My favourite is Richard Todd who participated in the assault on Pegasus Bridge on D-Day and then went on to play the commander of that mission (Major Howard) in The Longest Day. (View Post)

It's also a misreading of an exponential graph. Yes they visually bunch somewhat, but there are two *orders of magnitude* between Norway and Belgium. The US is roughly double the UK. It is obfus… (View Post)

The more this goes on, the more I wish the political journalists and commentators would get out of the way and let the science journalists take over the reins for a while. Not because the politics of… (View Post)

But just looking at proxies for economic activity, Sweden has shut down "quite a lot", the UK "really quite a lot" and NZ "completely". NZ's approach seems best sui… (View Post)

Denmark is doing roughly as well as the South West of England, by number of cases and deaths. They have similar populations, and similar population densities. Studying what happened in Germany, thoug… (View Post)