Thom Eagle

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Puzzle #990
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Puzzle #989
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"John Prescott would be loving this"

A person dressed in a horse skull and sheet as the mari lwyd. Unknown photographer.

'2026 is the year of the horse.'
The horse:

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Puzzle #988
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I'm a sommelier and was trained to open a bottle of champagne silently. They taught us that it should be "as quiet as a lady's fart." Fuck that. I love the sound of a loud bottle pop so I open it as loudly as I can.

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Puzzle #986
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(sea monster bio)

You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

Forever mad that Placebo robbed the world of the greatest ever tribute band name for The Cure

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

General Woundwort

Howling at that photo of Andrew after he got arrested looking the absolute spit of General Woundwort from Watership Down.

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.

main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

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Wordle 1,707 4/6

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Come, Sir Andrew, there’s no remedy

The idea that anyone did not know about Epstein's conviction as a sex abuser is absurd. Some people spurned his social approaches. Having been invited in 2010 to an Epstein dinner with Woody Allen and then Prince Andrew in New York, the magazine editor, Tina Brown, replied: "What the fuck is this...? The paedophile's ball?" Brown's reaction should have been everyone's. So should that of Melinda Gates, the now ex-wife of Bill Gates, who stepped into Epstein's home once and immediately regretted it.

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