Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

This is brilliant and I can't believe it has taken me over a decade to hear about it. Great exposition by Michael Crichton.Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia...

Getty image embedding

Sensible move from Getty: acknowledging that its images are available without watermark across the internet and owning the source and to some extent usage of them. Slightly fiddly to find the embeddable images (use search within this search) but once you are there...

Churchill would be proud

Between one third and one half of the business class passengers on this 09:40 flight to Seoul have opted for champagne. Hard core, but admirable.