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1. 5 months ago on Adam@Home

   “The Ugly Duckling” is a famous Andersen’s fairy tale. I can’t put a link here, and I don’t want to spoil the story, but if you read the plot on Wikipedia, it’ll all make sense..

2. about 1 year ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Neat strategy @ChristineMurphy, I pull my hat, and will strive to follow in your footsteps..

3. about 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I can’t help but wonder, what’s the overall shape of Wise [banned] on the Hill’s hill?

4. over 1 year ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Took me a bit of time to remember where I’d heard of Limburger recently.. The 2006 Ig Nobel in biology was actually awarded to a group of researchers “for showing that the female malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae is attracted equally to the smell of limburger cheese and to the smell of human feet.” (https://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2006)

5. over 1 year ago on Non Sequitur

   To which I’d like to add, rodents, lagomorphs, and primates are closely related (they form a clade, the Euarchontoglires, also called Supraprimates)..

6. over 1 year ago on Pearls Before Swine

   What’s wrong with calories?

7. over 1 year ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   I thought that was Snoopy’s doghouse..

8. over 1 year ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Great trick, but that needs a bit of logistics, like keeping a jar with some err.. kind of reptile brain in it to start with..

9. over 1 year ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

   Oh, we actually reached 8 billion about 3 months ago..

10. almost 2 years ago on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

    I’d add that R is both incredibly powerful and the messiest language I’ve ever seen..

    A rather long discussion about some of the horrors within: https://r4stats.com/articles/why-r-is-hard-to-learn/