BENFORD’S LAW (2) In my previous post (Benford’s Law – 1), I footnoted the following: “Confusingly, there is another Benford’s Law, propounded in 1980 by US physicist Gregory Benford. It states: “Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”. (Gregory) Benford’s “Law” is an […]
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Benford’s Law (1) In any given set of large (i.e. spanning several orders of magnitude) random numbers, one might expect that all the digits from 1 to 9 should appear, statistically, at each position in the number sequence around 11% (100/9) of the time[1]. In 1881 Canadian […]
Read more →ow odd it is that anyone should not see that all observations must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service.” - Charles Darwin. Speak to exploration geologists and you will find two opposing views about how to observe outcrop or drill […]
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The Ice Age Cometh – climate change explained in three graphs [1] So, geologists observe, a cycle Hath smaller cycles that on them prey And these have yet smaller ones to bite ‘em And so proceed ad infinitem Thus, every Era in its kind Repeats all those that […]
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This is fantastic and gripping story about the biggest mining scandal in history. It is told through the testimony of eyewitnesses linked by an intelligent and clear narrator. Aspects of the story are so bizarre that you might think it fiction, but it is all true. Presented […]
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This post is a review and summary of Phillipa Langley’s recent scholarly book, The Princes in the Tower: Solving History’s Greatest Cold Case (The History Press, 488p, 2023. ISBN 978 1 80399 542 7). “…one has always to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the […]
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The Wolf was a deadly enemy of Man and Horse. The Man could easily kill the Wolf with his spear, but he could never run fast enough to catch it. The Horse could outrun the Wolf but had no weapons. So Man and Horse made a tactical […]
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I have just come across a new word – saxicavous, so I look it up in that well-known source of Truth and concise definition – Wik Dictionary. To discover a bald definition: “boring rocks“. Wonderful! This is a word I have been looking for all my professional […]
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Beneath the canopy it is dark and gloomy on the forest floor, the air heavy ahead of late-afternoon rain. I am alone in a remote spot on a remote island in a remote corner of the Pacific. Three men appear from the trees behind me. They are […]
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