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Guest - Aislinn Dyestuff Citizen Science.
09 October 2026
This is a great project. I look forward to the results. Thanks for letting us know.
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09 October 2026
Looks delicious!
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
Guest - Beatrix Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin Sprang Discussion
15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...

Spurious Correlations.

You might have heard about the interesting fact that the decline in the number of births looks similar like the decline in the number of storks... and as every legend-savvy German knows, it's the stork that brings the babies. So. No more storks, no more babies, right?

Just that correlation is not causation. Nicest and funniest bit about that that I know is this XKCD:

And if you're amused by spurious correlations, there's a whole website about this that you might enjoy!  

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More sunscreen? Here's why.
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