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Miriam Griffiths
A Little Help...
27 November 2024
Perhaps more "was once kinda good and then someone added AI"? I'm getting very fed up of the amount ...
Natalie
A Mysterious Hole...
26 November 2024
Oh my! I cannot tell what the hole's size is, but I expect someone is hungry and may be going for ea...
Katrin
Very Old Spindle Whorls?
25 November 2024
Yes, the weight is another thing - though there are some very, very lightweight spindles that were a...
Katrin
A Little Help...
25 November 2024
Ah well. I guess that is another case of "sounds too good to be true" then...
Miriam Griffiths
Very Old Spindle Whorls?
22 November 2024
Agree with you that it comes under the category of "quite hypothetical". If the finds were from a cu...
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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