Phalanxes

Bayes’ theorem in plain English:

You don’t have to be right.
You just have to be willing to update your beliefs when new evidence appears.
Most arguments happen because people either never update… or change their minds based on one headline.

Rational thinking isn’t black vs white.

It’s adjusting confidence as better evidence comes in.

The best science images of 2025 — Nature’s picks The Sun’s fiery surface, a tattooed tardigrade, rare red lightning and more.

Giving a voice to animals: Laos’s national herpetologist on her day-to-day Somphouthone Phimmachak studies amphibians and reptiles as one of the country’s few conservation researchers.

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