I am 34 33 32 now. Here is a fun fact: I’m older than half of the world’s population. Actually, it turns out that all dogs alive when I was born are, according to Wikipedia, long gone. I am by most sensible metrics not young anymore. Maybe I spend a disproportionate amount of time thinking […]
Category: life
The Pret Coffee Subscription
When I am in London, I get ~95% of my coffee from Pret a Manger. Why? Because I have the Pret Coffee Subscription. In brief, I can get up to five units a day for £25 a month (coffee, tea, hot chocolate, smoothie, etc.). This is, at least in my case, very cheap. How is […]
Observationer relateret til COVID-19 #5
Oprindelse. Jeg har tidligere skrevet om, hvorvidt ‘lab leak’ hypotesen kan betegnes som en konspirationsteori på linje med andre konspirationsteorier (noget som selv flere videnskabelige publikationer har gjort). I bogen Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, skrevet af Alina Chan og Matt Ridley, gøres det klart, at vi nok aldrig får en smoking […]
Ten ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
In The Guardian, there is an article with a list of 100 ways to slightly improve your life (without really trying). I do not agree with all of them (for various reasons), so I decided to pick out the ten I believe provide the greatest marginal gain: Get the lighting right: turn off the overhead […]
The post with answers to the book of questions
I was reading The Book of Questions (the revised and updated 2013 edition) by Gregory Stock and I decided to answer all of the questions. Here they are – in the order the questions are asked in the book. Of course, I can’t provide the questions in this post but I have formulated the answers […]