"Et si les cyclistes avaient raison de ne pas s’arrêter aux stops ?" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/84830

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

Kyoto, Fall 2025 🍂

"Being Anti-Trump is probably illegal" 3 minutes on things that have happened in America over the weekend, concentrating on violating Democratic norms. youtu.be/40OBi4acYYI

"In 1887, the French railways unilaterally decided to move every clock in every railway station 5 minutes behind Paris time. Meanwhile, the clocks outside the stations remained untouched. So why on earth (or at least, in France) would you do that?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELr... #soFrench

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

"Les maths à la rescousse de l’intelligence artificielle" www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... "Si les potentialités des IA en mathématiques ne cessent de croître, celles-ci continuent d’avoir besoin de cette discipline pour améliorer leurs performances"

"In the 1940s, when the French mathematician Jacques Hadamard asked good mathematicians how they came up with solutions to hard problems, they nearly universally answered that they didn’t think in words; neither did they think in images or equations" www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-t...

Kyūshū Island, Fall 2025

Himeji (姫路市), Fall 2025

In less than two weeks, the graduate course “Global Mathematics Lecture IV” at Kyoto University will begin, consisting of five lectures. The course will be largely based on this book though lecture notes will also be distributed link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?" asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-origin...

"Sexual selection drives sex difference in adult life expectancy across mammals and birds" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Kaamran Hafeez, kaamranhafeez.com/product/i-do... “I don’t get it. We had all those meetings”

"Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet?" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Joe Dator: The Centaur Scale attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2025/10/joe-...

"La parité, comme condition d'équilibre stable non dégénéré" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/84076

"A Classic Graphic Reveals Nature’s Most Efficient Traveler" www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu... (spoiler: human on bicycle)

"Does the news reflect what we die from?" ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

"How far did the horizons of our first ancestors extend? In the furthest past, even the nearest ridge of hills might then have disclosed a sight no human eyes had ever seen, and every river crossed was a ford into the unknown" www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/10/m...

Kyoto, Fall 2025

"Class: A Guide Through the American Status System," www.thepsmiths.com/p/joint-revi...

"After 30 years of clicking, scrolling, and optimizing pixels, websites are becoming obsolete. LLM agents will read and act for us, ending search engines, blue links, and traditional websites." www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/chatgpt-ki...

"How did we get to this place, where mirror realities have replaced shared facts? The answer has something to do with the use of algorithms to personalize social media feeds" www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Nara, Fall 2025

One of my graph has just entered the "best" section of the r-graph-gallery.com with a tutorial. Featuring a waffle chart for time series, where the subtitle serves as a colorful legend. Thanks a lot to @yan-holtz.bsky.social and @soeundataviz.bsky.social for adding it! #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025 (architecture)

calameo.com/read/0011885826077a81e1832 😍 ou cartographier le risque inondation

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025

Kyoto, by night, Fall 2025

"Facing Up to the Democratic Recession" www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/fac... via time.com/7321529/demo...

Remote work, optimized

Kyoto, Fall,

Kyoto, Fall, botanical garden

Kyoto, Fall, botanical garden

Kyoto, Fall, botanical garden

"Paysage mathématique" kits.math.cnrs.fr/node/213 "Cette illustration éclaire la diversité des mathématiques, et leurs liens avec notre environnement. L'esthétique enfantine de l'image est un choix délibéré pour attirer l'attention d'un large public" #KitsMathématiques

Walt Disney, 2025

Kyoto, Fall 2025

The true size of Africa www.reuters.com/graphics/AFR...

"Have we been measuring mountains all wrong?" www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/ar...

"Comment les polémiques de ces dernières années ont épuisé les universitaires" www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic... "au point de créer un climat d’usure et d’autocensure dans les campus et les laboratoires" (sur tous les sujets, les chercheurs sont attaqués... de manière non constructive et puérile)

Kyoto, summer 2025, Kurama (鞍馬寺)

Kyoto 京都, summer 2025, Chôyô no sekku (重陽の節句) 上賀茂神社 烏相撲

Kyoto 京都, summer 2025

"Classer, comparer, assurer" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/83252