Had to do a double take this morning, like surely not?

Love the new plans for the daycare center. Space for 200 kids, eh? Pretty impressive! Oh, how many parking spots should we add? Well, let’s see, we couldn’t need more than... eight, right? You’re right, you’re right, make it seven.

Are people bad randomizers in general, or only in some contexts? In our new paper, now in press at Cognition, we found that 'socializing' randomization — in this case by pitting people against each other in a live game of Battleship — dramatically improved randomization behavior 👇🏼

It’s an older reference, sir, but it checks out.

I love that no IRB today would approve this study but if I say it’s for entertainment and film it, it’s all good 🤙

Another plausible hypothesis.

Have we considered that the baby shoes, never worn were just an impractical gift from the in-laws?

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There’s something quite moving about seeing people as they were — over a hundred years ago — in all their color and subtlety. People in the past are just people, in the past.

Here are a couple more photos from the same shoot in 1913. These were taken by English engineer Mervyn O’Gorman of his daughter, Christina, on the shores of Dorset.

This is a real photo from 1913. It hasn’t been colorized. It was made using a technique called the Autochrome Lumière which captured true color using microscopic dyed starch grains as color filters, decades before color film existed. Pretty incredible, no? More below 👇