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On this day (11 April) in 1727, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion (BWV 244b) was performed for the first time at the Thomaskirche (Church of St. Thomas; see here), a Lutheran church in Leipzig (Electorate of Saxony).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

What a time to be alive! If you would like to watch today’s solar eclipse virtually, NASA has a great option; hat tip: Dr Jamie Rodriguez: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/. Also, as it happens, today (April 8) is the 50th anniversary of Hank … Continue reading →

Named after famed game theorist Anatol Rapoport (pictured below), here are his four rules: Bravo! PS: I discovered Rapoport’s rules in part six of this fascinating blog post by Dr Eiko Fried titled “Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia”.

See here (hat tip: Alex Tabarrok), and the video below (in Spanish):

(Not to be confused with the Shibuya incident in Jujutsu Kaisen (呪 (じゅ) 術 (じゅつ) 廻 (かい) 戦 (せん)), a manga written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.) Via Wikipedia, links in the original: “The Shibuya incident (渋谷事件, Shibuya jiken) was a … Continue reading →