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Charles Darwin’s 165-year-old theory about how fish end up in isolated ponds has finally been proven! Researchers have demonstrated that waterbirds can indeed transport aquatic life between water bodies - effectively fish can withstand air exposure. Further to this, here I show, the duration of air exposure doesn’t affect the eggs' hatching timeline.

Solution to #238 “Can you retrace the chess knight’s path?” puzzle.

The banana index measures greenhouse-gas emissions of foods relative to the banana. But it overlooks other crucial environmental factors like land use, prompting a reevaluation of its findings to include this essential dimension.

Solution to #224 “Can you find the ring inside the Russian dolls?” puzzle.

Puzzle #212 from the New Scientist is: “Why isn’t the sound working?”, Mum muttered as she hit the mute key on the remote control. “You’ve probably got the wrong remote, Mum”, Sam said.

Solution to #204 “Can you work out what number my son thought of?” puzzle.

The article by Matsuo et al. (2019) appeared in my newsletter. It is another attempt to sell deep-learning (DL) as a promising alternative to traditional survival analysis. To this end, they compare the performance of their DL model to Cox proportional hazard regression (CPH) when predicting survival for women with newly diagnosed cervical cancer.

QWERTY has become the dominant keyboard standard, used by billions of people every day. The basic QWERTY form was developed in 1873 and was based around four rows with eleven characters in each row.

The most common discussion around Earth concerns how we are shaping our planet. Origins is all about “how the Earth made us”. Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History, Lewis Dartnell, Vintage Publishing (2020)

Standard survival data measure the time span from some time origin until the occurrence of the event of interest. In the interpretation of results of survival analyses, competing risks can be an important problem.