A batch of the best highlights from what Izzy's read, .
For example, in a court of law the starting assumption, or null hypothesis, is that the defendant is innocent. The job of the prosecution is to persuade the judge or jury to reject that assumption and accept the alternative hypothesis, which is that the defendant is guilty.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
I hope you noticed the difference between this sumac and the poisonous one. Only one of them is red.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Our landscapes are changing in a cruel and ironic way: they’re becoming less permeable to wildlife at the precise moment animals need to move most. As our climate warms, beings large and small will be forced to relocate, either north or upslope, to remain within their “thermal envelope,” the band of temperatures in which they evolved.