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Kaiser Fung's blog covers data visualisation critique, statistics and analysis of charts and studies, often dissecting flawed graphics and reproducing published results. Each issue is a focused, carefully reasoned essay with worked numbers that teach readers how to evaluate data claims.
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Weekly Spanish-language essays that use historical figures and ideas to explore learning, long-term thinking and how we understand the world. Each issue accompanies a podcast and tells a story before unpacking a concept such as pace layers, causal reasoning or deliberate practice.
Experimental History is a newsletter by a writer who examines claims about society, economics, and science with a data-driven, skeptical eye, debunking popular narratives like AI-driven mass unemployment and the loneliness epidemic. Readers get clear explanations of statistical pitfalls, historical context, and updates on the author's book about how scientific discovery works.
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