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Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.”

The Conversation

Fiscal headroom is a matter of guesswork

Brief letters: Economic obsession | Two-child benefit divide | Paddington stare | No Place | Word of the year

The Guardian - UK

“The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics

Along with punching out impressive drum parts, he brought Tolkien, Twain and Wilde to bear on the world of prog. Here are just 10 of his best moments

Louder

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Complicity in Israel's genocide 'asserted, not hidden', Gaza Tribunal told

International complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine is “asserted rather than hidden”, a leading legal expert has told a public tribunal…

The National (Scotland)

Empathy can take a toll – but 2 philosophers explain why we should see it as a strength

In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, billionaire and Trump megadonor Elon Musk offered his thoughts about what motivates political progressives to support immigration. In his view, the culprit was empathy, which he called “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.”

The Conversation

Resistance review – a captivating century of protest and photography

Turner Contemporary, MargateMarches, strikes and other acts of defiance covering causes from anti-fascism to the Iraq war are captured in compelling detail in an exhibition conceived by Steve McQueen

The Guardian - UK

From Earl of Devon to Duke of Norfolk: the hereditary peers set to lose place in Lords

Some of the 92 now about to lose their seats can trace their family’s presence in the Lords back to the middle ages

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NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Saturday, June 1 (game #356)

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

TechRadar

English philosophers thought they had sloughed off the dead weight of history, but history suggests otherwise

Nikhil Krishnan’s intriguing and charming history, A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, is organised around anecdotes rather than arguments. Krishnan is interested not only in “what people thought but what they were like”.

The Conversation

‘Can I just … rest?’: guilt, the four-day working week and what to do with the fifth day

As support for the four-day working week grows, we wrestle with the culture of achievement and busyness, and feelings of guilt and accountability

The Guardian - AU

Why Prince Harry’s book reminds me of DH Lawrence

The Guardian - UK

Can Democrats seize the momentum?

Headlines of the last two months should give Democrats a fighting chance in the midterms. Do they know how to win?

Salon

Wittgenstein tried to solve all the problems of philosophy in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – but he didn't quite succeed

How is it that false statements, such as “horses have eight legs”, can be just as meaningful as true statements, such as “horses have four legs”?

The Conversation

Private Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein review – sex and logic

Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher

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The great years of Bertrand Russell: the philosopher in his own words, 1967

This was the first and last time the Observer Magazine’s cover story was a philosopher’s autobiography. By Chris Hall

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