tag: MentalModels

Taft weeping over his closest friend in 1912, a friendship breaking apart at the Royal Statistical Society in 1935, and two statisticians whose falling out never got the ending anyone expects.

The Mona Lisa burning in Glass Onion's finale, the napkin burned just before it, and why four witnesses were never enough to overturn Miles's story.

An afternoon at an English research station, a story statisticians have retold for a century, and the woman most versions of it never bother to name.

A mathematician too weak for real work after brain surgery, dealing himself hand after hand of solitaire, and a why-ladder that keeps closing on the same two answers.

A king and his identical twin, one crowned and one masked, and one fixed human need read into five different frameworks across a century.

A reality TV table flip, and the exact heart-rate threshold at which the part of the brain running self-presentation goes offline, camera or no camera.

A look at how mental models work as both reasoning tools and a test for which favorite questions can accept an answer at all.