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“Nightingale and Farr concluded that poor sanitation had caused many of the deaths in the Crimean War hospitals, and that most military and medical professionals had failed to learn this lesson. The problem was much bigger than one war: it was an ongoing public health disaster in barracks, civilian hospitals and beyond. The pair began to campaign for better public health measures, tighter laws on hygiene in rented properties, and improvements to sanitation in barracks and hospitals across the country.”
― Tim Harford, How to Make the World Add Up : Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

“You do not get a job or funding in this system by producing important scholarship that is productive and useful to the real world, but by furthering the agenda of the funders.”
― Saifedean Ammous, The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

“The science writer Brian Christian had an answer: computers are able to imitate humans not because the computers are such accomplished conversationalists, but because we humans are so robotic.”
― Tim Harford, Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World

“the stage of bone growth in individuals whose ages at death were known, anthropologists were able to come up with”
― Steve Jackson, No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators