I was just there last year. I second the recommendation of the Oudegracht, and highly recommend taking a look at the Utrecht library and Museum Speelklok.

They are an absolute trip, aren't they?

The last time I tried some of their Variety Puzzles I was rather unimpressed by the difficulty of the puzzles. But it wasn't the premium version so can't say for certain.

Star Wars.

You claim to be against vacuosity, and yet all your posts are vacuous.

Well now I'm curious: what rational numbers can be represented as probabilities of a sum of dice exceeding a certain value?

I am extremely amused at finding this paper on Dominion strategy: scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rhum…

"You are happy" versus "Are you happy". English commonly uses VSO instead of SVO to denote questions.

Memory is strange sometimes. A week ago, a good friend of mine unexpectedly passed away. Today, I'm remembering a time years ago when I shared with her (a sharp-as-nails poli sci graduate student) some of the work of @ilaba, and how much she appreciated it.

You also missed that the second section you highlighted was about all illnesses with a cough, whereas the section after that was the one about specifically pertussis infections, and does show a marked reduction in infections in those who had the pertussis vaccine.

You missed the base death rate among other things. People naturally die from a variety of causes all the time. 5 deaths among 2781 participants over 2.5 years is way below the typical death rate in the US.

That's not true at all, in any aspect.

I have a truly marvelous counterexample that this tweet is too small to contain.

Fantastic

You've got those at OSU now too? I remember seeing them all over the George Mason campus when I was last there.

I often have students start by saying "This might be a dumb question..." and I leap in to say, "There are no dumb questions in math."