Our grand expedition through the realms of PoCS and CocoNuTs concludes with some general thoughts on stories and us, homo narrativus. We argue for why conspiracy theories and mistruths and simply different views so readily appear---the infinity of adjacent stories---and we look at some authors who "got caught" with false memoirs. We talk about Story Wars, the American Dream, and the evident need for societal narrativies to rest on real possibilities. We come to a science of stories with a core goal of finding the taxonomy of human stories. It's all about life and death, from bare survival to flourishing, all wrapped around hatchings, matchings, and dispatchings.

Our new paper on the first link network of Wikipedia and how all roads lead to philosophy. Data whispers in our ear. We ponder the origins of sixties and twenty-fours and three hundred and sixties in our measurements of time and angle and more. Highly composite numbers and their loftier companions, Babylonian sexigesimal number system, and then some Pythonesque entries into the Imperial system. Also: the Nelson.

We conclude with a seventeen supercut. Here's a tweet connecting to the start.

2016/05/03

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