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I've literally just started replaying/rereading these with my 9yo son. It's been eye opening.

A book that allows you to _do things_ is finally a challenge to the allure of the tablet and the Switch.


Don't forget about Pop-up books and Where's Waldo!


Perhaps we'll break the curse of the iPad babies yet


YouTube music being included effectively replaces an additional music streaming service. From that perspective the family oriented plans in particular carry a lot of value.


My gripe with Youtube Music is that the bitrate quality of their music is lower than Tidal or even Spotify. YTM audio files that are actually on Youtube will only stream in 128kbps.


I’m surprised to hear that. I just switched from Spotify to Youtube Music and found the audio quality to be way better, even though I had Spotify set to high.


This tracks with my career - highly goal oriented and highly stressful until I sacked it all off for a less intense, more code-focused role a couple of years ago.

What I will say is that the previous decade of goal-driven learning has given me a broad skill set that makes it a lot easier to follow my instincts to success.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnacle_goose_myth

From our late scientific-era perspective it's really difficult to appreciate how badly intuitive understanding of cause and effect can let us down.


It is possible that people knew that animals flew South for winter and just become unknowable. But then scholars tried to apply a new conceptual framework to that. Asking the question was a step forward, even if the hypothesised answer was wrong. Its basically quackary with good intentions. And I expect some people knew all along that birds flew South but lacked the words or the influence to wrap that in an abstract concept that would be taken seriously.


Maybe honkery?


and spontaneous generation before that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_generation


It wasn’t even accepted that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs until early 1990s


Erm, the evidence for an event that happened 60+ mio years ago and the evidence for an event happening every year that you can watch in real time now is maybe not quite comparable?


Bird migrations aren't that easy to observe with 1822 tech either. It's not like they could stick a GPS recorder on a bird, or mark a bird and follow it in a car. You can make local observations (many birds fly overhead, heading South-East) but with how difficult travel was it's not trivial to piece that together to the conclusion that birds travel from Europe all the way to Africa


Or you could have talked to people who travel.