- https://medium.com/@leonidtiokhin/honest-signaling-in-academic-publishing-2de253b50ae5 the journal process is bad? Time for some game theory!
- https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows — Seems that there are no actual instances of people saying a murder of crows to refer to a flock of crows
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_taboo “The naming taboo of the state (国讳; 國諱) discouraged the use of the emperor’s given name and those of his ancestors… The custom of naming taboo had a built-in contradiction: without knowing what the emperors’ names were, one could hardly be expected to avoid them”
- Counting should start at zero: https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1314634810539814914
- See also this argument, which I think could be excellent for teaching https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/08/indices-point-between-elements/
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I belong to a Facebook group (about crows, ravens, etc.) where everybody seems (at least in their posts) to use “murder” (including for puns, like “attempted murder” to photos of some a few crows).
Very interesting. So, there may be no historical instances, but modern ones