by Len Fisher | 16 Aug 2016 | Stray Thoughts
In the days when I was an enthusiast for competition bridge, I read a book by the British writer Victor Mollo which featured a character called The Hideous Hog. One sentence from that book, describing the Hog’s excuse for making a mistake, has always stuck in my mind... 
by Len Fisher | 4 Jun 2015 | Game Theory & You: Media and Writing, Mini Stories from Science, News
Scientists at the University of Virginia have found a previously unsuspected network of lymphatic vessels connecting the brain directly to the immune system (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14432.html). Why is this so important? For a...