Aenna comments on Hong Kong election: ballot papers outnumbered voter turnout in at least 5 polling stations. Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas : science.
The Banach-Tarski non-Paradox. For some reason, lately I've been seeing a bunch of mentions of Banach Tarski.
B-T is a fascinating case of both how counter-intuitive math can be, and also how profoundly people can misunderstand things. For those who aren't familiar, Banach-Tarski refers to a topological/measure theory paradox. There are several variations on it, all of which are equivalent. The simplest one is this: Suppose you have a sphere. You can take that sphere, and slice it into a finite number of pieces. RangeVoting.org - Center for Range Voting - front page. A Dialog with a Madman. Wiki: TheSimpleTruth. This essay is meant to restore a naive view of truth.
Someone says to you: "My miracle snake oil can rid you of lung cancer in just three weeks. " You reply: "Didn't a clinical study show this claim to be untrue? " The one returns: "This notion of 'truth' is quite naive; what do you mean by 'true'? " Many people, so questioned, don't know how to answer in exquisitely rigorous detail. Www.liarsforjesus.com/downloads/LFJ_FINAL.pdf.
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.