2021-12-17

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NBC News x Bigfoot Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love using deepdreamgenerator.com
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/boris-johnson-conservative-party-uk-election-north-shropshire-rcna9113

Dec. 17, 2021, 8:33 AM EST
By Reuters
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party on Friday lost control of a parliamentary seat they have dominated for nearly 200 years, in a shock election result seen as a voter backlash against a British leader beset by crises and scandal. The centrist Liberal Democrats won the North Shropshire seat by nearly 6,000 votes, overturning a 23,000 vote Conservative majority from 2019 with a huge swing.

https://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/why-we-cant-rule-out-bigfoot
Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot | August 7, 2014
How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.
By Carl Zimmer Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love
I recently got an email from an anthropologist commenting on a new report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The topic of that report was Bigfoot—or rather, a genetic analysis of hairs that people over the years have claimed belong to a giant, hairy, unidentified primate.