Well. I'm having a bit of a sense of humour failure about it, tbh.
What is the point of paying money for somebody to teach you stuff wrongly when books, blogs, friends and/or ChatGPT can teach it correctly?
Not ok. 😡

That is so funny.

Is her show notionally her interviewing other people? I really can't tell. She kind of asks a question but then carries on talking for ages.

Good man for wearing his Goretex in an official photo! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

A relic of St Anna of Lapwood?

The Cobbe collection, right? I stayed in that house once, guest of the Cobbe family, incl. father who had collected all that. After dinner, he played a load of them & talked about their history. Really magical - and bizarre.

Can we see it, before it burned?

Well: the Nobel Prizes are awarded this week, right?
I know the reason, but it is weird that Stockholm invites all these influential people round precisely when the days are shortest & coldest. Should be in June when it's all lovely!

Wow! That's fabulous.

That is hilarious. Kind of brilliant (social norming girls being plumbers) but also children's puzzles based on getting beers - ? 🫣🤣

You mean Leicester? 🤣

And now there's a fire alarm so we've had to abandon our non-existent lecture!

Well, I have. It's always surprising to me, how slowly many people leave a possibility-burning building!
I am out of there pronto!!

4/ Thanks to @ananyo.bsky.social for the invitation to the London Inst of Mathematical Sciences🤜🤛

*No claims for originality in the "stand in front of some scary maths" routine here ;-)

3/ Also, I then raised this particular "charity visit" on Monday in a French conversation. Note to self: try not to discuss string theory in French! - bit tricky.
Though I did have a decent discussion last year in French about game theory... 🫣

2/ It was used last year to invoke outrage at how much some of them earn: in fact, most of the best well-paid "charity workers" are investment managers at Wellcome: some of the most successful investors on Earth, all of the proceeds going into, you know, developing Covid vaccines and so on...