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Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s

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What you are seeing laid out on the table is the monthly food ration per Polish citizen in the early to mid-1980s. This seemingly modest assortment of goods, meticulously allocated through a compleā€¦

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Rational Ritual: Why everyone needs to know what everyone knows (2020)

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This Week's Book: "Rational Ritual": Why Everyone Needs To Know What Everyone Knows.

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Approximate functions by using Taylor series and rational functions

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The post Approximate functions by using Taylor series and rational functions appeared first on SAS Blogs. This article demonstrates two general approximation techniques that are often used in numerical analysis: the Taylor [.]

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Canned food went from military rations to fancy appetizers

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THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEMBER 11, 2023, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURAā€™S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE.

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The impossibility of rationally analyzing partisan news

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This is a response to Thinking About Filtered Evidence Is (Very!) Hard that I thought deserved to be its own post. ā€¦

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Rational Magic

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Rational Dress Society

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