This week, we’ve twice the storytelling enjoyable for you: two Cautionary Tales shorts, beforehand solely accessible to Pushkin+ subscribers.
A Monkey for Mayor: It was speculated to be a publicity stunt, however when the person who dressed as Hartlepool United’s monkey mascot stood in a mayoral election… he gained. Precise politicians predicted catastrophe – since 1000’s of staff and tens of millions of {dollars} have been now within the palms of an entire novice.
However H’Angus the Monkey proved to be a more practical chief than anybody had predicted, elevating attention-grabbing questions on how we choose one of the best individuals to be our managers and mayors.
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The principle sources on the Hartlepool elections have been modern experiences from The Instances, The Guardian and the BBC.
On random promotions, see In Reward of Random Promotions and Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo The Peter precept revisited: A computational research Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Purposes,
Quantity 389, Subject 3, 2010.
A Screw Unfastened At 17,000 Toes: Are you able to inform the distinction between an A211-7D bolt and an A211-8C? Nicely, nor might the drained and burdened engineer becoming a cockpit windshield to Flight 5390. The distinction is tiny, however the penalties of muddling them up – which performed out at 17,000 ft – have been dramatic.
Such design flaws are frequent — and end in much more free plane home windows than you’ll ever think about.
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The perfect supply on Upkeep Man and his travails is Matt Parker’s great ebook Humble Pi; the official accident report (pdf) can also be value studying.
The terrifying aftermath was described in modern experiences from the Sunday Mercury, The Every day Telegraph, The Instances, The New York Instances and the Monetary Instances.
