One common trope in fiction over the decades has been someone putting a file in a cake—or other baked good—that then is passed onto someone in prison to help them escape. As the website TV Tropes explains: The stereotypical way to smuggle escape tools into a prison is by hiding them in a cake and giving them to the prisoner. Most often a nail file is hidden in the cake. Granted, most of the time I have seen this trope played out it was with a larger “rasp” file. But that minor quibble...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Reading Time: 2 minutes The widespread swapping of prisoners between Western nations and Russia has raised a great deal of questions. One of the biggest is what happens next| USA Daily Standard
Charles Shelton was shot down during Vietnam and taken prisoner. Nobody knows what happened next. What happened to “the last POW of Vietnam”?| Historic Mysteries
Bayesianism is one of the more popular frameworks in cognitive science. Alongside other similar probalistic models of cognition, it is highly encouraged in the cognitive sciences (Chater, Tenenbaum, & Yuille, 2006). To summarize Bayesianism far too succinctly: it views the human mind as full of beliefs that we view as true with some subjective probability. […]| Theory, Evolution, and Games Group
Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an onli…| Zander Nethercutt
