the fence
Have you ever emailed something to yourself for safekeeping, received the email notification, thought ‘Ah, an email’, before realising it’s just the very email that you sent a second before?
pierre agostini (physics, 2023)
Don’t think I ever did.
anthony leggett (physics, 2003)
No (but I’ve done many similar things).
angus deaton (economics, 2015)
Perhaps. We were not evolved to deal with email.
paul milgrom (economics, 2020)
No. I do occasionally email things among my accounts, but I have a well-organised Mac file system that lets me find the things I’m searching for with great reliability.
Editors’ note: Prof Frances Arnold (chemistry, 2018) remains the only Nobelist to have admitted to this folly.
tf
Without looking it up: is your father’s first cousin your second cousin or your first cousin once removed?
pierre agostini
I guess second cousin.
