Heavily unrelated social science trivia

Some unrelated trivia, for fans of social science:

1. Tomorrow is the last day (officially speaking) of the war in Northern Ireland. Operation Banner is the British Army’s longest running operation at 38 years. (One of my uncle’s served as a CO in N.I.).

2. Scientific concept of the day: you have to first create a hypothesis, before you can prove it.

The value of sync

I came across this quote by chance, but helps me convey the harnessing of the value of being in ‘sync’:

“It’s like pushing someone on a swing,” Cheng said. “If you push in synch with the upswing, the swing will go higher. That’s the same as being in phase.”