{"id":1779,"date":"2023-08-28T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?page_id=1779"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:00:35","slug":"blog-a-collection-of-all-the-articles-ive-published-over-the-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?page_id=1779","title":{"rendered":"Blog &#8211; a collection of some of the articles I&#8217;ve published over the years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The text of some of my articles is linked below, but you can access all my new writing on my substack<\/p>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kityates.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border: 1px solid #EEE; background: white\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>08\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1789\">Here\u2019s why the new \u2018girl math\u2019 trend just doesn\u2019t add up<\/a><br>The new splurge now, justify the cost later craze has taken social media by storm. Good, harmless fun? Not by my calculations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>08\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1786\">How Do Psychic Predictions Work? I Visited One To Find Out<\/a><br>Playing the psychic game \u2013 how to spot the techniques being used on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>08\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1793\">How coin tosses can lead to better decisions<\/a><br>Our modern lives can often leave us overwhelmed with choice \u2013 so might it make sense to let an external agent help us to make difficult decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>07\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1802\">Here\u2019s what we can do to prepare for the next pandemic<\/a><br>As the Covid inquiry heats up, what can the UK do to ready itself for future disasters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>07\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1805\">What your name really means and how it can affect your life<\/a><br>Is it a coincidence that a man with the surname Bolt is the fastest man alive? Is there a link between what we call ourselves and what we do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>07\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1810\">Why you\u2019ve probably been using sunscreen all wrong your whole life<\/a><br>What exactly does SPF mean, and how does it help you beat the heat? 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The reality is quite different<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>03\/2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1849\">Boris Johnson\u2019s massive maths mistake over Covid deaths is an embarrassment<\/a><br>At a time when other world leaders were going on television and explaining important scientific concepts to the masses, we endured a prime minister who was making basic mathematical errors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>01\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kityates.com\/?p=1771\">Why mathematicians sometimes get Covid projections wrong<\/a><br>Modelling may not be a crystal ball, but it remains the best tool we have to predict the future<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The text of some of my articles is linked below, but you can access all my new writing on my substack 2023 08\/2023 &#8211; Here\u2019s why the new \u2018girl math\u2019 trend just doesn\u2019t add upThe new splurge now, justify the cost later craze has taken social media by storm. 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