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And thus do we of reason and of reachWith windlasses and with assays of biasBy indirections find directions out. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, Act I, scene ii Windlasses—think winches, particle accelerators, seeing as one is seen—succeed on the principle that a right hook generates more punch than a left jab. Angular momentum—think the earth orbiting the sun, swinging a pale of water like a Ferris wheel, leaning into a sharp turn on a bike—accelerates not through … Continue reading Assays of Bias