Pebbles, Vol. 44

1. When absence of evidence is evidence of absence (xkcd)

2. An attempt to answer the question, "What were Stanley Kubrick's favourite films?" (Nick Wrigley)

3. One more time: Changing football coaches seems to make no sense (on average, within the observed range) (Hannah Barnes)

4. Where does the phrase "I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords" come from?

5. Researching the effect of stop-and-frisk is really hard. (Benjamin Wallace-Wells)

6. Andrew Gelman on Axelrod's interpretive overreach concerning trench warfare and the multiple comparisons problem and expressing uncertainty.

7. Who guards the guardians? Cameras could. (Randall Stross)

8. "Slot machine sounds can manipulate players, researchers say" (Meerie Kim)