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I saw this piece from Walt Hickey, who puts together Significant Digits for the Fivethirtyeight website. I laughed out loud, and had to read it to Erik, it was so clever. Here goes.

“Three months ago, Inky, an octopus being detained at a holding facility in New Zealand calling itself the National Aquarium, mounted a daring escape to freedom that involved breaking free of his enclosure, dragging his body along the floor, and exiting to the ocean through a six-inch drain. The details of how the prisoner of conscience — who was held without trial for two years on evidence of his affiliation with the cephalopod sect of the Mollusca phylum — escaped are only now coming to light. Worth noting is that octopi are vastly intelligent and capable of memory, and I can only assume that Inky is radicalizing his brothers-in-multiple-arms for the coming war.” [The Washington Post]

Don’t you just love it? A nod to Walt Hickey of Fivethirtyeight.com for his clever take on an otherwise pedestrian piece.