https://julienreszka.com/blog/figures/ Key statistics from Julien Reszka's blog posts en https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-need-to-be-messy/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-need-to-be-messy/og.png Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:23:00 GMT How much a single word inflated speed estimates. 'Smashed' versus 'contacted' — same crash, same witnesses, different memory. Source: Loftus & Palmer, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1974 https://julienreszka.com/blog/bend-under-pressure-not-under-nonsense/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/bend-under-pressure-not-under-nonsense/og.png Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:15:00 GMT Share of participants in Asch's conformity experiments who changed their answer at least once to match the group, even when the group was clearly wrong Source: Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments. https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-more-power-you-hold-the-more-you-owe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-more-power-you-hold-the-more-you-owe/og.png Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:33:00 GMT Years Anthony Fauci led NIAID while privately receiving emails flagging the virus may have been engineered, a concern he never disclosed publicly. Source: NIH records; BuzzFeed News FOIA release, 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-pasting-files-into-agent-prompts/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-pasting-files-into-agent-prompts/og.png Sun, 31 May 2026 15:23:00 GMT Agent reads O(n) lines from the raw file, O(k) from the audit CSV. k is bounded by your rule count; n grows with your data. Source: Computational complexity https://julienreszka.com/blog/rss-is-back-ai-agents-are-reading-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/rss-is-back-ai-agents-are-reading-it/og.png Sat, 30 May 2026 19:07:00 GMT Share of podcast episodes distributed via RSS, a protocol from 2002 that the $25B podcast industry never replaced Source: Apple Podcasts Connect; Podcast Standards Project https://julienreszka.com/blog/structure-is-what-makes-an-interview-actually-work/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/structure-is-what-makes-an-interview-actually-work/og.png Fri, 29 May 2026 16:47:00 GMT Predictive validity of structured versus unstructured interviews for job performance Source: Sackett, Zhang, Berry & Lievens, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2022 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-exit-route-determines-your-strategy/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-exit-route-determines-your-strategy/og.png Thu, 28 May 2026 05:17:00 GMT Share of successful US startup exits that are acquisitions, not IPOs Source: NVCA Yearbook, 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/they-re-required-to-tell-you-how-to-beat-them/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/they-re-required-to-tell-you-how-to-beat-them/og.png Wed, 27 May 2026 12:17:00 GMT US public companies required by the SEC to disclose material business risks annually in their 10-K filings Source: SEC Regulation S-K, Item 1A https://julienreszka.com/blog/know-when-to-stop-pivot-or-double-down/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/know-when-to-stop-pivot-or-double-down/og.png Tue, 26 May 2026 21:42:00 GMT High-growth startup failures caused by premature scaling, growing before comprehension and viability are validated Source: Startup Genome Report, 2012 https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-start-continue-is-a-brainstorm-not-a-retrospective/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/stop-start-continue-is-a-brainstorm-not-a-retrospective/og.png Mon, 25 May 2026 20:17:00 GMT Fewer unique ideas generated by brainstorming groups versus the same number of individuals working alone Source: Mullen, Johnson & Salas, Psychological Bulletin, 1991 https://julienreszka.com/blog/refactoring-is-procrastination-in-a-lab-coat/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/refactoring-is-procrastination-in-a-lab-coat/og.png Sun, 24 May 2026 18:33:00 GMT Developer time spent on technical debt rather than new features Source: CAST Research Labs, 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/solve-a-problem-people-admit-they-have/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/solve-a-problem-people-admit-they-have/og.png Sat, 23 May 2026 14:31:00 GMT Startups that fail due to 'no market need'. A significant fraction are solving real problems customers won't admit publicly, not absent ones. Source: CB Insights, The Top 12 Reasons Startups Fail, 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-make-the-buyer-look-good/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-make-the-buyer-look-good/og.png Tue, 19 May 2026 09:47:00 GMT Speed at which products with high social currency spread versus functionally identical alternatives Source: Berger, Contagious, 2013 https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-the-referral-into-the-product/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-the-referral-into-the-product/og.png Fri, 15 May 2026 07:33:00 GMT Dropbox user growth in 15 months after launching its referral programme Source: Drew Houston, Dropbox Blog, 2010 https://julienreszka.com/blog/if-you-can-t-describe-it-no-one-will-share-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/if-you-can-t-describe-it-no-one-will-share-it/og.png Mon, 11 May 2026 13:12:00 GMT Average number of brand exposures needed before a consumer remembers a message Source: Marketing Rule of Seven; Lant, 1985 https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-be-safe-to-recommend/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-product-should-be-safe-to-recommend/og.png Thu, 07 May 2026 08:54:00 GMT Consumers who trust recommendations from people they know above all other channels Source: Nielsen Global Trust in Advertising, 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/sticky-products-feel-personal/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/sticky-products-feel-personal/og.png Sun, 03 May 2026 12:36:00 GMT Share of Netflix content watched driven by its personalisation algorithm, not search or browsing Source: Netflix Technology Blog https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-cheapest-feature-is-the-one-you-don-t-build/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-cheapest-feature-is-the-one-you-don-t-build/og.png Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:15:00 GMT Software features that are rarely or never used Source: Standish Group, Chaos Report https://julienreszka.com/blog/anxiety-is-making-you-dumber/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/anxiety-is-making-you-dumber/og.png Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:03:00 GMT People globally affected by anxiety disorders Source: WHO https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-sleep-schedule-is-a-policy-document/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-sleep-schedule-is-a-policy-document/og.png Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:17:00 GMT Shortest average working week in Europe: the Netherlands Source: OECD https://julienreszka.com/blog/less-work-more-worry/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/less-work-more-worry/og.png Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:42:00 GMT Workers worldwide reporting significant stress daily at work Source: Gallup, 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-better-the-autopilot-the-worse-the-pilot/og.png Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:09:00 GMT Aviation accidents attributable to human factors Source: Boeing Statistical Summary https://julienreszka.com/blog/automation-takes-the-easy-jobs-and-leaves-you-the-hard-ones/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/automation-takes-the-easy-jobs-and-leaves-you-the-hard-ones/og.png Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:31:00 GMT Occupations with at least 30% of tasks technically automatable Source: McKinsey Global Institute https://julienreszka.com/blog/you-were-already-dependent-automation-makes-it-reliable/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/you-were-already-dependent-automation-makes-it-reliable/og.png Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:54:00 GMT AWS SLA uptime: 52 minutes of permitted downtime per year Source: AWS https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-future-of-work-is-getting-out-of-the-way/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-future-of-work-is-getting-out-of-the-way/og.png Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:23:00 GMT Reduction in Swedish road fatalities since Vision Zero launched in 1997 Source: Swedish Transport Agency https://julienreszka.com/blog/robots-create-more-jobs-than-they-kill/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/robots-create-more-jobs-than-they-kill/og.png Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:47:00 GMT Japan's unemployment rate alongside world-leading robot density Source: Statistics Bureau of Japan https://julienreszka.com/blog/google-has-no-idea-if-your-page-is-good/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/google-has-no-idea-if-your-page-is-good/og.png Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:38:00 GMT Clicks captured by the top Google result; page two gets less than 1% Source: Backlinko https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-quit-posting-on-instagram-for-my-mental-health/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-quit-posting-on-instagram-for-my-mental-health/og.png Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:12:00 GMT Difference in views between identical posts, same content, same time of day Source: Author's data; Adam Mosseri (Head of Instagram): reach shifts are driven by user behaviour he can't fully explain https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-with-what-s-already-there/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-with-what-s-already-there/og.png Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:23:00 GMT Airbnb's market cap, built from three air mattresses already sitting in a closet Source: Airbnb IPO, 2020 https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-for-what-won-t-change/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/build-for-what-won-t-change/og.png Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:17:00 GMT Amazon Prime subscribers, built on the bet that customers will always want lower prices, wider selection, faster delivery Source: Amazon Annual Report, 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/delete-it-before-you-optimize-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/delete-it-before-you-optimize-it/og.png Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:44:00 GMT Reduction in cost per kilogram to orbit: Space Shuttle vs SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable Source: NASA, SpaceX Commercial Crew Program https://julienreszka.com/blog/what-actually-works-for-dating-in-2026/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/what-actually-works-for-dating-in-2026/og.png Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:30:00 GMT Match Group annual revenue in 2023, earned entirely from users who are still searching, across Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid Source: Match Group Annual Report, 2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/webmcp-is-the-new-mobile-first/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/webmcp-is-the-new-mobile-first/og.png Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:17:00 GMT Year browser-native agentic AI via WebMCP became a plausible production architecture, not just a demo Source: Model Context Protocol specification, Anthropic, 2024; WebMCP project, 2025 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-only-policy-tool-that-cannot-be-gamed/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-only-policy-tool-that-cannot-be-gamed/og.png Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:22:00 GMT Approximate share of global activity a coordinated bloc must cover before leakage from unregulated jurisdictions becomes de minimis for global externalities Source: Hoel (1994); Carraro & Siniscalco (1993); IPCC AR6 Working Group III, 2022 https://julienreszka.com/blog/france-needs-45-years-to-grow-its-way-out/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/france-needs-45-years-to-grow-its-way-out/og.png Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:41:00 GMT Times more growth a country at 20% spending gains from a 1-point cut compared to a country at 50%, derived from the power law fit with alpha=1.5 Source: Derived from cross-country power law fit, World Bank data 2005-2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/government-size-has-no-sweet-spot/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/government-size-has-no-sweet-spot/og.png Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:17:00 GMT R-squared for the power law fit between government spending share and GDP growth across 113 countries (2005-2023). The quadratic Armey Curve fits at R2=0.39. Source: World Bank national accounts data, 2005-2023 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-web-is-not-a-safe-harbor-from-platform-control/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-web-is-not-a-safe-harbor-from-platform-control/og.png Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:45:00 GMT Year Apple first launched web app capabilities on iPhone, sixteen years before quietly removing them in EU markets under iOS 17.4 Source: Mashable, Apple looks to be killing web app capabilities, February 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/who-decided-europe-needed-replacing/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/who-decided-europe-needed-replacing/og.png Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:15:00 GMT Legal migrants per year that EU Commissioner Johansson said Europe needs to offset population decline Source: Ylva Johansson, EU Home Affairs Commissioner, January 8, 2024 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-math-sales-gurus-won-t-show-you/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-math-sales-gurus-won-t-show-you/og.png Sat, 03 Jun 2023 12:17:00 GMT Prospects needed at the top of a fully cold funnel (2.5% conversion, 3 steps) to close 1 deal per day. Add warm leads and the number drops dramatically. Source: Standard funnel model; conversion rate assumptions from industry benchmarks https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-risk-register-is-asking-the-wrong-question/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/your-risk-register-is-asking-the-wrong-question/og.png Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:17:00 GMT Share of strategic potential lost during execution due to misalignment between intent and action, measured across public sector organizations Source: Olivier & Schwella, International Journal of Public Leadership, 2018 https://julienreszka.com/blog/ai-will-soon-generate-video-as-easily-as-images/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/ai-will-soon-generate-video-as-easily-as-images/og.png Sat, 14 Aug 2021 11:08:00 GMT FID score achieved by guided diffusion on ImageNet 256x256 in 2021, beating the best GAN score of 3.87 for the first time Source: Dhariwal & Nichol, Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis, NeurIPS 2021 https://julienreszka.com/blog/when-everyone-around-you-goes-mad-stay-normal/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/when-everyone-around-you-goes-mad-stay-normal/og.png Tue, 04 May 2021 17:45:00 GMT Year Vaclav Havel wrote The Power of the Powerless, arguing that individuals can resist a system not by confronting it but by refusing to live within its lies Source: Havel, The Power of the Powerless, 1979 https://julienreszka.com/blog/mixture-of-experts-routing-was-called-a-stupid-idea/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/mixture-of-experts-routing-was-called-a-stupid-idea/og.png Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:47:00 GMT Number of experts used in the sparsely-gated MoE layer proposed by Shazeer et al. in 2017, which outperformed dense LSTM models at lower compute cost per token Source: Shazeer et al., Outrageously Large Neural Networks, ICLR 2017 https://julienreszka.com/blog/5-minutes-to-fill-2-hours-to-charge-evs-have-a-problem/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/5-minutes-to-fill-2-hours-to-charge-evs-have-a-problem/og.png Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:33:00 GMT How much longer it takes to charge an EV with a supercharger than to fill a petrol tank Source: Tesla Supercharger specs; typical petrol station fill time https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-wright-brothers-didn-t-learn-by-crashing/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-wright-brothers-didn-t-learn-by-crashing/og.png Sun, 29 Sep 2019 08:17:00 GMT Wing surface variations tested by the Wright brothers in their homemade wind tunnel between September and December 1901, before building a single aircraft Source: Jakab, Visions of a Flying Machine, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990 https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-was-banned-for-reading-sms-metadata-on-device/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-was-banned-for-reading-sms-metadata-on-device/og.png Fri, 24 May 2019 08:15:00 GMT Internet permissions requested by Love Score: the app had no network access and processed everything locally on the device Source: Love Score Android manifest, 2014 https://julienreszka.com/blog/video-won-the-web-most-sites-haven-t-noticed-yet/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/video-won-the-web-most-sites-haven-t-noticed-yet/og.png Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:22:00 GMT Share of the top 50 French websites (Alexa) where video is the core feature Source: Alexa Top Sites, France, 2019 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-decided-not-to-join-ycombinator/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-decided-not-to-join-ycombinator/og.png Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:33:00 GMT YCombinator portfolio companies by 2018, each shaped by a program culture visible in the forums before you apply Source: YCombinator, About page, 2018 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-joined-startup-school-to-build-the-trusted-map-of-events/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-joined-startup-school-to-build-the-trusted-map-of-events/og.png Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:17:00 GMT Events created on Eventbrite in 2018 alone, each needing someone to decide if it was real, with no shared authority model to make that call Source: Eventbrite S-1 filing, September 2018 https://julienreszka.com/blog/intelligence-as-a-nine-node-cycle-of-interpretation/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/intelligence-as-a-nine-node-cycle-of-interpretation/og.png Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:33:00 GMT Nodes in the cyclic intelligence model: three equivalent buffer spaces and six processing modules Source: Wiener, Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, MIT Press, 1948 https://julienreszka.com/blog/information-has-six-imperfections-and-none-can-be-eliminated/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/information-has-six-imperfections-and-none-can-be-eliminated/og.png Sat, 21 Oct 2017 09:47:00 GMT Forms of information imperfection: three corrupting input flows, three corrupting output flows Source: Shannon, A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Bell System Technical Journal, 1948 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-three-sovereignties-of-interpretive-power/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-three-sovereignties-of-interpretive-power/og.png Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:22:00 GMT Modes of interpretive sovereignty: theocratic (external authority), democratic (negotiated), autocratic (self-referential) Source: Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell, 1953 https://julienreszka.com/blog/grounding-is-a-governance-problem-not-a-data-problem/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/grounding-is-a-governance-problem-not-a-data-problem/og.png Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:33:00 GMT Year Harnad first formalized the symbol grounding problem, asking how symbols acquire meaning rather than just relational structure Source: Harnad, The Symbol Grounding Problem, Physica D, 1990 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-got-into-42-paris/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-got-into-42-paris/og.png Wed, 03 Aug 2016 12:46:00 GMT Duration of the 42 Piscine selection process, with no grades or ranking published during it Source: 42 Paris, 2016 https://julienreszka.com/blog/translating-a-book-is-the-best-way-to-learn-it/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/translating-a-book-is-the-best-way-to-learn-it/og.png Mon, 07 Dec 2015 18:14:00 GMT Better long-term retention from active recall versus passive re-reading Source: Karpicke & Roediger, Science, 2008 https://julienreszka.com/blog/is-mass-immigration-a-moral-obligation-v4-says-no/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/is-mass-immigration-a-moral-obligation-v4-says-no/og.png Sat, 05 Sep 2015 09:30:00 GMT Asylum seekers the European Commission proposed to redistribute across EU member states under mandatory quotas in September 2015 Source: European Commission, Proposal COM(2015) 451, September 9, 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-shift-to-mobile-created-my-first-freelance-opportunity/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-shift-to-mobile-created-my-first-freelance-opportunity/og.png Thu, 14 May 2015 13:22:00 GMT Share of my first freelance clients acquired through personal recommendations, not cold outreach Source: Personal records, 2015 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-gan-paper-turned-me-toward-generative-design/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-gan-paper-turned-me-toward-generative-design/og.png Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:33:00 GMT The generator's output space: given a random noise vector, it can produce an image that has never existed before Source: Goodfellow et al., Generative Adversarial Networks, NeurIPS 2014 https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-charted-my-contacts-on-balance-and-passion/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/love-score-charted-my-contacts-on-balance-and-passion/og.png Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:30:00 GMT Axes used to map every contact: balance (who initiates more) and passion (how active the exchange is over time) Source: Love Score, Android app, July 2014 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-upcoming-war-in-eastern-europe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-upcoming-war-in-eastern-europe/og.png Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:20:00 GMT Days Poroshenko had been president when he sat across from Putin at Normandy, with no army to speak of and asymmetric need written across the table Source: Ukrainian presidential inauguration, June 7, 2014; Normandy Format summit, June 6, 2014 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-bought-bitcoin-at-the-inauguration-of-la-maison-du-bitcoin/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-bought-bitcoin-at-the-inauguration-of-la-maison-du-bitcoin/og.png Tue, 13 May 2014 16:44:00 GMT Approximate price of one bitcoin in euros on the day La Maison du Bitcoin opened in Paris, May 13, 2014 Source: Bitcoin price data, CoinMarketCap; EUR/USD rate, May 2014 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-am-going-to-study-geopolitics-of-central-europe/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-am-going-to-study-geopolitics-of-central-europe/og.png Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:45:00 GMT Year Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum, giving up the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the US, and UK Source: Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, December 5, 1994 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-3d-printshow-at-the-louvre-felt-like-the-future/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-3d-printshow-at-the-louvre-felt-like-the-future/og.png Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:11:00 GMT Year the 3D Printshow brought industrial, medical, and consumer 3D printing under one roof at the Carousel du Louvre, Paris Source: 3D Printshow, Paris, November 2013 https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-joined-penninghen-to-study-design-and-art-direction/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/i-joined-penninghen-to-study-design-and-art-direction/og.png Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:15:00 GMT Year Penninghen was founded in Paris, one of the oldest schools for art direction and graphic design in France Source: Esag Penninghen, Paris https://julienreszka.com/blog/a-free-tool-called-fluidui-made-me-a-ui-designer/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/a-free-tool-called-fluidui-made-me-a-ui-designer/og.png Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:23:00 GMT Year browser-based interactive prototyping tools became accessible to non-engineers, letting anyone design clickable UI mockups without writing code Source: Fluidui.com, 2012 https://julienreszka.com/blog/felt-like-ezio-in-florence/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/felt-like-ezio-in-florence/og.png Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:33:00 GMT Year construction began on the Florence Cathedral, which Ezio climbs in Assassin's Creed II and which you can still climb today Source: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore historical records; Assassin's Creed II, Ubisoft, 2009 https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/og.png Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:33:00 GMT Cost of the NSA Utah Data Center, revealed in March 2012, built to store intercepted internet traffic at scale Source: Wired, The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center, March 2012 https://julienreszka.com/blog/war-in-libya-what-s-in-it-for-us/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/war-in-libya-what-s-in-it-for-us/og.png Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:44:00 GMT Drop in irregular boat arrivals to Italy after the 2008 Italy-Libya migration cooperation deal with Gaddafi Source: Italian Ministry of Interior data, 2008-2010; Treaty of Friendship between Italy and Libya, August 2008 https://julienreszka.com/blog/wait-leonardo-da-vinci-was-real/ https://julienreszka.com/blog/wait-leonardo-da-vinci-was-real/og.png Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:22:00 GMT Year Leonardo da Vinci sketched a working aerial screw, a helicopter prototype, 418 years before the Wright Brothers flew Source: Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, Codex Atlanticus, c.1485; Wright Brothers first flight, December 1903