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Feedback: Showbiz returns a topological compliment

13 May 2015

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Showbiz returns a compliment

OCCASIONALLY Feedback points at coverage of celebrities and, from the lofty viewpoint of mathematical and empirical rationality, giggles (for example, 23 January 2010). It’s nice to see the compliment returned.

Returned, specifically, by Sophie Heawood in the Lost In Showbiz column of the UK’s Guardian newspaper, on the diet of Jennifer Aniston (an actress). Jennifer, it seems, “stays in shape” by “eating five meals a day”. Before inquiring further, Sophie insists that “we…

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