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Stretch explanation: in popular culture the chestnut tree served as a major plot point in Richard Power's 2018 novel The Overstory, which won several major awar
by MrApathy 5y ago
Stretch explanation: in popular culture the chestnut tree served as a major plot point in Richard Power's 2018 novel The Overstory, which won several major awards. His most recent novel was published in late September, so to some extent his name and plots are back in the news.
Stretchier explanation: Frequency illusion, also called Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Per Wikipedia, "a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency of occurrence"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- eminence32 5y agoIt's probably Baader-Meinhof plus an actual increase in frequency, which can happen if people see an interesting link on NH and then share it socially on other sites (which then gets shared further). Interesting topics seem to be fairly "bursty" among various social networks.
- jskrn 5y agoI'm currently reading the The Overstory and that plot point is why I clicked the link!