Pratchett, 60, best known for his satirical Discworld fantasy series, becomes a knight, one of the queen's most important honours, and will now be addressed as a 'Sir'.
"There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job," he said. "I am of course delighted and honoured and needless to say, flabbergasted."
In other cultural contexts, this might seem something like a den of smut and vice - but Mr Nasser, a devout Muslim, insists it's more a public service and religious duty.
Olive often imagined there was an orchestra in her heart. Music heard only by her except when her heart broke open and it spilled out into the world.
...shows you how popular a Google search query is in each U.S. state, giving a ranking like the one you see in the left column. It then compares this ranking with other ways of ranking states, like average income or population density, using Spearman's rank correlation.For instance, here are the states by popularity of searching for "God".
| Metric | Correlation with God |
|---|---|
| Obesity | 0.84 (Positive, strong) |
| InfantMortality | 0.65 (Positive, moderate) |
| EnergyConsumption | 0.51 (Positive, moderate) |
| VotedForBush | 0.47 (Positive, moderate) |
| Illiteracy | 0.41 (Positive, moderate) |
| Rainfall | 0.39 (Positive, weak) |
| ViolentCrime | 0.33 (Positive, weak) |
| Unemployment | 0.33 (Positive, weak) |
| Suicide | 0.08 (Positive, very weak) |
| Area | 0.07 (Positive, very weak) |
| PercentElderly | 0.06 (Positive, very weak) |
| Density | 0.04 (Positive, very weak) |
| Longitude | -0.02 (Negative, very weak) |
| Age | -0.21 (Negative, weak) |
| LifeExpectancy | -0.33 (Negative, weak) |
| SameSexCouples | -0.38 (Negative, weak) |
| Latitude | -0.45 (Negative, moderate) |
| Frost | -0.48 (Negative, moderate) |
| VotedForObama | -0.51 (Negative, moderate) |
| Income | -0.55 (Negative, moderate) |
| HighSchoolGrad | -0.67 (Negative, moderate) |
And:
I miss it now...