I'm off today to Massachusetts and Maine, so blogging will be light for a week.
Garden designer and mosaicist Jeffrey Bale in Honduras, remarkable photo set. And another photo set of Bale touring Maya ruins.
Virginia governor Youngkin shows a more effective path toward regulatory reform; his group has so far cut the number of state regulations by 25% and reduced the total number of words in the code by more than half. (Forbes, summary on Twitter/X)
The Tour of Dr Syntax Through the Pleasures & Miseries of London, illustrated satire published in 1820.
Some mathematicians claim to have derived the equations of fluid dynamics from the study of bouncing atoms (one version of Hilbert's famous "sixth problem") and they say their result shows how the forward motion of time can appear from fundamental laws that have no time direction. (news story, 6-minute video)
The Trump administration says nobody else will be prosecuted in the Epstein mess; no evidence that he blackmailed anyone. Some people have asked, how can Epstein and Maxwell be guilt of human trafficking if they didn't traffic people to anyone? (Twitter/X) (Update 7/11: There have been Twitter flare-ups and other online anger about this for three days now, so I wonder if this will have any impact on Trump's core supporters. Personally I think there about a billion things in the world more important than the Epstein mess, so even though I think the whole business stinks I don't get the obsession. It is simply not true that all the important stuff happens in secret; on the contrary it is all out in the open, in Ukraine and Gaza and the US Congress and along the Guadalupe River and anywhere else you care to look.)
Thoughtful look at Tesla's robotaxi rollout in Austin.
Democrats used to be far more trusted than Republicans on the issue of education, but that is no longer true. Matt Yglesias blames leftist educational fads.
At Caracol, the largest Maya site in Belize, a royal tomb has been excavated that may be the founder of a dynasty. (NY Times; History Blog)
Just learned today about Robbie Edmonds, an American soldier who was captured by the Germans during World War II. As the senior NCO in his camp, he was ordered to identify the Jewish prisoners. Instead he ordered all the men present to stand forward, saying, "We are all Jews." (Twitter/X, wikipedia) Interesting that wikipedia has a special category and emblem for Righteous Among the Nations.
Thomas Chatterton Williams asks his students to think beyond race and gets lots of resistance. (NY Times)
The Filles de Roi, young French women sent to 17th-century Canada to become the mothers of a new nation.
A major Russian coal company has to be bailed out by the government, a sign of big problems across the industry.
Putin: "wherever the foot of a Russian soldier steps is ours."
From Russian war correspondent Sladkov, a summary of the Russian nationalist view:
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