The perfect American headline for this moment: "Her dream of becoming a trad wife fell apart. Now, she's an OnlyFans millionaire." Veering between sexual extremes, just like our whole culture.
Why does our definition of "freedom" focus on having and making choices? Are all those choices weighing heavily on us, and our society?
Populism as a rebellion against "cognitive elites," that is, smart, high-functioning people. Short summary on Twitter/X.
Don't panic about rare earths.
Another Bronze Age hoard found by metal detectorists, the Peebles Hoard. And yet another, this one with the odd addition of lead ingots.
Some researchers are finding that after skyrocketing, rates of trans/non-binary identification among young Americans are falling rapidly. (Twitter/X) On the other hand, it's actually hard to measure and who do you trust to have an unbiased opinion?
Winners and others from Nikon's Small World Photomicrography competition.
Diane Keaton as a house flipper (NY Times). She owned "nearly fifty" homes in her life.
Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok argue about the Baumol Effect. (Which says that as labor gets more efficient, anything that cannot be made more efficient, notably education and healthcare, gets more and more expensive.)
Full Matt Yglesias article on the relentless negativity of the media in our time.
YouTuber Perun, whose Ukraine content I have linked here several times, must have fans in high places, since he got invited to a recent NATO wargame on the condition that he make a video about it.
Up-to-date data on CO2 emissions. Falling in the US and Europe.
Jennifer Pahlka announces a government reform effort called Recoding America.
More than 200 babies were born at Los Alamos during World War II.
One claimant to being the first motel in America opened in 1925; the NY Times has an appreciation of 100 years of motel life.
Tracking college enrollment by ethnicity since Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. Asian up, black down, seems like a mix for whites and Hispanics. And remember this is all based on student self-identification, with 8 percent refusing to answer the question.
Ben Pentreath at Howard Castle, York Minster, and other Yorkshire historic sites great photographs.
Should you create an AI agent to make your life or death decisions?
They're still arguing about the chronology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean, as they have been throughout my life. The problem is that the precise-looking Egyptian chronicles don't align with radiocarbon dating of the Thera eruption.
Baseball fans are running out of superlatives to describe Shohei Ohtani. This week he helped the Dodgers earn a trip to the World Series by pitching six scoreless innings, with ten strikeouts, and hitting three home runs in three at bats, which many people are calling the best game by any baseball player in history. NY Times: "Shohei Ohtani has tested the bounds of human comprehension for what a baseball player can do." Dodgers manager Dave Roberts: "No one's ever seen something like this." I mention this even though I don't follow baseball because one of the many, many amazing things about our era is that this is truly the golden age of sports, with more talent, better training, and astonishing achievements. (Yahoo, 4-minute video)
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