There's a striking contrast between the old ideal of the stoic conservative gentleman - like Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland - and today's hysterical right-wing thought leaders. They very much fail to live up to conservative ideals. Whatever happened to the strong, silent type?

Maybe the beavers can build high speed rail in California and continue the 2nd Ave line into Harlem.

Increase literacy rates with this one weird trick (phonics)

Think this might be an upgrade in Irish stereotyping.

Today's announcement makes it clear that the odds of measles making a major comeback are continuing to rise. As a reminder, measles really messes you up. The infection itself tends to be mild. It kills, but only rarely. But it ruins your immune system for years afterwards!

Read a few interesting posts on the Faroe Islands recently. My trip report from a very brief visit a few months ago. -- The landscape is improbably three-dimensional and rough-hewn: rugged, jutted, serrated, cragged. In being fully denuded – the peaty soil, the Atlantic winds,

More French unicorns in the US than in France.

Fukuyama explains why AI is not going to solve most of our problems. In the material world, intelligence is not the bottleneck

Cursing is rarely a symbol of low class. It's often a mark of high authenticity. Evidence: Swearing predicts higher rates of honesty and integrity. It signals a willingness to prize candor over courtesy. A little profanity shows that you're being real and you do give a damn.

Econ nobel should go to the highest bidder if we want it to be allocated efficiently

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Dozens of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

🚲 More than two million people have purchased an e-bike in the US in recent years — reshaping how we get around. RMI’s Ellen Kennedy joined CNN to explain why e-bikes are one of the most efficient, affordable, and climate-friendly ways to move. 🔗 cnn.it/4mTLiIb

Ethan Mollick i've spent serious efforts working on developing math problems with an unambiguous (e.g., numerical) answer that gpt-5-pro cannot solve. it is *nontrivial* to do so. it was totally different even 4-6 months ago.

Does everyone secretly feel that if you went back you to college now, you could learn so much faster, better, and deeper? And that your 18 year old self kinda wasted the opportunity?

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Pensions should be linked to per capita GDP to make the welfare state affordable and get pensioners voting for pro-growth policies.

Being a theorist is great. Your brain gets friend after around 6 hours of math a day, so after that you can just happily play videogames for the rest of the day

Incredible stuff

For two years, Israel’s army has been killing Palestinians, and many stayed silent. Now some of those same voices suddenly speak out against Hamas, as if Gazans need selective empathy to survive one oppressor but not the other. And others did the opposite: they cried out against

Constraint-based learning.