Sitting in a Tree xkcd.com/2919

Lotta people offering Ohtani/Ippei takes who clearly haven't read through the full report from yesterday. Big 'show up to class having not done the reading but over-participate in discussion' energy.

In America we've had an unofficial moratorium on surpassing the new World Trade Center's 1,776' height. Once that seal is broken by OKC, Chicago must immediately draft up plans for a taller building.

What's in your scented shampoo? It's not very clear at all -- with Daniela Sirtori and Madeline Campbell, we took a look at fragrance ingredients in your daily cosmetic products (also i taught myself Blender for this so pls read): bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-…

i don't know if people now even realize that prince, david bowie and bruce springsteen were all enormously uncool for most of the '90s and had to come out the other side of that to achieve timeless unassailable coolness

A great explanation of why we don't get eclipses every month — from a 1757 book, 'Astronomy Explained Upon Isaac Newton's Principles, and Made Easy To Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics,' animated by Henry Reich: youtu.be/vIZyuXl-91U?si…

This academic year marks a decade of teaching military history in higher education for me.
I'd like to reflect upon the demographic that keeps me employed: my students who are 'into' military history. I'm going to try to limit myself to observations rather than judgement. 🧵1/25

Oklahoma Democrats won 8 of 9 statewide elections on the ballot in 2006; they have lost all 54 ever since, including 52 of these by double-digits smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2024/04/11/the…

Many Americans dislike both Biden and Trump. Here’s how polls say they’ll vote.
(David H. Montgomery YouGov America)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/240411-topli…

Ippei Mizuhara has been charged with stealing more than $16 million from Shohei Ohtani, according to federal investigators.

Today is Tornado Drill Day statewide; practice warning sirens will sound at 1:45 pm and 6:45 pm: duluthmn.gov/web-subscripti…

For j. patrick coolican's latest column I dug up some stats on Minnesota gambling revenue. It's increased by a massive amount in recent years, driven mostly by electronic pull-tabs minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/11/min…

They didn’t let him do this on Rogue One so he released a set of alt titles instead.

Algorithms are still at the level of grandparent hearing you say something about horses one time and sending you horse-themed gifts for the rest of your life

Be weird if she did