Dennis M. Hogan Obligatory: seen on my 4th of July trip to the FDR Library: letter from Joseph Pilates to FDR hinting that Pilates would help polio after-effects

Senior xAI Engineer says: “Grok looks fine to me.”

BREAKING: The Mossad Has Captured Grok in Buenos Aires, Living Under a Pseudonym "El Groko"

For those of you who need your weekly lava fix, Episode 28 lava fountaining at Kīlauea in Hawaiʻi is now underway... Streaming cameras: V1cam: ow.ly/vyv950Wn5XX V2cam: ow.ly/SFkq50Wn5XY V3cam: ow.ly/aKyp50Wn5XW

Was talking about pterosaurs with Pearl yesterday and found a great example of how paleontology is often entirely conjecture So we’ve got an impressive beastie, Hatzegopteryx, very cool how they reconstructed that. How much of the skeleton do we have? Turns out barely any lol

Fun Fact: In-N-Out has never closed a restaurant due to lack of profitability. The only location to close was in Oakland, California, due to the company's concerns for the safety of its employees. Although the location was profitable, In-N-Out decided to leave the city. In an

calorie restriction takes far more mental fortitude than exercising the most important skill for losing weight is learning to subsist on food that is relatively unpleasant to eat just remember that hunger is communism leaving your body

Here is my personally definitive take on the Epstein matter: 1. Bondi screwed up royally with "the list is on my desk." 2. Bondi screwed up royally with the distribution of "binders" (that said nothing) to X randos. 3. If there is evidence enough for a prosecution, DOJ cannot

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US Air Force bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and

Charlie Kirk I've said this before, but computer science curriculums have changed. They used to focus on hard math, writing device drivers, algorithms. Over the past decade, though, every time I interview a recent graduate, they talk about group projects on AWS or GCP. The kind of thing you

The evolution of physics is very funny to me. 100 years ago, it was "Paul Villard discovered gamma rays after he burned his hand on a lump of uranium in his kitchen", and now huge teams are spending billions to build particle colliders and they never discover anything useful.

Very aspirational when it was eccentric nerds smuggling chunks of radioactive material into their homes to do rogue experiments with homemade apparatus, now it's just a big academic money laundering scam.

Form follows function

True story, once on a summer day when I was sitting on the couch, and my cat was in a sunny patch having a lie-in, there was a fly in the window, and I said, thinking of that fly, "Teena, do your job", and she lazily got up, stretched, went to the window, ate the fly, and then

gen z has no idea what they’ve missed

The human way is a long history of war, brutality, theft, and rape. So, that’s what you wanna run with, run with it. The only thing that restrains that human capacity is culture, the rule of law, and accountable leadership bounded by checks and balances. In other words, the

Going on 24 years for me--it was harder than powerlifting & bodybuilding was. Joe was a genius, started as a POW, taught to boxers. Then Geo Balanchine got his dancers into it. Used to be very proprietary in NYC, big IP kerfuffle in the '90s led to the explosion across the US.