🏊 #AQUASingapore25 | 🏅 Double médaillé d'or sur 200 et 400m 4 nages et médaillé d'argent sur le relais 4x100m 4 nages, Léon Marchand est élu NAGEUR DE LA COMPÉTITION !

La Canadienne Summer McIntosh, quadruple championne du monde sur cette édition, et le Français Léon Marchand, qui a décroché deux titres et battu le record du monde du 200 m 4 nages, ont été élus meilleurs nageurs des Mondiaux 2025. ➡️ l.lequipe.fr/zYR

"[W]e need leaders who understand that losing the game fairly is far more honorable than winning by force. Why so? Because when presidents flip the board, it’s not just a game that ends. It’s the pieces of democracy that get scattered to the floor." nytimes.com/2025/08/03/opi…

Burduja deplânge „baletul politic” după ce-a luat <8%. Caz clasic de disonanță cognitivă cu nuanțe Dunning–Kruger: plié pe orgoliu, piruetă pe ipocrizie, iar la final turcoaz... pe el. Publicul? Sătul. Aplauze? Doar de la oglinzi. Eufemisme. Chapeau, ALP! panorama.ro/panorama-alp-d…

A union shackled by one dissent is Versailles reborn, echoing Garry Kasparov & Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹: unanimity cripples Europe. Weaponizing integration is unpalatable, yet when dialogue deadlocks, sterner steps beckon. High time to grease Monnet’s engine with bold overhaul and surge ahead.

My bike was slower today than I expected

Maybe it has something to do with the latest economic policies? Or all the cuts and firings? But, of course, Dear Leader is never wrong!

Sidestepping the binary of classical ethics, eschewing utilitarian calculus for chaotic… creativity, trolley trouble has never been this performative: youtube.com/watch?v=oONZ_f… P.S. Of course, set to Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1—nothing says moral collapse like melancholy in 3/4 time.

Recalls that I did stake one of my NL PhD defense ‘stellingen’ on Rubinstein’s quip "A paper in Economics which is not rejected should not be published" (& defended it!). He always viewed econ models as stylized fables, each assumption a Chekhov’s gun—set to strike. Fire at will!

Kiddo’s first day at school in Santiago—skipping right into Segundo Básico’s second semester—was unforgettable: she poured energy & enthusiasm into a vibrant “Hola” drawing for her classmates and teacher, only to find they’d all made their own “Bienvenue” art for her! ¡Qué bacán!

For the first time in four decades, a new algorithm has improved upon the speed limit for calculating the fastest route between two points. Ben Brubaker reports: quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-…

Brilliant The Guardian Europe columnist’s take: Europe knelt so hard it’s a face-plant festival—any EU Commission chief hopefuls bold enough to tell Trump to stick his tariffs where the sun doesn’t dare shine? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Let me talk today about 🧽 sponge cities. When I discuss fertility decline, I often get the following comment: “As the population falls, housing prices will also fall, which will help with fertility and the system will self-correct.” Perhaps not. As the population falls, we

A pedagogical tour de force: Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem rendered with clarity, coherence, and concision.

Guvernul ca trapă rotativă: abia dispare un sfertodoct fudul, că răsare altul, cu ecuson de consilier și misiune divină. Cât despre PM… e pleavă: fără coloană sau logică, dar cu simțul prăbușirii bine exersat — cade impecabil, la orice adiere de presiune. hotnews.ro/cum-explica-se…

Indiferent dacă întâmpinați cu durere, cu reflecție sau cu indiferență moartea fostului președinte Iliescu, e timpul să priviți spre viitor. Un set de măsuri pentru o Românie demnă, rațională și sustenabilă — acum și în Adevărul (tnx, Remus Florescu!): 👉 adevarul.ro/economie/10-ma…