You know when you hear a phd student working on something and you can tell by the regular clicking pattern that dude there's for sure a way to automate what you're doing

A paleolithic toolkit from 30k years ago, presumably carried in a little pouch that has since decayed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpaJ... Fascinating look back on the good old days

Solutrean points are amazing. To think they were made during the ice age, so likely with numb fingers. And in France, so likely surrounded by six mimes on lunch break smoking Gauloises

Vickers: hey Royal Navy would you like to buy my new 18 inch guns to defend Malta? RN: don't be silly what would we need it for? None of our potential enemies has cannons that large. Vickers: hey Regia Marina would you like some 18 inch guns to put on battleships? RM: Sure. Vickers: hey RN...?

There's going to be an enormous water hammer of Indian and Chinese students that spent three quarters of their life optimizing for getting an H-1B, and now find the valve in front of them shut. Where will the pressure go? The EU could make a killing but it likely won't.

The UK has all of the government services you would expect but it is impossible for a continental european to predict who will provide each service and how it will be funded.

Do you know what makes a good empirical economist? A good empirical economist can get off three valid instruments a minute, from any weather.

My interview on The Visible Hand podcast is now live! www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

Fulmen in cauda

The son from Life is Beautiful is also the son of The Gladiator

Kinda remarkable that if you Google ESTA the first like six results are scams

I am sure that at some point somebody has offered me worse insults, and yet I am drawing a blank as to when this might have been

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek. ‘tragos’ = goat ‘aeidein’ = to sing So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.” Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

Has anybody succeeded in making a city bus that doesn't sound like it's disassembling going over a pothole?

My granddad's cousin went to Spain in early '37 to fight the fascists and kept a diary of his experience. One entry read that he'd been shown how to clean his rifle by another, more experienced, Englishman by the name of Eric Blair. So yeah, I think we all know what Orwell would think.

trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g... know your meme is now about as important as the financial times to understand the world we live in

1/ Dave Chappelle had one of the most successful comedy shows of all time. Then he realized much of the audience wasn’t laughing with him, but at the very stereotypes he was trying to critique.

At scale, geothermal is essentially a fossil resource

Red are places with very warm summers and very cold winters. Left, 21k years ago, right 13 k years ago.

Me finding out @arindube.bsky.social and Oeindrila are siblings youtube.com/shorts/htJJZ...

@nilo.bsky.social

I got an email from the "At Risk Customer" division of my financial institution.

If you were an illustrator working in 17h century France, a strong explosion drawing game was essential

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What exchanges rates do you know to within 20% off the top of your head? From EUR I would say USD, CAD, AUS, GBP, BRL, JPY, Danish,

Without looking it up, how many Chinese yuan to the USD?

I wish i could read my text aloud and an AI would notice when my voice faltered and flag the section as sus

A fun scifi world would be exactly Earth, but continental drift was 100 milion years = 1000 years. So Like in the middle ages India was still an Island, the Hymalias was rising a meter a day during the 19th century etc. Somehow no tremendous earthquakes

Dryad Octopetala, the flower that gives the name to the Younger Dryas

When I see this, my mind immediately think that if you built an enormous gantry crane over Old Faithful, you could drop a large pressurized vessel with a filter medium on it, and make an enormous batch of espresso.

I'm so excited for my Dutch Research Council interview today! The lucky socks are ready and so am I! 💪💪💪

WIthout looking it up, how much do you think a mid career electrical engineer makes in Shanghai?

I want a Uno deck printed on Bicycle card stock

We lost a real one to day. Heaven will be looking pretty stylish for a while

youtube.com/shorts/uduUP... This is such a ridiculous point. Farms generate only 1% returns on the £5m BECAUSE people buy them to skip inheritance tax.

One of the weird side effects of AI is that it might open the field of software development to people that have actual social skills

Armies should give out medals if the guy on the other side gets a medal. Sample citation "Private Fritz was doing a perfectly adequate soldiering job, manning an MG, when one Corporal Jones just decided to pull some hero shit and rolled up his position. Adequately done Fritz"

This is signifcantly better than the last attempt at this concept

Home delivered pizza is an interesting job. Not super high paid but I imagine it's nice that most of the time your arrival is the highlight of everyone's day

If each atom on Earth was a deck of card, and each was shuffled once per second, you would only expect to get them in new deck order (or any specific desired order) once every 26 billion years. But you would expect to get SOME order twice (birthday problem) in one quadrillionth of a second.

Amazing preservation, despite what I can only surmise were the most perfunctory of burial rituals.

Would love if they just showed up in perfectly waxed mustachios "Well, what did we miss?"

I would like to remind people that I applied to Stanford to do a PhD, and i wasn't accepted, but I do have a letter strongly implying that it was related to an exceptionally strong pool of candidates that year

My niece can scrunch up her mouth and block her nostrils with the top of her upper lip. She learned how to do this naturally when swimming and thought everybody could do it and did it. The other day in swim class a friend asked her why she always puckers her mouth underwater and found out.

doubt

I’m pretty excited today that the paper that received our inaugural Best Paper Prize at Standard Error earlier this year has won another recognition from an impressive collection of institutional partners