A compliment? "He had a lack of intelligencenthat made him endearing."

Why is soccer inherently unpredictable? One major reason is the very small number of points (goals) in each match (mean = ~2.5), as opposed to the number of points in a basketball match (mean = ~116). #football #basketball #soccer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Relativism: If houseflies wrote the Bible.

I was not familiar with this expression. "Jump the shark" is an idiom used to describe the moment when a franchise reaches its peak and begins an irreversible decline in quality. It refers to desperate, outlandish, or gimmicky plot twists introduced to maintain audience interest. Trump, indeed!

... as opposed to Kapo Socialist Bernie Sanders, who hates Israel's democracy, loves the "democracies" of Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah, and pines for historical Socialists, like Stalin, Mao, Ceaușescu, and Pol Pot. @sanders.senate.gov

RFK says he can visually diagnose mitochondrial challenges in kids. I just listen to him & I immediately recognize the symptoms of Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome, a rare mitochondrial disease characterized by progressive mental retardation and susceptibility to brain worms. @robertfkennedy.bsky.social

The abuse heaped on Kylian Mbappé after France's Mondial defeat recalls Einstein's quip: "If relativity proves right, Germany will call me German and France a citizen of the world. If it proves wrong, France will call me German and Germany will call me a Jew."

STAT!

Mimicry in nature. Seems very accurate. #EugeneLevy @twisteddoodles.bsky.social

How confident are you in your understanding a scientific issue? @tomgauld.bsky.social

A case report: An 85-y old woman with progressive Alzheimer’s for 10 y. After taking 5 g of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, she regained speech, control of her bladder, etc. Asinine critics raised the objection of "long term effects." At 85, what long term? www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

Extinction may be a good thing... I think. www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Orangutan mothers take orangutan infants to playdates. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

JD Vance: “The thing I couldn’t get over Biden is … the way that he ate ice cream, in the most suggestive way imaginable." Also "You have to be a very manly man to be able to confidently eat a corn dog.” 83-year old men and corndogs make Vance think gay thoughts. He is even sicker than Trump.

Human childbirth used to be regarded as uniquely difficult, due to a tight cephalopelvic fit thought to result from a trade-off between bipedal locomotion and large brain size. Other primates, e.g., marmosets, have it worse. What sin did the marmoset females commit? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The neutral theory of brain and face evolution. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42409787/

I must have missed the gatherings at Harvard & Columbia protesting the #Yazdi #genocide. Similarly, I must have missed the fiery speeches by the current & former presidents of #Ireland on the matter. I also heard nothing from Greta Thunberg and there were no selfies on her valiant efforts. My fault

Only about 10% of humans are lefties. The percentage is much higher in dogs, where lefties outnumber righties 49% to 30%. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

"Nostalgia is a side effect of dying." John Green

"Stupidity has a knack of getting its way." Albert Camus

The reason for the ongoing coordinated coverup of Epstein files is the existence of evidence that Trump has a predilection for hurting women nipples. Republicans (from J. D. Vance downward) are shielding a rapist of minors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

Only in America: One person was arrested after an armed robbery at a lemonade stand in Boston run by two kids. Two masked men flashed a gun and took the cash box. The victims response: "We're 12 and 11. You shouldn't do that."

Brother, can you spare $10,000,000? My son would like to purchase Diego Maradona's Historic "Hand of God" ball. sports.ha.com/itm/soccer-c...

Michael Katz, 82, who was critically wounded in an Iranian missile strike on his home in Haifa in April, has died of his injuries, the northern municipality said on Wednesday. Read more on The Times of Israel: www.timesofisrael.com/82-year-old-...

I'll go with logic.. #politics #logic

Elon Musk is worth ~$1 trillion. What does it mean? It means he is richer than all but 21 of 218 nations. It means he can spend $1 million every day for more than 2,700 years. It means that no one can stop his racist campaign, which through DOGE cuts led to ~600,000 preventable child deaths.

Democracy in the United States? Don't make me lough. Just look at the Senate.

"How are you?" In NYC "Fuck you" In Canada "We're so sorry" In China "Everyone is free here" In Mexico "Plata o Plombo" In Ireland, "Blame the Jews" In England and France "Allahu Akbar" In Poland "We told you so" In Israel "Blame the Jews if it makes you feel better" www.facebook.com/reel/2802159...

$7,500 for chicken tenders from Popeyes?! I have never felt more nauseated. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

Sydney Brenner once drew a distinction between “junk DNA” & “garbage DNA.” Both are part of the nonfunctional genome, which Brenner called “rubbish DNA.” Junk DNA is useless and harmless; garbage DNA is useless and harmful. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Mamdami made a map of NYC's immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. The Jews (11%) were erased. Eichmann would be happy. zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Gottfried Mind. 1824. Domestic cats. Hand colored lithograph on paper #caturday

Levon Biss. 2022. Amazonian purple warrior scarab (Coprophanaeus lancifer). Archival ink print on glossy paper

Falsifying data in Ancient Egypt. CT scans show that about one-third of animal mummies are completely empty inside. Another third contain only a few bones or egg shells. The rest contain complete animals. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Another case of #MeToo unless you’re a Jew. forward.com/culture/8366...

Democracy dies in the Senate and the situation is predicted to worsen. By 2040, 70% of Americans will be represented by 30 senators, while 30% will have 70.

Reminds me of an old saying by Will Rogers: I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

Classic literature with added mathematics. www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Matthew Sparks of @newscientist.com is still optimistic about driverless cars. I am not. A few days ago, a Waymo car tried to maim me for walking too slowly in the parking lot of a grocery store (supermarket in European).

Read the headline and try NOT to visualize.

A bloody foreigner ear: I was listening to the BBC when I heard that "Restoring Wales population to 19th-century levels would trap a lot of carbon." Why killing half of the people in Wales was even suggested as a solution to global warming? Only later I realized, it was "whales" not "Wales."

Japan jumped 0.5 cm eastward following the 2011 magnitude-9 Tohuku earthquake. doi.org/rb95

Vaccines are a success! Since the introduction of the HPV vaccine, no woman in England aged 20-24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024, compared with 23 expected deaths based on historical rates. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The smug, delusional, spectacularly uninformed face of today's Democratic Party: Graham Platner. Proof that boundless confidence and a complete lack of judgment are taking over—and it all spells L.O.S.E.R.S.

According to the pad and tampon commercials on TV, all women are filled with clear blue windshield washer fluid.

I’d like to know which outlandish clown will replace Platner. Will he follow Stalin’s collectivization, Mao’s leap forward, or some other form of economic and political suicide? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

Determinism

Does anyone understand the language of American Football?

It's all about context. Is the glass half empty or half full?

Conditional Probability.