2hNot only are these guys shitty at their jobs, they keep each other and themselves in power so they can continue to be shitty at their jobs.
↩︎ Jennifer Barnett
In case you've never seen it, from 1973, John Cage performs "4:33" in Harvard Square.
Via Open Culture
2hHer father, Carl A. Rouse, was the first African American to earn a doctorate in physics from the California Institute of Technology, and only the fifth to earn the degree from any American university.
↩︎ The Washington Post
6h“Our rural territories are not just sceneries, they are also sounds, smells, activities and practices that are part of our heritage. New country dwellers aren’t always used to it.”
↩︎ The New York Times
Stanford mathematician Tadashi Tokieda explains the curious higher and lower notes you hear from tapping a coffee mug. From a good interview in Quanta:
I’m trying to jolt myself out of my complacency. When I share, I just want to share with people. I hope that they’ll like it, but I’m not trying to educate them, and I don’t think people are complacent. People are struggling in their own ways and making efforts and trying to improve. Who am I to jolt them out of complacency? But I like to be surprised, and I like to be proved wrong. Not in public, because that’s humiliating. But in private, I really like to be proved wrong, because that means that afterward, if I come to terms with it when the dust settles, I am ever so slightly smarter than before, and I feel better that way.
Via TKSST

Trying to make sure you take 10,000 steps per day? Nine-year-old dancer Lilyana Ilunga hits her number in about three minutes.
You might also want to check out Nia Dennis's recent floor routine for UCLA Gymnastics.


2d‘Oumuamua didn’t behave as an interstellar object would be expected to, Loeb argued, because it wasn’t one. It was the handiwork of an alien civilization.
↩︎ The New Yorker