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.
It's the Short List for the 2021 ToB!
Books, judges, zombies, oh my! Announcing the field for the 2021 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes
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.
2h“I have a quality—a vice, perhaps. It’s called perseverance, which isn’t the same thing as patience. Patience I don’t possess, but perseverance? You’re talking to someone who recorded 555 Scarlatti sonatas.”
↩︎ The New York Times
Do the Thomas Piketty.
What if we passed a one-time wealth tax to fund pandemic relief? Yale Law School's Daniel Markovits makes the case.
2hWhy are we convinced, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that sabotage is an unacceptable and ineffective tactic?
↩︎ Verso Books
1dThe team found that conversations almost never end when both parties want them to—and that people are a very poor judge of when their partner wishes to call it quits.
↩︎ Scientific American
In case you also discovered classical music on Saturday mornings.
From "Barber of Seville" to "The Blue Danube," to a ton of Strauss, an extensive detailing of pieces featured in cartoons.
THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons, so I’m going to identify the pieces that frequently popped up.
— Vincent Alexander (@NonsenseIsland) March 1, 2021
One of the most recognizable is Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” performed by those great piano virtuosos Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. pic.twitter.com/SmyKbMpw3e