I call this a win-win. The Pentagon loses access to some of the best and brightest minds, and the universities learn not to take money from a fickle, political body. It sucks for the people who had research depending on this funding, but with the exception of the 2 schools in blood-red Oklahoma these schools were all in blue states on Trump’s shit list, they probably saw it coming.

Probably not. My kids are all monotonic.

Well yeah, otherwise they’d be called judgegullos.

Sapiens is so heavily overfitted that I almost couldn’t finish it the first time I read it through. You could say the same about Dawn of Everything , except that Dawn 's purpose was to show that there were not just counterexamples for many generally accepted things, but in some cases new evidence that totally overturns some of that “common knowledge.”

One of my favorite books. Though I have to read it with 10 Wikipedia tabs opened.

I don’t like this headline. A human from 60,000 years ago would be anatomically identical to a modern human, brain included, so of course they mind would be able to produce sophisticated ideas. A better headline would have been about there are few examples of abstract mathematics from that long ago.

Someone’s about to get booted off of X.

I think it was the black guy more than the tan suit that they took exception to.

It acts as a shock absorber for its brain.

Cars with big numbers aren’t really about performance, they’re about being performative. They’re entries in a dick-measuring contest.