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Remember, only the Nobel prize in economics is actually associated with the Sveriges Riksbank, the others in categories like "medicine" and "peace" have NO affiliation with the Swedish central bank at all.
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"Explanation as Orgasm", by @AlisonGopnik
"My hypothesis will be that explanation is to cognition as orgasm is to reproduction."
(If the paper is behind a paywall for you, here's a closely related one: alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alis…)
On the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations: What ignited humanity’s ascent from millennia of stagnation, and what are the roots of global inequality? From @GalorOded nber.org/papers/w35799
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G.A. Cohen—quite possibly the funniest philosopher of all time—providing the commentary for a Marxist boxing match between Jürgen Habermas and John Roemer.
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The odds of capturing this on video were probably 1 in 850 quindecillion
There has never been a quadruple meg before in human history and there will never be another
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every Russian dinner party has at least one PhD physicist (who against his will works as a programmer), one mathematician (who has a similar fate) and one person trained in music theory or philology(no job but has money somehow)—usually there's more—and they reenact this video.
Third wall torn asunder
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
August 30,1956

ALT P1- SLUGGO IS LOOKING OUT OF THE WINDOW ON A RAINY DAY SLUGGO: A RAINY DAY AND NOTHING LEFT TO READ P2- SLUGGO LOOKS OVER AT THE NEWSPAPER LAYING ON THE CHAIR SLUGGO: I FINISHED ALL THE COMIC STRIPS IN THE PAPER P3- SLUGGO TEARS PANEL THREE DOWN THE MIDDLE TO LOOK AT THE BACK OF THE NEWSPAPER PAGE SLUGGO: MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER COMIC STRIP BACK OF THESE PANELS
Wonder how things/citations are going for the poet Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947 -- 2010)
poetryfoundation.org/poets/a…
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sad it died on holiday
Fossil of the largest millipede that ever lived found on English beach bit.ly/3mvuye2
Walton Goggins told Quentin Tarantino he didn’t care about getting hired for Django Unchained. He just wanted to perform the 4 lead roles in front of him.
“I said, I'm not leaving. I want to read all of these roles, Leo's role, Sam's role, all of them.
Because I don't care if I get this job, that's irrelevant to me.
The only thing I care about is having the opportunity to say Quentin Tarantino's words in front of Quentin Tarantino.
He said, 'Are you serious?' I said, 'Yeah.' He said, 'Yeah, let's fucking do it.'
He sat there with me in that room for another 45 minutes, maybe an hour, and we just read through his script. I read Sam's role, and he read every other role as if he was filming it.
Then I read Leo's role, and he read every other role as if we were filming it.
It was one of the greatest days of my life as an artist.
At the end of it, I hugged him and said, 'Thank you. That was a dream come true, and good luck with your movie. I can't wait to watch it!”
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It's too early to even think about 2028 and I already have the best job in the world representing the 54th, but if I were elected President, I have found my press secretary.




























