SamuelGoldman

Possible headlines I should pitch for I-86 coverage: - Despite goosed up turnout, D.C. voters duck foie gras ban - What the duck? Flock of D.C. voters foist foie gras out of town

Imagine putting together an entire halftime show based off of one woman doing a cover of Thunderstruck on xylophone……and having it KICK TOTAL ASS!

Nutritious cockroach milk could be next superfood - and you'll never believe how it's extracted trib.al/W2FGJob

As an apparently rare aficionado of David Lynch's 1984 "Dune," I should mention that Patrick Stewart played Gurney Halleck in it.

I guest lectured in two friends' course at Stanford last week, and my same material took 50% longer to cover than the prior year because they implemented a no tech in class rule, which led to a big jump in student engagement and questions. Higher standards = More learning.

"Gosh, why are the mummy displays so dark and opaque? Must be the lights are broken. I should go tell them downstairs," I thought to myself while recently wandering around the Redpath Museum at McGill University. Then I read the sign. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum has removed Egyptian mummies from display because there was no 'informed consent from the deceased individual'👇 mol.im/a/16227743 #Exclusive #Scotland #Glasgow #Museums #EgyptianMummies #Woke @MailOnlineScot

NYT style is recommending tie-less suits with dress sneakers to disown the cons. Bleak.

The Lincoln Memorial sits in land that was once in the Potomac. Not marshland but in the Potomac itself. The Army core of engineers at one point dredged the river and created some islands. The memorial itself rests on pillars sunk into the bedrock. Here are the concrete pillars that lie beneath and supports 38,000 tons of marble, granite, and limestone—sunk into the bedrock. About 110 of them. Going many feet below the visible floor.

Maybe one trend that AI will reverse is the absolutely stupid practice of connecting things to the Internet that have no business being connected to the Internet.