11.18.2022

november 2022

long trans atlantic flights means movies!
jurassic park: dominion, lightyear, nope, unbearable weight of massive talent, brian and charles, little white lies (2014)

basically no reading tho, lol

the Takeout - How One Man Changed the Way We Drink Wine
the Hustle - The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Freakanomics - The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home
Quartz - Who should you trust? Psychologists have a surprising answer
World Economic Forum - These are all the world's major religions in one map
NBC - Don't forget to declare income from stolen goods and illegal activities, IRS says
NPR - 50 years ago, 'The Electric Company' used comedy to boost kids' reading skills
Fatherly - Study Shows Moms Who Earn More Than Dads Do More of the Housework
WCVB - Bees unleashed in attack on deputies during eviction enforcement, Hampden County sheriff says

daily news - NYPD will issue easier-to-fire guns to new recruits, aiming for improved accuracy

the atlantic - The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
"the share of American adults who aren’t married and don’t live with a romantic partner has also been growing, having jumped from 29 percent in 1990 to 38 percent in 2019"

nautilus - The Case for Professors of Stupidity
"On this past International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reread a bit of Bertrand Russell. In 1933, dismayed at the Nazification of Germany, the philosopher wrote “The Triumph of Stupidity,” attributing the rise of Adolf Hitler to the organized fervor of stupid and brutal people—two qualities, he noted, that “usually go together.” He went on to make one of his most famous observations, that the “fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”"
David Krakauer, the President of the Santa Fe Institute - "...stupidity is not simply the opposite of intelligence. “Stupidity is using a rule where adding more data doesn’t improve your chances of getting [a problem] right,” Krakauer said. “In fact, it makes it more likely you’ll get it wrong.” "