This is amazing. I never met Gordon Wood personally either but this tracks with what I’d heard about him. He was a genuinely active and engaged and thought-provoking intellectual right up to the end. I also learned to appreciate Pennsylvania’s James Wilson bc of him…
I read a 19c article about how to not get ripped off at a cheap NYC restaurant and it advised that you make sure you accompany your meal merely with a "cup of cool Croton" (reference to the Croton aqueduct). After that I started referring to NYC tap water as Croton
Does anyone know what this radar artifact west of Leesburg, VA happens to be? The area looks to be home to a subdivision and church…not a wind farm, which is the usual culprit.
holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer
- polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded
- the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit
- then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max
- temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges
hyperstitions.
🚨🚨 big health care exclusive here.
The top Dem-allied think tank is set to unveil a new health care proposal that is a fundamentally different approach to reform than Dems have done in the past. Sets a new frame for the party
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