Brian Held

Teacher of AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconimics, & AP Statistics at Loyola High School of Los Angeles. Head Varsity Tennis Coach. Georgetown Alum CAS '97

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@BenSasse @jaketapper To “arrrrr” is human….

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@azogueray Out of this world!

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@barstoolsports Scott Sterling …

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@MeganTStevenson @haroldpollack @ben_golub .@haroldpollack originally pointed out an irony.@ top 50 colleges, more than 1/2 come from upper 20% income dist who pay approx 50-90. Are you quibbling with the number 90k? or the general point that colleges are an institution that correlate w increase in income inequality

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@MeganTStevenson @haroldpollack @ben_golub And it’s not really an uber vs subway that’s the irony. I think the shelling out of 90k a year for the students and families might be the elephant here

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@robinhanson Enlightening! …. But, in the end, nothing there matters

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@conor64 2/2 society is too complex for public heath to manage every facet.

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@conor64 1/2 Perhaps the gov should have been the institution to weigh the benefits & costs (of various measures), but they deferred at every turn to what public health said (at least in Cali). When teachers jumped the vaccine line and we still didn’t open schools, revealed that …

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@JesterJum At that point in the race, It would all depend on who’s *too tired*

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On the cheap…. The pay is peanuts!

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Woah! 🤯 🐦‍⬛ 🥜

Sweden Trained Crows To Pick Up Cigarette Butts. They Are Rewarded With Peanuts.

Most cities hire people to pick up cigarette butts. Sweden hired crows. And they work for peanuts. Literally.

A Swedish startup called Corvid Cleaning built a machine that rewards wild crows for picking up cigarette butts, the number one litter item in Swedish cities. A crow drops a butt into the slot, a camera verifies it, and out comes a peanut.

No training camps. No cages. The crows figured out the system on their own, because corvids are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. They use tools, solve puzzles, and apparently run side hustles.

The machine tracks every deposit. The counter on this one reads 124. That's 124 cigarette butts picked up by birds no one asked to help.

[Loyola High School Athletics @LoyolaAthletics]

𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐧 • Loyola Tennis was honored to celebrate our beloved Cub, Braun Levi ’25, today at Cheviot Hills.

Thank you to the Levi Family, Geffen Academy, and all of our Loyola alumni, family, and friends in attendance.𝐂𝟒𝐋

#LoyolaTennis | #LiveLikeBraun 💛

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𝐋𝐋𝐁 💛 • All are invited to our LLB Tribute Match at Cheviot Hills tomorrow as we honor our alum Braun Levi ’25 with a pregame ceremony:

🆚 | Loyola vs Geffen Academy
📆 | Mon, Mar. 2 • 2:00PM
📍 | Cheviot Hills Tennis Courts

#LiveLikeBraun | #LoyolaTennis | #C4L

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@jasonfurman Imagine(?!) the admin just ignores it. Then, this is just the “ruling” of the law. It will be victory for the “rule” of law if they don’t get away with that without consequence

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@arthur_spirling @GarettJones Great tweet. Raising a glass of Guinness to celebrate!

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@Rainmaker1973 Looks really fun! Should it be an Olympic sport??? We should table that discussion until further field testing can be done

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@JustinWolfers Well, no need to do the dishwasher then anyway….they cleaned you up!

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@KevG163

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@Legal_Fil My head is “spinning”!

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@kylenw Where is /would be Ovechkin on this chart?

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@barstoolsports @LAKings @LAKingsPR is that game and moment posted somewhere, YouTube maybe?

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@barstoolsports Oct 15, 1988 I went w my dad to the @lakings game w newly acquired Gretzky. Pre cellphone, was listening 2 the game on a hand held radio w rabbit ears. When Gibson hit the dinger, the entire Forum ERUPTED spontaneously, even before it was announced -everyone was listening!!