Timothée Chalamet has been taking ping pong lessons since 2018 to prepare for ‘MARTY SUPREME,’ and continued while filming other projects.
“I had a table in London while I was making Wonka. On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for The French Dispatch. I got myself an Airbnb in a town [around] Saint-Tropez after The French Dispatch, overlooking the water, and I was taking lessons there.”
(Source: https://t.co/b2P97w1wTK)
What is the deal with playing “Country Roads” after the USA World Cup victory against BIH in Santa Clara, CA? How/why did that song become a sports anthem?
In any case, this essay (by @_JaeeonLee_) was pretty fun to read. Sometimes it's fun to see what shade of brownish green the grass is on the other side:
https://t.co/MStKawM5Lg
We recently launched an essay competition for which scientists described structural problems they run into. With nearly 200 submissions, we decided to give out 8 awards, instead of 3. A quick summary here 👇 1 / 5
The appeal to benchmarking as a way of solving this problem is attractive, but I feel like it's much harder to do so in the softer social sciences. Perhaps I am wrong though? Or maybe that we are just so much farther behind that even benchmarks would do little for us?
@jmurtazashvili There’s no one-size-fits-all model, but I think we need more of these kinds of perspectives and experiences reflected in the discourse — they definitely seem *under*represented at present