- Okay, I am late to the party on this one, but my heart just grew two sizes when I discovered that Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr managed to surreptitiously, throughout the course of the 2022/23 NBA season, insert all the lyrics from the Taylor Swift song All Too Well into his post-game press conferences.
- The story of the Archimedes Palimpsest is fascinating. I saw someone mention it on Instagram and couldn’t believe it was true, but it appears to be a legitimate tale.
The team at The Athletic put together a compelling argument that not only is Mahomes worth his new half-a-billion-dollar contract, but he might actually be better than Brady.- I doubt you need me to tell you this, but Sally Field is just incredible in Remarkably Bright Creatures on Netflix. The movie is wonderful and we loved it.
- Renewables have surpassed global coal power for the first time in over a century! (The last time coal lost its lead as the world’s largest electricity source, the Treaty of Versailles was in review and Congress had just established a national park in Arizona named for its big hole in the ground.)
- Shohei Ohtani meets 100-year-old Nagasaki survivor
- Sure, they may be trying to jump on the Wordle bandwagon, and it’s a bit tricky to play, but the new Catalogues game from The New Yorker is pretty fun once you get the hang of it. – hat-tip @heidiyounggrasshopper
- You can’t produce a Field Notes edition of The Maltese Falcon and not expect me to automatically purchase it.
- This Smithsonian article explaining The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life was pretty interesting.
- Some good news on the public health front: Florida Republicans Refuse to Take Up DeSantis Bill Loosening Vaccine Mandates
- Need another reason to stop eating meat? A flesh-eating cattle parasite is spreading beyond Texas.
- The Voting Rights Act Was the Nice Version
- Asian jumping worms, an invasive, soil nutrient-gobbling earthworm that can leap a foot in the air, are moving rapidly across the country.
- A second detainee has died at an ICE facility in Louisiana where a recent inspection report found insanitary conditions, problems with medical care, and the use of excessive force.
Posts tagged “Steve Kerr”
- Please enjoy watching this 45-second clip of a group of penguins meeting a kitten for the first time in their lives.
- Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
- If You Give A Crocodile A Kawasaki Ultra 310LX
I’m excited to build this Andor LEGO MOC of the Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) Covert Resistance Art Gallery with my son.- America’s Most Reliable Public Transportation Subway Belongs To A Thriving East Coast City – via my dad
- A Little Good News on a Saturday Night
- Pioneering Olympic snowboarder Ueli Kestenholz dies in Swiss avalanche
- Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images
None of This Is Normal:
- “It’s shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there’s video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying.” – Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr – via @benross
- The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status, a war crime called perfidy. The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack off the coast of Venezuela. – via @kylegriffin1
- Jonathan Gerlach was arrested as he walked back toward his car with a crowbar and a burlap bag in which officers found the mummified remains of two small children, three skulls, and other bones.
- Six federal prosecutors quit amid the Department of Justice push to investigate the wife of Renee Good, the mother killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week. – via What A Day
- ICE detention has expanded rapidly under the current administration, both in terms of the number of facilities and people held.
- I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
I can’t possibly be the only person who heard that the Golden State coach was headed back to Buckingham Palace and wondered why Steve Kerr was at the coronation.