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In Chicago, getting mindblown by Eric Harland 🫠

since its release 10 years ago in october 2014, only an hour and 16 minutes have passed on miller’s planet in interstellar

Completely lost my voice on the last day of my favorite conference (overuse? can you recover from a cold and get laryngitis a week later??) and wow can't believe Ariel signed up for this voluntarily, do not recommend 🙅‍♀️

Desperately need a break from doom scrolling election news & grateful for these flowers from my spouse -- prettier to look at!

About to watch Tenet for the first time and I enjoyed it

2024 your election pants 🤝 me wondering how it's this tight

To focus on good news while we wait: congrats to Andy Kim, the first Korean American senator!!! 🎉

Today I have to teach Mengzi on human nature being "good"-- that we are inclined towards the good, we just need to extend our good impulses further and further, and in a healthy environment we all turn out well. What a timing.

I wish past Hannah was thinking harder about when this presentation will fall, but alas, still very much looking forward to giving this talk this afternoon

One never regrets a hike

Kettle chips are great because the crunch is louder than my thoughts

When you google "dutch angle," the search results come tilted 😎

Wow your bio can't include 🔵 (but 🟦 is fine?), so deliberate and silly

The cello in The Conclave's score should win an Oscar for best supporting

The really crazy thing to me is that a time-traveller to the 5th century BC could meet the Buddha, Socrates, Laozi, Confucius, Plato, Zoroaster, Sun Tzu, Sophocles, and many more. What the fuck was in the water back then?

Featuring: Adam Roberts interviewing Emily Osborne in The Paris Review about her translation of some skaldic poetry, Mathew Lyons in Engelsberg Ideas on the 50th anniversary of “Blood on the Tracks” and Hannah Kim in Aeon Magazine on the definition of fiction. Read now!

My latest for Aeon!

I need this done to my mind