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Horses must think we’re mocking them when we use them to carry us around, then put them in trailers that carry them faster than they can run.
If Civ I had been a real-time strategy game, people who started playing a game the year it came out would currently be up to 3965 BC.
Is it likely that we’re underestimating the extent of metamorphosis in the fossil record because we’re mistaking different stages of the same organism for different species?
Investment theory of party competition
The Lord of the Rings spinoff the world needs right now isn’t Rings of Power or Hunt for Gollum—it’s a feature-length version of the Scouring of the Shire.
Turing speculated that the ability to act human would be the best indication of humanlike thought, but a better indication would be the inability to act otherwise.
The first evidence of human activity every archaeological expedition encounters is evidence of an archeological expedition.
Dionysian imitatio
I wonder what humans do when they’re not taking showers. And where does all this water come from? And how did I become sentient?
Maybe "CAESAR STABBED IN BACK BY BRUTUS AND CASSIUS" was just an ancient clickbait headline, and the actual event was a minor policy dispute instead of a literal assassination.
California opened college savings accounts for millions of kids. Why do so few know about it?
Shift-and-persist model
The first century BCE and the last century BCE are the same century.
People with six fingers can get away with anything, because everyone will assume that any videos of them were AI-generated.
What would be the drawbacks of a genetic code with 6 nucleotides instead of 4, but each amino acid could be coded with 2 base pairs instead of 3 (so the genome could be 33% shorter)?
Governor Newsom to deliver major address to Californians ("Democracy at a Crossroads")
If the Romans had put Jesus in a box with Schrödinger's cat, Christians’ souls would be in a quantum superposition of saved and damned.
Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
Emerging niche clustering results from both competition and predation. (My takeaway: more species can coexist in an ecological niche if they have distinct predators.)
If whales are ignorant of conditions on land, they probably think humans are an endangered species.
Sure—but I’d guess that the reason similar trends seem to be underway in Africa and Southeast Asia is that climate change has made the conversion of forest to pasture more profitable in the tropics than elsewhere.
In the Amazon all it takes to get profitable pasture is fire and a minimal amount of labor, but in Siberia the same investment would get nothing. Which is why the cattle industry buys the government of Brazil instead of Russia.