Newmark's Door

Musicals and westerns are way down. Horror and documentaries are up. Surely there's at least one Ph.D. thesis coming to explain this.

A spooky UFO story gets thoroughly debunked by the prosaic.

Yet another place where chronic inflammation could matter.

I've had a good time with mine.

And a darn good thing it is.

That, of course, won't stop them from still being made.

And to fend off the apocalypse we now have "chief heat officers".

Ain't that the truth.

Well, many Liberals don't learn. I think at least a majority of conservatives understand this.

Of possible historical and maybe--Let's hope not!--future interest.

Coming soon: Liberals call for squiddly trillion $ more spending so we can "move the needle".

Related: "Hyping the Energy Transition".

What was striking to me about this article is how widespread the problem is. US-only explanations won't cut it.

An OECD survey, based on a Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) measure of 64 countries, summarized the situation this way: boys “are less likely than girls to attain basic proficiency in core subjects, report investing less time and effort on schoolwork, and express more negative attitudes to school.” Boys get lower grades and attend university less often than girls across the developed world—and increasingly in developing countries, too: one 2019 survey cited studies confirming a gap in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Qatar, and Oman, among other places.

Another seriously dopey Federal government prohibition.

I think the author is right. And I further think that Elon will sell, or at least relinquish control of, Twitter in a few years.

In case you missed it, Bono has seen the light.

Charlotte and Raleigh ranked in the top ten.

A whole lot of excellent moves.

But why does evolution select for this?

Why NFL coaches don't try more fake punts is left as an exercise for the reader.

Bill Burr, funny and true.

A little Jamaican music from Toots and the Maytals.

Yet another reason why the music of today is not as good as the music of my youth.

(Here's the paper, online and free.)

I'm surprised that India has the top three.

Article claims "90 percent of households consum[e] peanut butter in the U.S."

Article raises an interesting question--Why does baseball in the U.S. seem less important than it used to be?--and then expands the question to movies and music. But I don't think "moneyball" is the right answer.

Fair warning.

Sure surprised me.

Not something you see every day.