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Super sus that more people weren’t filming Babe Ruth with their smartphones in 1920.

“These dumpsters will take a toll on our psyches.” Can’t make this stuff up.😂

Also seems like it might be related to the recent termination of CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication). Students (and faculty who teach them) who can think and communicate for themselves without making money for some techbro are apparently not wanted in US higher ed in 2026.

(2/2) www.latimes.com/environment/...

Why a plan to filter bacteria from the Arroyo Seco is facing fierce oppositionA tiny parcel of land near Highland park is supposed to be key to filtering out fecal contamination from the Arroyo Seco. But some people don't want the lot — with its trees — to be disturbed.www.latimes.com

1918 “Spanish” Flu all over again. The country that actually reported on the disease got blamed and named for it, as opposed to all the countries that suppressed news coverage of it due to WWI.

In The Odyssey I was also not expecting to see a scene paying homage to the monologue scene in “Paris, Texas,” but here we are.

I’m glad to hear that!

The most accurate moment of the whole movie was when the astronomers from Michigan State finally talk to the NYT, and one of the NYT poohbahs says, “Has anyone at Harvard confirmed this yet?”

I know that their modern histories of forest management are different, but were any of these Canadian boreal forests ever subject to traditional Indigenous burning practices like forested areas in many other parts of North America?

If you have the opportunity to see the Autry’s “Life, Liberty & Los Angeles" exhibit, you should! (And not just because I used to work there!) It’s a fascinating effort to examine the USA’s 250th in the context of the long regional, transnational, and global history of LA and California.

Yes, we’ve had this long window since ‘94, and may not have used it wisely. There’s been retrofitting of steel buildings, but there are still lots of older concrete buildings and “soft story” buildings (dingbat apartments on columns over parking, etc.) that are extremely dangerous in a big quake.

Well thank god that’s fixed!

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Once we debated whether the future was going to be “1984” or “Brave New World.” Turns out it was actually going to be a race between RoboCop and Starship Troopers.