Monday, August 17, 2026

Happiness



A Large Regular has a very helpful perspective by Michael Lewis.


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The Math Gap


San Francisco Standard: A Berkeley mathematics class has students who are "five to eight years behind in mathematics."

An excerpt: "Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school."


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Big Salman

 


Kaputt


I recently finished Curzio Malaparte's novel, Kaputt.

It's fascinating, chilling, and beautifully written and yet the problem with Malaparte is you never quite know how much of the story is true.

And your biggest worry is that all of it is true.

Some Stories Linger in Memory

 The strange America West case in 1999.