Assistant Village Idiot

Prehistoric hominids traveling in packs suggested the Yamnaya to me, though those were much later - just last week by this time scale.  Men...

 From Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine  

Megan McArdle and others have explained why we learn more from failing (oversimplified, yes). It is a good message to teach, that failures ...

 Via "Pineapple Street" on Substack

 The Isle of the Dead  It has an evocative sound, doesn't it, like The Well at the World's End and The Young King of the Black Isle...

Gout Gout is an 18-year old Australian runner whose parents are from South Sudan. He has stunning speed, but is inconsistent, likely because...

 Mary Jane Murphy, on Substack, writing about talking to trans activists and friends still "inside the spell." It is good advice ...

I have never heard the term "protected species " applied to Black people, in or out of sports. The anger against Brondello sounds ...

I grew up in an era when the mile record was broken by a little bit every few years and expected that to be normal forever. But that didn...

When Israel was founded, there was a culturally powerful Kibbutz Movement, which mixed socialism and Zionism and young people lived communal...

 No one ever got better at their job after taking up golf.  My source for this did point out some exceptions.

 From Ryan Burge , who has a current primary focus on religious statistics. I am unsurprised by this. I suspect it is the same in my own sma...

When we were in Chester, England over twenty years ago the was a young man on a main street trying to get passersby to purchase one of his s...

 

 I am not usually a Matt Yglesias fan, but there are worse thinkers out there, and he's not stupid. He makes an observation that instant...

Engineerlite sent me a Wall Street Journal article by Scott Atlas, of whom I had not heard who I had not heard of.  It describes how the Se...

You know bsking from Graph Paper Diaries on my sidebar, but she occasionally writes for her true crime blog as well, Exhibit Asterisk. She h...

I keep encountering that word in Wikipedia, especially about controversial political topics. I often sit back with a frown and say "I d...

Rob Henderson at City Journal on having babies and having friends.  It is his take on the Stone and Brooks study and recommendations I linke...

There is a reason why we focus on homicide when we discuss violent crime.  There is a body that the police and the statistics have to do som...