Jeff Foust has a roundup of the story so far.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Alan Boyle has picked up the story, including an interview with me.
Should You Be Taking Resveretrol?
Derek Lowe is skeptical. I’ve been taking it, in liquid or pill form, for a year or so.
Water Depths
A great infographic from xkcd.
“Faster Than You Can Say ‘Furious'”
James O’Keefe pwns Eric Holder.
Bravissima, Jennifer Lawrence
“Screw PETA.”
More Thoughts On Social Darwinism
Over at Althouse’s place:
Strangely enough, “progressivism” was broadly associated with eugenics and racism and yet the only people who remember that are the people accused of being social darwinists.
There’s a lot more to unpack here than I have time for, but a key point made by another commenter is that no one calls themselves a Social Darwinist — it is an illegitimate epithet reserved for the perceived enemies of same, whereas many have been, and continue to be proud to call themselves Marxists and socialists. And they should be ashamed to do so, given the history of the twentieth century.
The First NASA Astronauts
We met them fifty-three years ago today. It was slightly over two years since Gagarin’s first flight, whose fifty-first anniversary is on Thursday.
Coregasms
Everything (OK, well, not everything) you wanted to know about exercise-induced org@sms:
Because I first began org@sming from exercise at a young age, not to sound cocky, but I have perfected it! I know when my body is about to coregasm, I know what exact workout to do to achieve that feeling. I have also perfected my face so that if I do have a coregasm in the gym it doesn’t look like I am. I have never been embarrassed about coregasming at the gym because my coregasms are never unexpected or unplanned.
Now whenever I see a woman exercising, I’m going to wonder: is she or isn’t she?
Hidden History
Günter Grass
An open letter and history lesson:
All this is well known. I should like you to think about something that is less well known, Herr Grass, and that is the fact that the First and Second World Wars were entirely unnecessary. That’s right: the fact that they were fought in the first place is entirely the fault of people like you, and specifically of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who could have pre-empted them in 1905. Kaiser Wilhelm II and Günter Grass: a couple of soul-mates.
Like some of the commenters there, I always found The Tin Drum unreadable, in German or English.