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I wanted to share this reel from @kedseconomist.com . Good stuff and clearly shows we need tax reform here. www.instagram.com/reel/Db6NurD...

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

A period drama, a Supreme Court case and voice our film critic hadn't heard in decades.

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

In a series of 3 papers and preprints, we’re thrilled to share with you the working laser phase plate. In collaboration with research led by Holger Müller at UC Berkeley, this is a huge innovation in imaging to make small and faint objects inside cells visible. bit.ly/4vK9LVn

This is great news.

How students leverage self-delusion to beat procrastination: Our new field study shows that university students strategically inflate their believed returns to effort by 20% as exams approach, proving that biased beliefs function as an instrumental tool for self-control.

Sonny Rollins starter pack: 1/ If you have never really listened to this guy and wondering where to start, the album Saxophone Colossus (1956, Prestige Records) is a near consensus choice. It showcases Rollins’s genius at a very early stage. youtu.be/_YynSucmcQo?...

Dutch film-maker Jan van IJken condensed 4 weeks of development in a salamander embryo (Mesotriton alpestris) into a 6 minute video, presented here sped up to 1 minute. You can see gastrulation at ~the 10s mark, forming the gut, then limbs & in a moment, the heart just *begins* beating.

Love this. Absolutely sublime.

46 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show. Sandra-Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

TikTok has some amazing niche content and if you’re in to linguistics at all it’s got you covered. This guy does amazing content on dialect. Part 1/2

For the good of society, individuals should be way more concerned with obligations than with rights, but societies should be way more concerned with rights than with obligations

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

Larnin’

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

When someone says something nice about us, it can make us feel awkward and uncomfortable. Researchers explain the science behind those emotions — and make the case for accepting genuine praise.

Slightly diminish a band: Maybe

RIP the great Tom Lehrer and a reminder to all of his excellent songs on the original Electric Company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kftn...

they can only take what's pure from us if we let them

Just watched young people participating in the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute perform (streaming on YouTube). Heartwarming to see young people from all sort of backgrounds pursuing excellence in music!

Been a busy year in the data mines.📊 Just published my mid-year roundup: 29 data visualizations on the state of US democracy, tracking everything from judicial resistance to billionaire influence to why Dems have a mobilization crisis, not a moderation problem. All charts free to use:

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

Chicago releases “Saturday in the Park” as a single today in 1972 — a song written when Robert Lamm visited Central Park, then returned to the band’s hotel “excited after seeing the steel drum players, the singers,” bandmate Walt Parazaider recalled. “I said, ‘Man, it’s time to put music to this!'”

(122) Erroll Garner plays Misty - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_tA...

2025 candidate filing is underway in North Carolina It's easy to ignore these municipal elections (and, they're more than a bit confusing to follow), but they're critical. Here's a 🧵about the characteristics of these elections & these electorates, and why you should care. #ncpol (1/10)

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

There's no path out of the crisis that comes from shrinking the circle of who deserves public services, or narrowing the aperature of human dignity. We are invariably in this together.

I don't know if this is the best humpback whale breaching footage of my life, but I SAID IT WAS when I took it! 🦑

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

Trying to learn about others’ experience of the world, even in a small way, seems worth celebrating today.

Wishing you a happy #FourthOfJuly. Let's deepen bonds with friends, family, & neighbors. The U.S.'s founding ideals & foundational challenges still inspire. Establish justice Ensure domestic tranquility Provide common defense Promote general welfare Secure blessings of liberty How can we, 🇺🇲?

Happy Fourth of July, everyone. ❤️ 🇺🇸

Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.

We wanted to sing one for Brian Wilson last night at our show at the Chicago Theater. The rehearsal may have had more magic…

Stop believing that your brain peaked in your 20s... it's not true but it might become a self-fulfilling prophecy if you stop challenging it www.ft.com/content/5d47...

Thinking of the countless American lives lost and the thousands of brave men and women who answered the call of our nation with great courage and honor. Memorial Day and all days we thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our freedoms and keep us safe 🇺🇸

I don't know of any non-jazz musician who is as likely to string together a sequence of notes you have never heard before as David Rawlings is www.stereogum.com/2307098/watc...