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Is it really worth it to shut off the AC when you leave the house? “As it turns out, the most efficient way to keep your home cool and the bills low is to leave the AC running,” our Wirecutter tester writes. https://trib.al/PXPfuwJ
June 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Is it really worth it to shut off the AC when you leave the house? “As it turns out, the most efficient way to keep your home cool and the bills low is to leave the AC running,” our Wirecutter tester writes. https://trib.al/PXPfuwJ
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In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
Sometimes working from home means writing down what the problem with the sink is for the plumber when you are on a work call. Thank goodness for wireless ear buds
June 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Sometimes working from home means writing down what the problem with the sink is for the plumber when you are on a work call. Thank goodness for wireless ear buds
Listening to Kathleen’s BBC radio documentary “America: The human plasma factory” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Documentary - America: The human plasma factory - BBC Sounds
Kathleen McLaughlin investigates the multibillion-dollar global plasma industry
www.bbc.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Listening to Kathleen’s BBC radio documentary “America: The human plasma factory” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Are grades of steel not produced by US Steel exempt?
So.
Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy.
Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy.
See the problem?
(I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)
Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy.
Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy.
See the problem?
(I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)
June 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are grades of steel not produced by US Steel exempt?
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Operation Paperclip would like a word.
May 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Operation Paperclip would like a word.
Sometimes working from home means checking if your WiFi reaches to the front porch after your Memorial Day picnic guests have left, and then you decide to get a few work things done
May 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sometimes working from home means checking if your WiFi reaches to the front porch after your Memorial Day picnic guests have left, and then you decide to get a few work things done
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I’d love to see a lot more cars like this on the street! Back to the era when they were actually beautiful.
Chinese dream with American characteristics for the New Era in #Beijing with this Songsan SS Dolphin retro-roadster (with Hainan plates!?), a copy of the Chevrolet Corvette 1958
For more info: carnewschina.com/2023/06/20/b...
For more info: carnewschina.com/2023/06/20/b...
May 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I’d love to see a lot more cars like this on the street! Back to the era when they were actually beautiful.
Only one day left to see Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)at the Frick Museum in Point Breeze. I’ve long admired her work since seeing her in the documentary “I’m going to make me a world”
May 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Only one day left to see Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)at the Frick Museum in Point Breeze. I’ve long admired her work since seeing her in the documentary “I’m going to make me a world”
No one will top this alumni news update ever
May 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
No one will top this alumni news update ever
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Info on my June 13 event in DC (talking about China + Southeast Asia with the talented @eosnos.bsky.social as my interlocutor) in poster form
May 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Info on my June 13 event in DC (talking about China + Southeast Asia with the talented @eosnos.bsky.social as my interlocutor) in poster form
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Here is our story on some of the $TRUMP buyers: folks who paid money to the Trump family and their partners in exchange for getting access to the president of the United States. A free link.
Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Here is our story on some of the $TRUMP buyers: folks who paid money to the Trump family and their partners in exchange for getting access to the president of the United States. A free link.
Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
Who Won a Seat at Trump’s Crypto Dinner?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
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A genuine pleasure to read and review @emilyzfeng.bsky.social's new book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom for Foreign Policy. An extremely readable, thoughtful and timely book (with real parallels to the United States). foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/c...
A Thousand Ways of Being Chinese
Emily Feng’s “Let Only Red Flowers Bloom” delves into identity in Xi’s China.
foreignpolicy.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A genuine pleasure to read and review @emilyzfeng.bsky.social's new book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom for Foreign Policy. An extremely readable, thoughtful and timely book (with real parallels to the United States). foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/c...
Feeling homesick for Beijing, so with no Chinese food I like in this part of of Texas, I went for Bavarian-ish tonight in a Czech-German heritage town
May 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Feeling homesick for Beijing, so with no Chinese food I like in this part of of Texas, I went for Bavarian-ish tonight in a Czech-German heritage town
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Yet another development… www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...
The U.S. and China announce a deal to cut tariffs, temporarily easing trade war
American levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yet another development… www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...
Kinda weird to see pictures from a Pope’s youth which could easily be in one of my parents’ family albums or yearbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America
www.nytimes.com
May 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Kinda weird to see pictures from a Pope’s youth which could easily be in one of my parents’ family albums or yearbooks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
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This is genuinely great.
May 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is genuinely great.
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(Lin-Manuel Miranda voice)
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
(Lin-Manuel Miranda voice)
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Updated!
Busy morning for historically informative institutions based in Chicago.
Busy morning for historically informative institutions based in Chicago.
May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Updated!
Busy morning for historically informative institutions based in Chicago.
Busy morning for historically informative institutions based in Chicago.
良十四世 not 良第十四个
Y'all, we need to chat about regnal ordinals...
It's *said* "Leo the Fourteenth," NOT "Leo 14"
It's *written* "Leo XIV," NOT "Leo the XIV."
It's *said* "Leo the Fourteenth," NOT "Leo 14"
It's *written* "Leo XIV," NOT "Leo the XIV."
May 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
良十四世 not 良第十四个
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Until i became a pilot, I really had no appreciation how much flying depends on weather reports. It's the bread and butter of aviation.
“Airplanes can’t fly without weather observations and forecasts; ships crossing the oceans rely on storm forecasts to avoid the high seas; farmers rely on seasonal forecasts to plant and harvest their crops which feed us.”
“Five former National Weather Service directors have taken the unusual step of signing onto an open letter warning that cuts to the organization by the Trump administration may soon endanger lives.”
Gift link: nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
Gift link: nyti.ms/3YrIw3Q
May 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Until i became a pilot, I really had no appreciation how much flying depends on weather reports. It's the bread and butter of aviation.
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Paul Skenes 🆚 Shohei Ohtani
April 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Paul Skenes 🆚 Shohei Ohtani
On Marketplace tonight, @kairyssdal.bsky.social asked how to say ”tariff” in a foreign language
Mandarin: 关税 guānshuì
As in:
这种东西关税很重 (copied from Pleco dictionary entry)
Mandarin: 关税 guānshuì
As in:
这种东西关税很重 (copied from Pleco dictionary entry)
April 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On Marketplace tonight, @kairyssdal.bsky.social asked how to say ”tariff” in a foreign language
Mandarin: 关税 guānshuì
As in:
这种东西关税很重 (copied from Pleco dictionary entry)
Mandarin: 关税 guānshuì
As in:
这种东西关税很重 (copied from Pleco dictionary entry)
Listened to this today. Really good interview discussing a really great book
In this episode of Barbarians at the Gate, @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social and I speak with @emilyzfeng.bsky.social about her new book, Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China.
An insightful book and a wonderful conversation!
blubrry.com/barbarians/1...
An insightful book and a wonderful conversation!
blubrry.com/barbarians/1...
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Listened to this today. Really good interview discussing a really great book