Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy
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Writer, infant
Joined March 2013
NEW POST. All my thoughts from the weird and wild world of toddler fatherhood. https://t.co/EzMoYhF910
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A two-year-old is a supremely strange person.
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A male lion and female tiger can produce a liger, the world’s largest big cat. A male tiger and female lion, by contrast, yield a tigon, which is noticeably smaller. Ligers (lion father, tiger mother) can exceed 400 kg (880 lb), dwarfing the typical male lion (230 kg) or female
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Smoking on airplanes was banned in 1990 for domestic flights and in 2000 for international flights. Incredibly weird people could still smoke on planes in 1999.
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The universal disconnect. Husband thinks wife is requesting a life coach session when what she actually wants is a therapy session.
Wife: <problem> Me: <solution>? Wife: I don’t want <solution>! How do you get past this dynamic?
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Brilliant piece from @glukianoff: "Free societies don’t automatically stay free; they choose again and again to be free. America worked because — at our best — we made a libertarian wager: When you let people think what they will and say what they think, you get more truth, more
This is a bit of a heavy piece for obvious reasons, but in it I take a nice diversion into why someone like me who has two parents who are both immigrants (with accents and everything), thinks of himself as the most American kid who ever Americaned.
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Did the results come in from this NYC mayor's race? I don't see anything on X about it.
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I'm on a plane and have to close this page now because strangers watching you doomscroll is like your brain being naked in front of them.
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I keep being recommended Godel, Escher, Bach, so I finally bought it. Now I have it. Do I actually have to read this thing or can I just have it be an impressive addition to my bookshelf?
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Toddler parents have very strong opinions and are very judgy about them
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Here’s why Britain should NEVER give up on itself 👇
Even when the chips are down. Britain's got to keep fighting. Because we can win again. Global poker champion @liv_boeree on lessons from her victories and how they can apply to ending Britain's decline 🚀
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I was in this class. Wild times. https://t.co/h6ivinxCGa
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Mansfield To Give Two Grades | News | The Harvard Crimson
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When I was there, a B+ was super easy but at least an A was hard. Not anymore.
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When I was there (2000-2004) grade inflation was already a huge topic. That was when less than 25% of grades were an A—now it's 60%! The main victims here are the top students who would get A's without inflation, who now have no way to distinguish themselves.
Percentage of "A" grades awarded at Harvard College— not grades that are in the A range, including A minus grades, but straight "A" grades—over the last 20 years.
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