[Dave Matthews voice] I did it

Probably not my favorite Dave Matthews Band song, but it's definitely the one I reference the most.

I've got two tickets in my pocket, now baby, we're gonna disappear

Lithium

En passant: After the war, John Cade was made director of the Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital and moved his family into a house of the asylum grounds. The two hundred patients there included many manic-depressives and John became preoccupied by the “absolute failure” of psychotherapy to cure them. “Psychopathological explanations seemed to me to be singularly unconvincing,” he reflected, “and completely useless when it came to treatment or prevention of attacks.” He wanted to know the “essential nature” of the disease, and like many naturalists and herbalists and folk healers before him, he knew that the malady must come from some imbalance in the harmony of the body, in excesses or deficits or toxins.

In 1969: Forty-nine countries had approved the use of lithium, but the United States was not among them. Many years later, Cade himself would write that his cure was “made by an unknown psychiatrist, working alone in a small chronic hospital with no research training, primitive techniques, and negligible equipment.” Who could expect the Americans to care? In many official histories, American skepticism has been attributed to the lithia craze, to wariness around the substance in the decades after lithium had left so many Americans dead. But those with experience in natural remedies know the truth: the trouble was money. Lithium is found in water, in rocks, in soil, in the sea. It cannot be placed under patent. It has no commercial value. Even today, it can be made by pharmacists in-house, without the trade secrets of pharmaceutical conglomerates, without the true incentives of modern medicine.

Natural Medicine

 

Just like Adam and Eve, said you'd set me free

Top comment: "who is here because of the IG  the Gas Station Reel ?"

But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him

Female Warriors

While some female Norse soldiers had been found before, she was the first high-status female warrior ever identified. Or was she? The second it was suggested Bj 581 was a woman, every conclusion drawn about her when she was thought to be a man was questioned.

Maybe the grave goods were heirlooms or an homage to her family, and not about her. Maybe there had been another, male body in the tomb, and it had been removed while hers and the horses’ were left undisturbed. Maybe the 19th-century excavation had mislabeled samples. Maybe while chromosomally female, the individual had been intersex or had lived as a transgender man. Anything rather than imagine a woman may have led armies.

We've been very wrong about Stone Age women

Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it

I will wash the dishes While you go have a beer

I'm going hungry (going hungry)

The Changing English Language

But as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler.

By the middle of his post, he’s writing in what might as well be a foreign language.

But it’s not a foreign language. It’s all English.

None of the story is real: not the blogger, not the town. But the language is real, or at least realistic. I constructed the passages myself, working from what we know about how English was written in each period.

[...]

And verely this name dyd me ſore affright, for who was this Maiſter wherof he ſpake? And what maner of man was he, that his very name ſholde be ſpoken wyth ſuche reuerence and drede. I wolde haue fledde but he purſued me and by myn avys he was the ſwifter, for he caught me full ſoone.

How far back in time can you understand English? | Image by Paul Lehr

I'm running through the world like a running back

Mr. Worldwide himself! This is a cool video because it's got all these broads in lingerie, then Pitbull looking like the bad guy in a direct-to-video Underworld knock-off.

AI Articles

1. A.I. Isn't People: "I’ve watched all three of my children learn what a cat is, and in each case the number of pictures of a cat they needed to see was not “all of them.” It was like, two or three? Half a dozen, tops. I helped them learn to speak and read fluently, and the number of Reddit posts required was not “every Reddit post.” I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same as what a large language model does."

2. Child's Play: "The future they seem to envisage is one in which people don’t really do anything at all, except follow the instructions given to them by machines."

Classical paintings

There is a single explanation for the fact that the reconstructions do not resemble the statues depicted in ancient artworks, the fact that their use of color is un­like that in ancient mosaics and frescoes, and the fact that modern viewers find them ugly. It is that the reconstructions are painted very badly. There is no reason to posit that ancient Europeans had tastes radically unlike ours to explain our dislike of the reconstructions. The Greeks and Romans would have disliked them too, because the reconstructed polychromy is no good.

Were classical statues painted horribly?

our pets heads are falling off

"theres a miami in florida and a miami in ohio, theres an indiana in indiana and an indiana in pennsylvania"

I need the "Rich Men North of Richmond" internet freak to turn that into a viral sensation for us.

MIAMI (FL) +8.5 TEAM OF DESTINY

TIEBREAKER IS 1 POINT MIAMI WILL WIN 25-24.

My only New Year resolution is to win at least one segment of bowl pick them 2025

Miami vs Indiana (-8.5): team of destiny

Tiebreaker: 16 points

Still seems like this can't be right

This one's for all the Tostitos.

Miami vs Indiana (-8.5)

Tiebreaker if necessary: actual winning margin of victorious team. 

choo choo it's the lane train

beep beep, off the tracks, buster

Old Moist +3.5 This is a team of destiny. And by destiny, I mean institutionalized racism.

Indiana -4 Mean and nasty. Just knocking fools over. Taking what they want and not letting you even have a sniff. But enough about Taft, Nico, and New Madison. 

Indiana's name means "Land of the Indians", or simply "Indian Land".

Miami (FL) -3.5 v Old Mist: So does Old Mist have coaches? How is that working? 

Oregon v Indiana -4: I Believe

thumbs up!

 

All black, you can call me Johnny Cash (Johnny Cash)

We Truly Are The Home Of The Wonderful Pig

Semies:

Miami (FL) -3.5 v Old Mist

Oregon v Indiana -4

Picks by Wednesday afternoon?

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FISH GOES BLUB

 

*Staind voice* its been a whaaaahl

It's been a while since I did a score board.

I concede

MIAMI (FL) V OHIO ST (-10): sure

OREGON V TEXAS TECH (+1.5): wildcard! 

ALABAMA V INDIANA (-7): the good times

OLD MIST V GEORGIA (-7): the bad times

I concede!

Didn't wanna have to do it but I did.

Ohio St -10  In this context, thatsa lotta points, but Ohio St. is way better than Miami. And also almost everyone else.

Oregon -1.5  Oregon is my dark horse semifinal loser.

Alabama +7  I mean they're playing Indiana for pete's sake.

Old Mist +7  Old Mist had Georgia on the ropes and let them escape the ropes. I think this is a sailing metaphor? Perhaps it has to do with the boy scouts?

get a load of these freaks

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QUARTERFINAL SPREADS

MIAMI (FL) V OHIO ST (-10)

OREGON (-1.5) V TEXAS TECH

ALABAMA V INDIANA (-7)

OLD MIST V GEORGIA (-7)

my little soda pop

 

And it was fun, fun, fun when we were laughing

The new Superman was pretty good.

The clown with the frown drivin' down to the sidewalk fair

It's Bowl Season