David Hsu

“Christmas tree liberalism” is actually a critique of liberals but sounds like WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

If “Korean bbq brisket taco” liberalism is how we describe a multiethnic coalition, count me in.

The problem with critiquing “everything-bagel-liberalism” is that everything-bagels are far and away the best flavor.

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction. n.pr/4oh42lZ

Maybe in the short term, since there’s not much the governor can do to affect rates except short-term spending. In the long term it would matter because the Republican supports Trump’s arbitrary & capricious revocation of permits for offshore wind, which could help lower energy costs in the future.

No, rising electricity costs are actually happening and have been for awhile.

... following all of these earlier.

22% Jump in Electricity Rates Dominates New Jersey Governor’s Race

Many more articles like this are coming across the US .... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/b...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

This is uniquely-California-weird: wapo.st/4q5wR6S

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

A thoughtful appreciation of slow science and “plodding curiosity”. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a gray shirt on

TFW you are sorting your time-stamped project files, and realize that the project started six years ago ....

Do they jump in on other issues or are e-bikes especially salient to them somehow?

The work winning this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is science-fiction-like-materials-wizardry, but this insight about people from one of the winners (also a UCB alumnus!) is particularly profound: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

Two delightful geographic aspects of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum tunneling:

1. Award to an American, a Brit, and a Frenchman (sounds like a WW2 movie or joke)
2. All 3 affiliated with the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara)!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discoveries about the immune system Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel Prize for fundamental discoveries about how the immune system keeps itself in check.

Nobel Prize Week, a great week to celebrate how scientific research can improve everyone's lives and how discovery helps to understand our place in the universe. I'm especially excited by prizes given to multiple countries, a reminder to work together. wapo.st/3WmtESD

Five Pearls of Wisdom From a Legend of Financial Writing

I was a reader of his for many years. Rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

Iranian Diplomats in the U.S. Are Barred From Shopping at Costco

Trump administration chooses the nuclear option. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

I haven’t been on social media much lately, but where can I read coherent reactions to, and thoughts about, this article? (Coherent, so not the comments section)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

Picture of a blue Brompton folding bicycle.

Very satisfying to overhaul the bike I ride everyday. Everything wore out at once, so I replaced the front rim; tires; grips; brake pads, levers, and cables; and chain. Rides like a dream now!

So much good food there also.

Picture of hardcover copy of Mick Herron’s new novel, “Clown Town”

Goodbye for a couple of days.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

I don't think I'm spoiling the last line by quoting it, from this fine essay:

"We need to get up from under our desks and persuade our fellow citizens that the institutions that they have helped create with their tax dollars are incredibly precious and important." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

(Unknown to me, but maybe you, the Babylonians, and their followers knew all along)

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date (Gift Article) Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

Nice to see the NYT building such nice interactive tools. I clicked on it out of curiosity; the architecture of the article, links, and graphics drew me in; and now I find that I would have been the previously unknown 13th Babylonian sign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mike Johnson claims that Trump was an FBI informant who was trying to take down Jeffrey Epstein.

The cat mayoral race: meet 11 runners and riders in the US’s most furious – and furriest – election It has been the talk of Somerville, Massachusetts this summer, with the winner announced later today. Will it be the candidate who promises free kibble or the one who speaks gnomically of ‘CRIME’?

Important local special election. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"NUMBERS ALWAYS TEND TO BENEFIT THE LEFT"

Wow that is not a good jobs report.

Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report

Climate deniers set pen to paper in order to provide an alternative evidentiary basis, but doing shoddy and rushed work also just seems to open them up to ridicule. Read some of the scathing comments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...

Pickleball Courts Taking Over Tennis Courts, as Seen From the Sky (Gift Article) Aerial photographs show what’s happening all over the country: There’s only so much asphalt, and pickleball can’t get enough of it.

GOOD
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...