You’re living the dream! Congratulations.

Tooling around Ottawa after hours in a jeep with former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge and Nobel prizewinning economist George Akerlof shooting the breeze about whether the value of money is nothing more than a fragile product of human society’s collective imagination.

I bought a copy as a gift for my Dad — really a beautiful work. Congratulations.

I remember when that kind of thing was the greatest show on Earth. Savour it — it's fleeting!

Woo.

Couldn’t we just build our houses in stilts or some such? Rope bridges instead of streets?

If I never saw someone vomit in a movie or on TV again, and if I never saw some toughie dressing their own wounds, I would be just fine.

Feels Ike “butterfly” belongs on this category as it is both an anagram and a spoonerism of “flutter by.”

I wrote a novel for my kid with a main character named Squeaky Paneer. I chose it so people could say things like, “Squeaky Paneer! It’s so good you’re here!”

I also am reading this book ATM. Dogged reporting and great writing.

Thanks for being a force for good.

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I will put in a plug for my second-most-recent book, Flow, Spin, Grow, all about the beauty and science lurking behind patterns in nature.

Endorse.

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I appreciate this thread. I always feel as though I'm supposed to be excited about crewed missions like this, at least on behalf of all the scientists and kids I know who are aspiring astronauts. But, well, I hope they get some nice pictures and stuff.

Taskmaster. So warm and funny and kind. And there are 20 seasons!

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What would you say the lower age-appropriate age would be for the Blues Brothers? Been waiting to share it with my kids.

I don't go for aimless drives, but I cannot visualize apples. Always have a song in my head.

I'd just like to thank everyone in this thread for helping to reassure me I made the right choice to go bald. Very low maintenance!

You may be equally pleased to know that “edit” derived from “editor” and not the other way around.

My friend Susan was quicker than my other friend Mary to make a joke about Winograd schemas because she’d had [more/less] coffee that day.

FYI, I preordered the book, and am very much looking forward to it.

This is very worth a read.

You've just got to turn that frown into a microgravity environment where there is no up or down.

Side point: “blogger” was part of the inspiration for “flatte,” a word I’ve been trying to coin for more than a decade meaning “decaf latte.” It has not yet caught on.

It’s an argument for continually working to reinvent and improve your craft.

I mean, there’s nothing like writing books to hammer home how few people have the time or attention for long-form journalism, but that’s not an argument against the form.

Sure. But also, aspire to have every sentence draw readers on to the next. Give them a reason to read on. And deploy design and/or user experience to provide as many entry points to the text as possible. Of course, most people will still drop off before the end, but it has ever been thus.

I get such satisfaction from cleaning the filters in the dishwasher, dryer, HEPAs vacuum, etc. Take that, food particles, dust and germs! We’re ready for the next round.