Saturday 11th April was a great day for the Overton twins. Craig, leading Somerset, notched 141 v Essex, his best ever 1st class score. Meanwhile in the #ipl Jamie took 4-18 for Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Capitals, the best figures in the 2026 #ipl #cricketcounts
#OTD 1878 Kirstine Smith b (d 11 Nov 1939) inventor of optimal designs; her 1918 PhD thesis at UCL described G-optimal designs for polynomial regression. Her work was virtually unnoticed for almost a half-century until its rediscovery by Jack Kiefer in 1959. 1/4 🧵
From 2022, but just because…
“May be”?!
When the Aztecs looked at the moon, they saw a rabbit.
It was placed there by Quetzalcoatl to honor a rabbit who offered his body as food.
But not just any rabbit. This is a VOLCANO RABBIT (Romerolagus diazi), also called 'teporingo' or 'zacatuche', native to a small region around Mexico City.
That’s still so cool to me, and always will be! My dad used to tell my twin and I about how he would watch the shuttles take off when he was a kid, because you could see it from across the state in Florida.
Angus, a black and white corgi wears pink bunny ears.
Bonus Angus content:
What Brad said
The corruption of the administration started at Donald’s birth. From lying about his baseball and academic performance, to his failed companies, to now infecting government and corporate America. This is part 3 of the three part series “Going Deeper”
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."
FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."
hmm
NASA is requesting that folks all take a quick break from trying to track Artemis II's position on their website so that their scientists can precisely measure its velocity.
wow, looks like a rough patch for stocks AND bondis
Cool fact: Congressional subpoenas apply to private citizens and government officials equally.
In the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost writer
A human hand holds a plastic object that is a sort of prism or rectangular plastic object the size of a USB thumb drive. It has blue and red lines that meet in the middle, but sort of cross at each end, producing an extended "X". CREDIT: EMULATE
Let's learn about some medical research that just left Earth on Artemis II, bound for the silver sphere in the sky.
It's AVATAR, but it doesn't involve blue aliens.
It stands for "A Virtual Astronaut Tissue Analog Response" & it looks like this USB drive-sized device.
Watching “the party of personal responsibility,” as they literally never shut up about for decades, transform into “everything bad is someone else’s fault” is a fun experience. It was always horseshit but they’re not even trying anymore
satire/news:
We’ve done the impossible, everyone: losing a war with no objectives.
new Expecting Goals newsletter on the origins of the set piece revolution in the Premier League
Corner kicks and long throws have accounted for nearly 1 in 4 of PL goals scored this season
How did this happen?
There are two clear innovators: Brentford and Arsenal open.substack.com/pub/expectin...
Protesters gathered along Grant Street in front of Pittsburgh’s City-County building Downtown for a third round of the nationwide No Kings protests Saturday. More than 15,000 people were in attendance, according to city officials.
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed two prominent Lebanese television journalists and a cameraman, according to their news organizations and Lebanese officials. The attack was condemned by the country’s president and rights groups.
11 days ago, POTUS says the US has "destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability"
Now
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2 days ago: POTUS says the US has "destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability"
Today: Iran successfully attacked oil production in Qatar.
www.straitstimes.com/world/middle...
People focus only on the fact that the Gulf countries have exported oil and gas…They also export capital. Today they are huge players in the world financial system..Their sovereign wealth funds are really very significant forces.” said David Yergin, oil industry guru & Vice Chair of S&P Global.
Operation Epic Finding Out
Got the signs out.
This is such a satisfying lede. I love this for her. www.chronicle.com/article/elis...
