Posts by Anwar Uhuru, Ph.D.
Ewwwwww🤮
After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.
She accepted three.
One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...
An NBA player was quoted on a podcast as saying if your kid is good enough to be competitive then they’re too competitive to pay to play. It was a comment on the pyramid scam of youth travel leagues. Parents lit him up in the comments. I was reminded that no one likes to know they’re being scammed.
Darn, too bad this isn't for faculty.
The strike occurred the same day as a U.S. attack on a girls’ school in Minab, killing 175 people, an apparent war crime.
Using an untested weapon on an elementary school and sports hall, without clear knowledge of its effects, would seem to fit the bill of a war crime, as well. trib.al/tdl0XGl
The president said on Tuesday that Iran had given the U.S. “a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money,” but wouldn’t say what the present (read: bribe) was at the time.
Two days later, the president excitedly revealed the gift to a crew of reporters at a Cabinet meeting: trib.al/QrHpPWE
‘Wifredo Lam’s connection with Aimé Césaire is rightly emphasised. But the political upshot of their shared anti-colonialism appears reduced here to a generalised anti-racism.’
Tony Wood on the Cuban painter, at MoMA.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
meme screenshot - a poster has a bold slogan: “it’s a beautiful day to yell at god” and depicts three people shouting from a lawn up at a giant orange sun in a pink sky, “what the fuck?!” and “come out! we just wanna talk” (face us you coward)
if you aren’t an atheist anyway…
Crockett: "What if someone from another country said 'We're gonna bomb America bc we have a warrant for the president's arrest bc of the child sex trafficking in the Epstein files.' Every single one of you sticking up for him right now would be screaming. The analysis has to be the same."
Afroman found not liable.
A complete victory for the rapper and a massive unforced error from the cops and their attorney.
www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-...
gift article.
What a tragedy for all the organizations and people who looked up to him.. Time and time again, this is the story of men with temporal and spiritual power. Sexuial abuse. And women having to bear shame because of the evil that was done to them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
Sarah McLachlan: Tiny Desk Concert (2026) @npr.org #coffeebreak 🎶🎧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ND...
Their harmonies are crazy…This is a collab I didn’t know I needed but grateful it exists youtu.be/8imqfEKh5eU?...
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
To Thomas, almost every American judge who served over the past two centuries wasted their lives and careers. Rather than try to determine the Constitution’s meaning to the best of their ability, they should have all waited for Thomas to tell them what it actually meant. trib.al/YlIPngg
What if the verbal tic was Free Palestine?
Tourettes. or not, an apology is in order. Immediately.
@apaphilosophy.bsky.social
Allegedly John Davidson hadTourette’s and he had ticks that unleashed foul language. Among the other epithets Davidson shouted out loud “The N-word,” was said while Delroy London and Michael B Jordan were on stage
Brandi Carlile plays Minneapolis and tells Trump voters it's OK to change your minds: "There are a whole lot of people out there feeling duped"
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Please continue to celebrate the entire year. I did that for my 40th!