Average Price: Apples, Red Delicious (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average Average Price: Apples, Red Delicious (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average

I wanted to say "apple prices" (as for the McRib) but... nope: fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00...

That's why I lift at home, Anna. If I had to go to a gym I'd only go inconsistently. Minnesota winters are not conducive to going out.

I didn't want the one to say it, but yeah... I'm also not sure.

Like, I cannot emphasize how much I wish I had started lifting in my teens or early 20s instead of early 40s, and not because I would have gotten swole--it just would've made a significant chunk of my life so much better.

I'm a very cranky person (shocking, I know), but I've found that weight lifting REALLY helps my mood, and it has practically rid me of mild depressive episodes. I walk 40-60 minutes a few days a week, and I enjoy that, but lifting is what does it for me. I can share my very simple lifting protocol.

That still places you about six standard deviations ahead of the average American!

I agree. It was and remains a good song. But it was not the flagship 90s thing that hindsight made it out to be. It was a good single for its time like, say, "Under the Bridge," but not emblematical like "Teen Spirit" or "Sandman" or "Jeremy."

Oh man, "All Star" is a serious contender, I agree! It was everywhere before Shrek even came out.

Good choice! I hesitated between "Enter Sandman" and "Jeremy," but ultimately "Sandman" has become a runaway train. You don't hear Jeremy played at college football games!

Bernhard Dalheimer and I were interviewed on the Eat This podcast about our recent working paper on the geopolitics of food and agriculture. You can listen here: eatthispodcast.com/geopolitics/

"Enter Sandman"

Hey, so Québécois married to a Chinese American woman here, but to me, the maple xiao long bao is proof of how, ever day, we stray further from God’s light.

“Smells Like Teen Teen Spirit,” no contest.

I’m so sick and effing tired of anything that thinks of itself as “clever.” Like, just declaring something clever automatically negates any inkling of cleverness it might have once had a remote claim to.

robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face . ALT: robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face .

“8 reasons why you’ve been chewing your food WRONG this whole time!”

Mueenuddin’s 2009 book of short stories “In Other Rooms…” was such a good read! I just ordered this from Bookshop.org and look forward to reading it.

Sucks for the bike and the car, but glad you’re okay man.

Are you okay?

And do those Very Serious Scholars have books published by Harvard University Press? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

On a more serious note, I heard the same criticisms at my first job for studying ag econ and food policy. People tell themselves all sorts of things to sleep better at night.

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds,” said Einstein.

Maybe. But only mediocre minds mistake violent opposition with their being great spirits.

P \rightarrow Q does not imply Q \rightarrow P, geniuses.

It sure is. But the way they had us do this (or else!) in a very rushed fashion (and with minimal help, under a program literally called UDOIT) was maybe not optimal, considering this delay was entirely foreseeable?

Yeah. I had slightly higher expectations of my countrymen, and they managed to disappoint them in spectacular ways. I won’t even get into how they treated the student *during* the campus visit… and after, at a conference.

It’s full of Christian iconography!

Not in our case. A few years ago I was chair of a search committee. Once all calls had been made for our first-round interviews, I tweeted that all calls had been made, in a spirit of transparency. I was then asked by my supervisor at the time to delete the tweet. Why? HR.

Oh, so… UDOIT all for nought?

So sorry for your and your community’s loss, Erik. And so young, too.

“Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame. You give love a bad name.”

Some Canadian universities never tell you *anything.* One of my PhD students interviewed with a Canadian department, spent 2 two days with them in meetings and interviews. My student never even got the courtesy of an email saying “Thanks for your interest, but we made an offer to someone else.” 🦗

But also yes, this is what passes for news here in the absence of All of This or That.

For a while I was apparently the world’s foremost quinoa economist. There’s a reason that, for millennia, it was only grown at very high altitudes! And that it’s grown mainly in Colorado and the rest of the Western states in the US. It’s a very finicky crop.