Monday assorted links

1. What happens to your returns? (New Yorker)

2. “The hobby of “collecting” had the highest average IQ.”

3. Is there a new accent developing in Antarctica?

4. How one man created a multimillion-dollar resale market for Buc-ee’s snacks (Texan throughout).

5. More Heidi Williams (and others) on speeding scientific progress, and the co-authored (various luminaries) Nature article is here.

6. One take on the roots of China’s current problems.  And “Also a widely published poet, his [Gewirtz’s] achievements echo the polymath scholar-officials in the Chinese tradition, including major historian poets from Ban Gu (32–92 CE) through Ouyang Xiu (1007–72 CE) and beyond.”  Link here.