Sunday assorted links

1. The Druid critique of progress (check out the guy’s bio).

2. Have researchers discovered (created?) a new colour?

3. “Our results robustly point towards a decrease in annual growth rates of approximately two percentage points during the first decade after implementing socialism.”

4. How are Chinese robots doing in races with humans? (WSJ)

5. The Wax and Wane of Greatest Common Factor Islam.  A New Jersey tale.

6. Arrow on the BBC, not a Monty Python skit.

7. Video, further data from the Navy.  30 minutes.

8. “The most interesting facet of the series involves the Lakers and their continuing effort to incorporate Dončić. Despite some awesome individual games, his numbers as a Laker are down pretty sharply from Dallas, and L.A.’s stats with him and LeBron James together aren’t imposing (just a plus-2.0 net rating).”  NYT link here.  And here is the o3 model on Houston vs. Golden State.  This is why Ringer.com is shifting more and more to podcasts for its NBA coverage.

9. Short TBPN podcast with me.

10. How did Athens come to look the way it does?