Hence the quirky Animal Planet threads.
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Why do we like blowing bubbles?
(This is not a bitcoin thread, go away)
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Hence the quirky Animal Planet threads.
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And so I started painting a picture about bubbles.
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And then one started flapping.
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And so a few more flapped.
And as is the way with exercise, certain endorphins were released
And it felt good to flap.
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The tree was abuzz, and the energy was bright and intoxicating.
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But the flapping wasn't about logic, it was about feeling good.
So the non-flappers were wrong, in a way.
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Except for the non-flappers, who still just ate their aphids and did their non-flappy things.
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But the aphids were less plentiful.
And so the flapping began to feel less good, for there was less fuel for it.
And the buzzing dimmed.
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While most of the ladybugs rushes around in a provisioning frenzy, the non-flappers were calm, still fat with their stored energy.
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Clearly non-flapping had been the prudent, safer play.
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Foe they also had missed out on the beautiful euphoria of the flap, stoically sacrificing it for a calmer, more serene experience over time.
Perhaps in the end such things are a matter of appetite.
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Stay tuned; some fun stuff lined up.
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We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
