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Extended Family is likely to be canceled. Its 2024 episodes drew ratings of just 70% of NBC’s scripted average, it’s a rookie, and it’s co-produced with Lionsgate, all negatives. Edit 4/2: ABC has renewed 9-1-1 and Grey’s Anatomy. Edit 4/3: ABC has renewed Will Trent. Edit 4/4: NBC has cancelled Quantum Leap. #ReaperWeek, when you’ll finally know all the renewal and cancellation news is just 5 weeks away! Renanceled* (renewed for a final season, ending in '23-'24)

A Bird in the Hand - by Mr. Fish During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was reporting for The New York Times, we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel and medicine that Israel has imposed on Gaza. We never endured hundreds of dead and wounded a day. We never endured the complicity of the international community in the Serbian campaign of genocide.

New to fine writing? You probably keep hearing about the same handful of classic pens; this post demystifies one of them. It has been thoroughly researched by our world-class staff so you should feel no need to fact-check any of it, even the part about vampires. Few pens are as widely known and loved in the fine writing community as the Kaweco Sport. It’s a versatile pocket pen with a long history and an entry-level price point that’s perfect for bright-eyed newcomers and decrepit aficionados alike.

Hey, it’s Devansh 👋👋 In my series Breakdowns, I go through complicated literature on Machine Learning to extract the most valuable insights. Expect concise, jargon-free, but still useful analysis aimed at helping you understand the intricacies of Cutting-Edge AI Research and the applications of Deep Learning at the highest level. I put a lot of effort into creating work that is informative, useful, and independent from undue influence. If you’d like to support my writing, consider becoming a premium subscriber to my sister publication Tech Made Simple to support my crippling chocolate milk addiction.

I opened my first Facebook account in 2006. My Facebook debut follows a common millennial-aged pattern. I was entering my freshman year of college, and I was eager to use my new .edu email address to sign onto what I’d heard described as a slicker-looking version of MySpace that didn’t let users auto-play tracks from their favorite rap-rock band. Getting a Facebook account felt like an entry-point into adulthood, a means by which me and my same-aged cohort might socially network, post photos, and find out about inappropriately-aged parties where someone might give us beer.

When Nolan Ryan first hit the big leagues, nascent technology to measure ball speed clocked his heater at 101 mph. Catcher Jerry Grote, who caught him frequently as his New York Mets teammate, swears it was closer to 108. He was basically Nuke LaLoosh from “Bull Durham” — a big, lanky kid with a lightning bolt for a right arm, but with control problems so bad at times he could barely keep it over the plate.

Does everything need to be methylated to be made usable in the body? Does T4 need to be methylated in the gut to become T3? Is methylation so important yet carbs unimportant? Did you know that glucose mainly provides the methyl group of methylfolate?! Is sleep really all about methylation? Is a $500 test covering 5 genes really the best way to learn about what makes you nutritionally unique? Watch my breakdown above!

Yesterday was the big, every ten years or so, grand meeting of the entire Indiana University faculty. Well, actually only 900 of the 3000 attended, but it was a lot. I could say my photo was fuzzed up on purpose, but it’s a lucky accident. “Lucky”, because a number of the junior and non-tenure track faculty (zero-research lecturers) said that IU has a climate of fear and they didn’t want the targets of the meeting to know who they were.

“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph Campbell Aesthetic Arrest is our weekly dip into the Epicurean pleasures we’ve been enjoying lately. Cheers to that! This Week’s Apéritif: Qershi Cola Cocktails (Cherry Raki, Sour Cherry Juice & Coke Over Ice) Ryan Wildstar’s Recommendations: Reading: The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain by Sofia Samatar