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I WAS DELIGHTED TO SEE THE HISTORY EXTRA FEATURE “Ask the Experts: What’s the Most Inaccurate Historical Film?”

ERIC VANCE DESCRIBES “THE STRANGE BRAIN OF AN F1 DRIVER,” The New York Times, September 4, 2026: “They move too fast for the normal mind to keep up,” Vance reports, “but elite drivers have more densely packed brain cells where it counts and use their minds

YESTERDAY WE WERE ENCOURAGED TO LOOK SKYWARD on the advice of Hannah Richter and her Science article “Planned Satellite Megaconstellations Could Generate Runaway Space Debris.”

HANNAH RICHTER REPORTS “PLANNED SATELLITE MEGACONSTELLATIONS Could Generate Runaway Space Debris,” AAAS Science, August 7, 2026.

I PREFACE THIS BY NOTING that I ignore lotteries, betting, and have no interest in participating in “prediction markets.”

MY NEW BGF AND I GET TOGETHER WEEKDAYS AT 5 A.M.

OPERATION FRODO IS A WONDERFUL STORY OF 12 volunteer drivers delivering 16 Beagles from Omaha, Nebraska, to Portland, Oregon, more than 1700 miles in four stock EVs over June 7 through June 10, 2026.

MY FREQUENT VISITS TO LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS are encouraged by a simple truism: Its writing is so blessedly good!

YOU GET MY GIST: Gladly (also a strabismus ursine) must I bear the onslaught of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE BEGAN ANALYZING THE BREAKDOWN of Trump’s dealings with our best friend Canada.