Beyond Euclid #219

Hello from Beyond Euclid 219. Hope your week treated you well.

This one has a lot of education data that’s hard to look away from — math scores, dropout rates, a cannabis study that’s been sitting quietly while legalization keeps rolling. A whale eye that’s better than the Mona Lisa, and a tragic follow-up. Pablo Escobar’s hippos, now at 200 and climbing. A robot that taught itself a table tennis move no one programmed. The dead web, AI’s bill coming due, a soldier who bet on his own mission, and a village in Sicily that hasn’t changed since The Godfather was filmed there in 1971.

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