Japan's MINERVA rovers landed on asteroid Ryugu. This rules. http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/topics/20180922e/

This morning, prompted by this clipping from @leonardr's great novel Constellation Games, I started a new season of the email newsletter PRIMES with a recommendation to read the book: https://tinyletter.com/primes

Random entry from the notes file. It's possible 10% of my notes are of the form, "X! What a name!"

I've hoped Dan Bouk would post something about these colorful paper wheels ever since he first told me about them. They are tools used by the pioneering statistician Alfred Lotka in the mid-30s to work through the probabilities governing a life; they're like odd, flat dice, with the sides all weighted differently. Does that even make sense? Read Dan! He explains them better! http://censusstories.us/2018/08/11/foudray.html

Was just reminded (by an exchange with @jeffreymoro) of the etymology of glamour—clearly a top-ten etymology

The scooters have arrived on my street!! I would genuinely love to know what map on whose app was like, "place these… HERE" and why.

This is your recurring reminder that False Knees is one of the five or six best things on the internet http://falseknees.com/