131. Empire Strikes Back is only better than the original Star Wars if you accept the premise of the franchise as a serialized narrative. Star Wars is the better movie; Empire is the better Episode.

This is unironically the reason I became a Spurs fan circa 2013. Even their chaotic losses were wildly entertaining in the post-Bale era.

Old talks/papers rock. I remember fondly a grad school prof making us read Einstein's photoelectric effect paper. It's like a "Beatles curse", where it's so widely summarized as one of the GOATs, that it's easy to forget how much of an actual banger it really is.

It might be kinda far out there (literally), but I stumbled across this paper and found it interesting: doi.org/10.1096/fj.1...