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Luke Yoquinto
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Science writer/researcher

Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
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Households in the 6-8 years prior to a dementia diagnosis wind up with HALF the household wealth compared to households w/o dementia. It's a huge effect and seriously underdiscussed. (Where the money goes, exactly, is still somewhat mysterious--explored here in my "leaky pipeline" diagram.)...
A visual metaphor for money being lost from households in the years leading up to a dementia diagnoses. A leaky pipe stands in for these households, with possible leaks stemming from rational decisions in response to dementia in the household (eg home renovations, medical expenses, reduced income due to caregiving); as well as new patterns made more likely by cognitive impairment, including bad spending habits, scams, and financial mismanagement.
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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When you see that font you know these chairs are inside
Gold-painted banquet-hall chairs
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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you get one word to describe the US Supreme Court and you go with something that sounds like it's from Tron: Ares
NYT headline reading: 'Hypercharged' Is the Only Word for This Supreme Court
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Piggybacking on this great Jeff Selingo article with a couple paragraphs from our 2020 book Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn. A "selective" university sounds good until you realize how much human potential it's turning away.
In fact, selectivity itself, and how we go about enforcing it, represents one of the more powerful, pernicious ways that our educational winnower squanders human potential. Slotting the best students into highly sought-after seats is, in its way, an admirable goal—after all, we should make the most of our limited resources. But the way we pursue that goal is built on a set of glaring assumptions: that our potential as learners is both knowable and fixed, more or less for life, perhaps starting as early as birth. These ideas, though highly debatable, comport with how most of us think about intelligence: If you’re smart now, you’ll still be smart in ten or twenty years. Or, as Lewis Terman, the father of American intelligence testing, wrote in 1919, “the dull remain dull, the average remain average, and the superior remain superior.” It’s hard to overstate the degree to which such assumptions became woven into the fabric of mass education in the United States, and much of the rest of the world, as the twentieth century wore on. Even today, many schools begin sorting students as early as the end of elementary school, as though their promise as learners were both set for life and entirely knowable. (It’s neither.) We attempt to fill them with facts as though their heads are an empty bucket. (The better metaphor, as I’ll explain later, would be a growing tree.) We spur them to learn with carrots and sticks like GPAs and test scores. (Instead, we could focus on building natural interest and curiosity.) Finally, at the end of this process, a very specific sort of student is left standing—someone who is in no way undeserving of further educational investment, but who is also in no way representative of the full scope of human potential that went in.
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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HBO catching strays in the Kimmel debacle
A Bluesky post reading: Cancelled Disney+, Hulu, & HBO Max on Wednesday evening. It took some doing because the webpage was having issues (later learned that was because so many people were getting on it to cancel!) i’ll be donating the savings to our local PBS affiliate and our local community radio station
September 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Disney minus
screenshot showing disney+ account being cancelled
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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There’s this Marvel mutant Isca the Unbeaten whose power is to Never Lose. That should mean her side always wins in a battle, but actually her power just causes her to switch to support whoever’s winning. So instead of being soo powerful she’s worthless. But anyway we were talking about John Roberts
A drawing of Isca the Unbeaten.
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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so much creativity went into this ad for leaded gasoline
Ad for leaded "ethyl" gasoline that uses an optical illusion involving a unicorn to make the point that leaded gasoline is better
September 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Still from the simpsons where Mr Smithers claims to Mr Burns that a booing crowd is saying “boo-urns”
August 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Imagine a boot putting big stamps on the economy — forever.
Quartz headline: Trump is poised to put more big stamps on the economy this week
August 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Van Halen album cover featuring Atlas holding up the world, bearing the letters VH.
July 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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The only Superman take I need
Taraxian • 3d ago I don't think any real band would've appreciated being called corny radio pop by Lois but I absolutely think that The Mighty Crabjoys is a reference to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and "The Impression That I Get" would be Clark's favorite song that expresses his whole philosophy in life
July 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Corey Glover of the band Living Colour singing "I tell you 'one and one makes three'"
June 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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thinking you could build a fantastic movie script out of this one Marketplace post
pic of George HW Bush, maybe from 1990?, with people in the foreground and background, each with their own agenda, some conversing, some not realizing they're being photographed. One dude has a killer mustache. Screengrab from FB marketplace: I bought a picture Frame off Facebook marketplace and underneath other pictures was this Random picture of George Bush"
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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One of the best paragraphs I've seen since Jan 20
In my Jewish name you and your entourage have destroyed research on cancer and heart disease, threatened to essentially deport my friends, and tried to increase Harvard’s tax burden fifteenfold. Stop it. Put that down. Let’s settle this like biological women: knock-down, TKO, cage match.
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Someone in The Villages just got this message from their lawn maintenance guy. Why does the GOP hate small businesses and nice lawns?
Good morning sir, unfortunately I will not be able to continue providing you with the service, things are happening in The Villages with the emigrants and although my wife and I are residents of this country and we have all the legal documents, we are immigrants and we do not know how to speak the language of this country, thank you for giving us the opportunity, I can recommend a very good company to provide you with the services.
May 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Corey Glover of the band Living Colour singing "I tell you 'one and one makes three'"
May 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Familiar with the two-staircases safety requirement in US apartment buildings, and how it drives up prices? Thanks to climate change, we could have that... but for whole neighborhoods. (h/t my old rugby teammate Des)
If you are looking at homes in the mountains with wildfire risk, consider neighborhoods with more than one access road. Having reliable ingress and egress, is one of the most important considerations for insurance underwriters today. Furthermore, the "one way in, one way out" assessment can extend to the evaluation of public (town or county-maintained) roadways. Neighborhoods with multiple points of egress may not provide the view and relative privacy but could be the difference in insurability and, consequently, affordability. In some cases it can be a total dealbreaker for new construction. I expect there to be some governmental intervention to guarantee coverage for some, but the reality is it will ultimately lead to the construction additional egress points and like the "taking" of private roads to provide redundant access for emergency use.
May 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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TIME FOR SOME PAPAL
Chicago Bulls mascot dunking
May 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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time to sign some papal
Chicago bulls mascot
May 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“I spent meant many long hours reading this big ol’ book and the Onion just… skeeted it out”
The book “Grasp” by Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto
April 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I hate this garbage
Cambridge University Press was not directly founded by Thomas Cromwell, nor was Cromwell involved in its founding. While Cromwell played a significant role in Tudor England and the English Reformation, Cambridge University Press is a publishing house, not a governmental entity or a foundation he established. The press was established much later, in 1534, after Cromwell's death in 1540.
April 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A Van Halen album cover featuring the letters “VH” and atlas holding up the world
April 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A Van Halen album cover featuring the letters “VH” and atlas holding up the world
April 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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In our 2020 book Grasp we argue that education systems focus too much on sorting and winnowing students according to their (supposedly measurable and immutable) innate talents—a preoccupation that gets in the way of teaching and learning.
Any plan to expand the learning horizons of people everywhere must involve recalibrating the educational winnower to be more inclusive, so that we stop turning away learners for such accessrelated reasons as income, geography, and timing. Necessarily, such a plan would involve adding “seats,” be they physical or virtual, to the world’s top-notch classrooms, for which demand is already high and growing. One force at odds with adding seats, however, is the all-too-prevalent idea that for a school to be top-notch, it must be “selective”—meaning it turns away most of its applicants. And therein lies a conundrum
April 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM