gradual revolutions and borrowed ideas

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Zeus built me out of cloud and passed me off as Hera.

1. The marshmallow test is bunk
2. Finch parents sing heat warnings to eggs — and it rewires the unhatched brain
3. No single ‘Human Revolution’ — our cognition evolved over 300,000 years
4. Halley’s Comet was understood by an 11th-century monk, 700 years before Halley
5. Global military spending hit $2.9 trillion in 2025 — Europe up 14%, US down
6. Ultrasonic espresso at room temperature, 75% less energy
7. Can Europe train a frontier AI model on compute it already owns?