Eight quick links for Monday morning

Sad YouTube. Mark Slutsky collects meaningful personal stories found in YouTube comment sections before they are deleted. After publishing one comment recently reminiscing of a childhood crush in the ’60s, someone wrote in to say that they were the person mentioned.

Dan Ariely has been accused of fabricating research into … dishonesty. Speaking of crushes, one of the darlings of the cognitive behavioural science field. I loved Predictably Irrational.

Train travel in Australia is terrible because of the way the Federation was constituted. I had never really thought about it but, it makes perfect sense in retrospect. High-speed, electric train travel in Australia seems like a pipe dream.

Have you heard anyone say “whom of which”? It’s a linguistic trend that’s breaking my brain just learning about it. It may be related to the “pied piping” phenomenon where multiple words move left in speech over time, or perhaps people just think it makes them sound smarter.

Turning Chopin into Jazz. A short clip that makes me smile every time I watch it. My only criticism is how short it is! I wanted it to go on forever.

The Most Insane American Wagyu Steak I’ve Ever Cooked. My youngest is into cooking and recently asked me “what’s Wagyu, and why does everyone say it’s so good?” I sent him a link to Kenji López-Alt’s. Naturally, we went straight out and bought the closest thing we could find and had it for dinner. It was delicious, thanks for asking.

Eggslut bills itself as “A gourmet restaurant for true egg lovers”. I’ve not been there but Warren Seen went with his family recently and said his kids found the whole concept, challenging.

Xingyi Quan, imitating the movement of the spear. Unsurprisingly, I’m a sucker for videos on martial arts techniques.