Certain similarities

Scott Alexander reviews All Therapy Books.

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Professor identifies with high-IQ assholes

A prof at Indiana U. is in trouble for Tweeting an article that says, “Geniuses are overwhelmingly male because they combine outlier high IQ with moderately low agreeableness and moderately low conscientiousness.” [Indiana Daily Student]

Now You Too Can Write like a President!

Tiny Hand free font [Fast Company]

Not typecasting

We’re now hearing that a studio exec suggested Julia Roberts for the title role in the Harriet Tubman biopic. There are two things I find unsurprising about that:

(1) A rich, powerful white guy was enough of an asshole to suggest it.

(2) The studio as a whole was not quite stupid enough to go along with it. [The Grio]

Hold our beer?

Israel indicted their corrupt fascist leader. Our turn. [BBC]