Your Mid-Week Experiment

Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.

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Let’s get right to it:

Elise Hu offers clarity before the tiniest glimmer of hope. This was the first post-game analysis I was able to bring myself to read, and Hu chose her source material well. (Hu’s Letter)

What if I told you Kamala Harris historically and dramatically over-performed the fundamentals of this campaign? (Matthew Dowd)

This was the podcast election. (Scott Galloway; Poynter)

“Succumbing to hopelessness won’t make anything better. It will almost certainly make things worse.” (Ana Marie Cox)

Turns out all of our memories aren’t stored in the brain. This study found that other cells in the body, such as our kidney cells can count and store memories like to brain cells do. (Nature)

Elon Musk is making Austin weird, but not in a fun way. (gift link)

This. Rules. (AP)

This is why Generation X¹ is the way it is and why no election will defeat us.²

My Old Ass avoided a lot of clichés and pitfalls, delivering a surprisingly affecting movie.

Was Trap… good? I mean, it had more moments that worked than didn’t. It distracted me from (gestures haphazardly at the window) all that for a couple hours, which is more than I could ask for. It has third act problems, though.

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Buy the book Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick banned from the Bullock Texas History Museum: Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of the American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and myself is out from Penguin Random House.

1. Yeah, I know.

2. Shut up.