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I had no intention of writing about Hannah OR Daniel this week. I really didn’t. But then I saw this post from Hannah. “Hardly had the ink dried on our marriage certificate when it occurred to me I didn’t know how to cook. I was a 21 year old newlywed bride." I knew this post would be a doozy after the first line because the first line is really all that’s necessary to understand Hannah’s belief that part of being a “good wife” is being a “good cook.

The third book I'm reading this year for the Substack newsletter is The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma, by Mustafa Suleyman. It was released Sept. 5, 2023. This is the first post, explaining why I’m reading it. The second post, on why the coming wave is so, so big, is here. The third post, on the threat that the c… ncG1vNJzZmiin6PEor7DZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZMSpxYyipGaqlZaxqrrGZquhnV2YvK61zaBksJmmmnqjxQ%3D%3D

Chosen in: 1926 Chosen by: Football fans Happy birthday to The Low Major contributor Leah! Loyola University Chicago is well known for their rather unique nickname, but if old head football coach Roger Kiley had his way, they’d be known for a completely different unique nickname. Loyola Chicago’s first sports teams were known simply by their school colors: Maroon and Gold. But, in 1925, third-year football coach Roger Kiley ostensibly grew tired of coaching a team with no nickname, so he partnered with the Loyola News student newspaper to hold a schoolwide nickname contest.

I think that the incretin mimetics are the biggest deal in healthcare today. By incretin mimetics, I am referring to the weight loss drugs that are all over the place these days - Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Rybelsus. For today’s newsletter, I’m not going to belabor the same stuff that I’ve been talking about over and over again, but I will rehash it quickly: My read of the data is that tirzepatide (AKA Mounjaro) is a better drug than semaglutide (Ozempic).

This is this months free post, if you want to read more from Played on Paper, please subscribe using the link below. If I was to ask you ‘What is Kai Havertz’s best position at Chelsea?’, those of you who didn’t instantly reply ‘sat on the bench’ would struggle to give me an answer. He isn’t able to separate himself effectively from defenders to be a reliable number nine, but he doesn’t have the technical skillset or dribbling ability to play as a traditional number 10.

Noah here. If the name Punnet rings a bell, it’s probably from high school biology class. Punnet Squares are the four-box diagrams that were used to explain dominant and recessive genes. They look something like this: The guy behind them was named Reginald Punnett. He was a British geneticist and professor and, of interest to me, the inventor of a breed of auto-sexing chickens. It turns out it’s hard to discern the sex of chickens at birth, which is obviously important if you’re raising the birds and want to focus on egg-layers.

We’ve been reading Lane Florsheim (LF) in the WSJ for some time. She was initially introduced to us by a friend of WITI (and WSJ Mag assistant photo editor) Sara Morosi. She’s known for profiling interesting people and now we’ve turned the tables to see what is garnering her attention these days. - Colin (CJN) Tell us about yourself. I’m Lane Florsheim, a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal Magazine online.

Chad Renfro, an interior designer from Ocean Ridge, is going to the Oscars! Renfro, who had no prior experience in the movie business, worked as a consulting producer on Best Picture nominee “Killers of the Flower Moon” — that’s his name prominently displayed as the credits roll at the end. And this Sunday, he’ll accompany Martin Scorsese and other major players in the film crew at the Academy Awards, where the movie is up for 10 different awards.

Welcome to Gilmore Women: Two journalists discuss everything that’s wrong with every episode of Gilmore Girls & why we still love it Dear readers: A quick note before we jump in. We are officially more than halfway through this project of lovingly close-readi… ncG1vNJzZmifmaG6sL7EsKamnZ5jwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGxXZ7Ar8CMrZ%2Biq12ptaZ5xKebZqeWYr%2BwvthmmKec