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You’re reading The Long-termist’s Field Guide, a newsletter about long-term thinking. This month’s edition is about units of time that you may not have heard of - from Methuselahs to Musks. Around a decade ago, when I was a feature editor at New Scientist, I worked on a special issue called The Deep Future: A Guide to Humanity’s Next 100,000 Years. As part of that, I spent an afternoon with paper, pen and a calculator to calculate an infographic that spread across ~10-12 pages.

Hey pals, Before we begin, a bit of housekeeping. You may notice few changes around here. I’ve been doing a lot of work and thinking in the background on how I can take Trailmix to the next level. To become a bit more professional, if you will. This starts with working on the brand. I worked with a great friend and brilliant designer Ben Sewell (who doesn’t have a website yet) on redesigning the Trailmix logo.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — This is not the Inter Miami we are used to seeing. Inter Miami secured passage to the knockout rounds of the Leagues Cup on Tuesday night after routing Atlanta United, 4-0, at Drv Pnk Stadium. Lionel Messi and Robert Taylor led the way with a brace apiece, but nearly every player on the attack-minded South Florida side enjoyed a good night against an overmatched MLS opponent.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Caleb Stapleton has become the youngest person to graduate from Harvard University at the age of four years old. Valedictorian of his class, Caleb received two Bachelor of Science degrees, double-majoring in Physics and Electrical Engineering with minors in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. He also wrote for the Harvard Lampoon, sang a cappella, and was on the national debate team. Caleb was a CRISPR baby, genetically designed by his parents to maximize his IQ.

July marks 40 years of Hudson Soft’s (and Konami’s) Bomberman franchise. Throughout the month, I’ll be covering Bomberman games, the versatility of its protagonist, and the legacy of both. Previous entries in the series can be found through this link. Back when Hudson had their own console to worry about, Neutopia was their homegrown action-adventure series. Heavily inspired by Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda, Neutopia arrived on the PC Engine and Turbografx-16 in 1989 and 1990, respectively, with a sequel following for the same platforms in ‘91 and ‘92.

Brown University arrested 41 of their own students on Monday evening, students who refused to leave University Hall over the Brown Corporation's refusal to divest from companies that profit from Israel's war in Palestine. On November 7, 20 students with the group BrownU Jews for Ceasefire Now were arrested and charged in a similar protest, only to see those charges dropped in the wake of the shooting of a Palestinian Brown University student, Hisham Awartani, in Vermont during Thanksgiving break.

A few weekends ago, Andy and I took a 55-minute flight from New York to Montreal to celebrate our 20th anniversary. I had never been, and we were only going for 48 hours, so we had some crucial decisions to make, especially as those decisions related to eating and drinking. There is only so much one can consume over the course of two days in one of the more serious eating cities in North America -- Montreal definitely lands squarely in the category of Food Anxiety Town -- and by all accounts, we felt like we did things right.

Recently, I did a weekend long road trip, and then promptly fell sick for a week (thus the delayed publishing of this post, sorry folks!). During my weeklong nasal-congestion-induced stupor, I kept thinking about the stretch of drive over the Blue Ridge Mountains where I listened to an old podcast episode of Radiolab called, the Wubi Effect. Listening to that episode sparked a lot of fond childhood memories. Wubi (or Wubizi 五笔字) is a keyboard input system specifically designed for typing Chinese characters, based on how they look.

March is Women’s History Month and includes International Women’s Day (on March 8). That’s my tie-in for today’s reviews of five K-dramas, where the female characters have the most interesting roles and get to do a lot more than wait to be rescued. Without further ado, here are my reviews of: ° Flower of Evil(악의 꽃) ° Happiness(해피니스) ° The K2 (더 케이투) ° My Name (마이 네임) ° The Uncanny Counter (경이로운 소문): Season 1