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Seriously, we should get to work planning this thing. Unprecedented times call for radical ideas.

Maybe some high-rise condos can replace the residential units, and now instead of a 100-year old home they get a penthouse on the 10th story with a view of Kinnick? Sounds like an upgrade, to me.

Maybe we need to wipe out University Heights, and replace it with HawkTown? I am sure we can get some eminent domain going to support that.

What I really want them to copy is CyTown, but geographically, not sure how you do that. Maybe with a new BB arena somewhere out on west Melrose?

Gotta tip your cap to them, they have built something over there.

Billions, perhaps? I was just listening to last week's John Stewart podcast with Rory Stewart, and the point was raised that for all of our failures post 1989 (Middle East, most notably), there were plenty of success stories from the globalized, rules based international order we helped create...

And that turned out to be the fundamental flaw of the gloablists' argument: it was thought that introduction into the global market would liberalize and democratize China, and that her populace would no longer put up with the iron fist. I still think long term, that is probably true, but how...

I don't know...I think a poll of our fanbase would reveal a lot of positivity. I feel a lot better about this roster than last year's, but then again, I always thought Freeman was a bit overrated, and I didn't think Harding's game fit well with modern basketball offenses. I did like Dix a lot...

3? Not sure if this is a law of diminishing returns sort of thing... I feel inadequate enough trying to satisfy 1, no need to jump to the big leagues when I am scuffling at single A.

The 2025 Sweet 16 would beg to differ. I think the NIL era has really elevated the SEC in BB.

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. [Peter laughs and then notices Lawrence's dead serious expression] Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same...

Well, she was ranked slightly higher, and she played more minutes last year for a team that was comparable to Iowa. She scored roughly the same as Guyton on a per minute basis, but she had 50% more assists per minute, and she had fewer than half as many TOs per minute. Wright also had more than...

Last year, Women's season tickets were $210 for adults, and $115 for youth. Men's season tickets were about $350 ($325-$375, depending on location), and there was also a required per-seat contribution (not sure what this was), and there was no discount for youth tickets. So, for my family (2...

The Athletic has Iowa as one of the "winners" in the transfer portal circus: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6299944/2025/04/23/college-basketball-transfer-portal-winners-losers-2/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=2586988&source=dailyemail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

That is where the terrascaping comes in! If you are into Sci Fi, and you haven't yet, check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Interesting from a sci fi perspective, but also from a sociological perspective (the issues that lead to the dooming of the Earth and the seeking of refuge on Mars...

I agree that over a broad time period, these advancements make things better. But over a shorter time scale, there can be massive disruptions. We have to survive the short-term disruptions to realize the long-term advancement.

Sounds like Utopia, except for the fact that labor is our society's only tool for redistributing the wealth that productivity leads to. If we have massive increases in productivity and hence wealth, but no means to distribute it, then what? Probably as important, we need to figure out what our...

By brother in law just completed a degree related to working with this stuff...I believe it was called mechatronics. Great time to get into this field! There is going to be labor force replacement at some point, but we can't fall miles behind due to fear of that. I think we need to rapidly...

Did you see any Chinese "dark factories" when you visited? That is, factories run 100% on robotics, hence no need to lighting/heating/etc., the usual comforts that human workers require. Technicians come in for about an hour a day to check on things, and then the robots just run non-stop for the...