When I’m in western MI people ask which St. Louis I’m from (there’s one in central MI).

Per AP style you have to write “Iowa City, Iowa”?

We also saw a significant rise in enrollment at SIUE, so it’s clearly a statewide issue and not just a Chicago effect. Great news, but I worry just a bit this is partly a sign of the weakening entry level job market.

Sounds like the Zach Bryan song...
🎵And, I've been roofing houses atop of homes I can't afford
But I'm saving all my pennies and I'm praying to the lord
One day we'll make it through all this barely gettin' by🎵
youtu.be/CQGDBxuKeqI?...

ISO type that identifies with me

Tired: subsidize farmers bc of a trade war

Wired: subsidize farmers bc they’re all that stands between us and thousands of hungry bears

Apparently those are the matagi, or traditional hunters

“Keiji Minatoya, the owner of a confectionery store in Akita, was attacked by a bear in his garage two years ago. The bear tore off a piece of his earlobe; when he looked in the mirror, he could see part of his skull. The bear attacked four other people in his neighborhood that day.”

I like Oliver Burkeman’s books that are kind of anti-productivity self-help.

Hi Hal, may I recommend a good book on the topic?
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Hard to pick just one, but for a book that’s a great ride *and* squeezes in some scholarship, try Deborah Cohen’s _Last Call at the Hotel Imperial_.

Glad to see some attention to Brazil’s corn ethanol boom, which has been happening under the radar of most US readers. Look forward to following this series.

Maybe Rebecca Woods’s _The Herds Shot Round the World_?

That's what I've been thinking about: are we on the verge of a wave of students looking to grad school as a refuge just as a lot of programs are cutting to the bone?

“go beyond dialogue” 🤷🏻‍♂️

Really interesting dialogue, Caleb. Thanks for sharing. Your contributions about contingency and paths not taken in energy history were spot on. There's still work to do in connecting energy *history* with energy humanities, I think, but I'm glad people are thinking along these lines.