Rebecca Lowe
@RMLLowe
political and economic philosophy, and all the other cool stuff 🚀 senior research fellow at mercatus
excited to launch my new philosophy podcast, Working Definition! episodes available via 'the ends don't justify the means' (link in next tweet), as well as Apple, Spotify, YouTube..
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Splashdown! Columbia is in the water, waiting for the flotation bags to inflate and the recovery crew to move in. #Apollo11
Arlington ranks as America's fittest 'city' for eighth year in a row arlnow.com/2025/07/23/arl…
"at one point, it was possible to travel from Wisconsin to New York State exclusively by interurban"
New from me @WorksInProgMag about a great idea to improve transit all around the world (but especially in Britain) – the tram-train. By running trams onto suburban railway lines, cities can get big transit networks at comparatively little cost. worksinprogress.news/p/tram-trains
John F. Kennedy campaigning Door-to-Door in West Virginia (1960)
Author Ernest Hemingway leaves the Pamplona bullfighting festival in a bad mood, and he begins working on a new book based on his experiences there this year.
62 years since Don Draper signed with Sterling Cooper
NEWS: The leasehold sale of the Regency Café in Pimlico, Westminster has just been announced, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1946, the Regency has developed a cult following as one of the dwindling number of greasy spoon caffs in London. Over past three decades it has…
We could be close to the high temperature of the year on Friday. The 99 logged on June 24 is the average annual peak value for the city. Interactive graph and forecast update at cwg.live.
The mean center of population in the United States from 1790 to 2020
you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt
Wonder how this compares with Starmer's reading list or if he has one x.com/jmichael424/st…
wow.. reading this insanely over-thought piece is almost enough to make you conclude that astonishingly both men and women generally desire monogomous romantic relationships in which mutual sexual desire is a necessary but insufficient condition!
The Trouble With Wanting Men - NYT Magazine "Women are so fed up with dating men that the phenomenon even has a name: heterofatalism. So what do we do with our desire?" nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…
"Wanting to ban LLMs because students use them to cheat is like wanting to outlaw cars because criminals use them as getaway vehicles." very nice piece by @victorckumar (which includes a nice reference to a piece by me!) openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/dont-outsour…
bertrand russell and @ReliveApollo11 star in my weekly '5 top things i've been reading' [link in next tweet]