Best comment yesterday came from Dalton:
Yakov Smirnoff’s relevance died with the Soviet Union. And he knows it, which is why he’s apparently now giving motivational talks entitled “Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships”.
You can even watch in on PBS: https://www.pbssocal.org/programs/yakov-smirnoffs-happily-ever-laughter/
When I want to experience breathlessly credulous regurgitation of bullshit science on public media, my drink of choice is Shankar Vedantam. So, please, advance Meryl Streep just so I don’t have an aneurysm by chasing my Vedantam with a shot of Smirnoff.
No kidding. See for example here and here.
That said, I’ve learned a lot about how science works in the past ten years or so, and I think Smirnoff and Vedantam could learn too. There’s hope for all of us.
In the meantime, it’s Streep on to round 3.
P.S. Paul Davidson sent along the updated bracket:
There are a few more non-basketball brackets out there. Here’s an article highlighting some:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-soc-march-madness-non-basketball-brackets-20190301-story.html
Hey, they don’t have ours! Even though our bracket features the inimitable Zbicyclist and Zchessplayer as commenters.