[S1E6] Have A Nice Day!
Every action seems to have a consequence in Spinning Out. The lead character Kat (Kaya Scodelario) does not lead a simple life, with her friends and family depending on her despite her own mental fragilities.
[S1E6] Have a Nice Day!
Did you forget about Sanditon in all this big city action? Me too! Bad news: Lady D is not looking so hot. She's abed, and surrounded by all of her various would-be heirs. Folgers Sister and Clara both appear to be kind of worried/upset, but Folgers Brother is, as always, a creep AND a bad actor. He's very obviously faking his distress. Lady D calls them out for being vultures, tells them she won't give them the satisfaction of dying, and drinks some seawater, like the #BossLady she is. Folgers Brother, ever the opportunist, suggests that they might want to call for a priest, just for peace of mind, or even, dare he say it, her lawyer? I have to give it to him, he's not pulling his punches. Guess what though: Lady D hates religion as much as she hates modern medicine, and her lawyer already has her will on lock.
But we have more pressing issues than Charlotte's complicated feelings for Sidney Parker. For instance, the impending/ongoing kidnapping of Georgiana! Fancy Female Go-Between/Madame proves useful, and tells them that Georgiana and Mr. Howard the Hutt just left, but if they hurry, they might be able to catch them before they get into Outlander territory. On the way out, Charlotte can't resist getting a dig in at Sidney.
Not to be an enabler, but Charlotte could probably also use a drink. She feels really bad for leaving Georgiana at home and doesn't think she's rich enough to fit in. Sidney, who seems to have caught the sharing bug, tells her that he often feels like he doesn't belong even though he has money. Bonding!
You have GOT to love a ball scene. When else, in these modern times, are we given permission to lose our minds over a basic hand grasp? Anyway, this particular ball scene is EXCELLENT: Charlotte and Sidney have great chemistry and the music is as on point as it has been the whole season. Just as they finish dancing, Sidney makes eye contact with a hottie across the room. I wonder who it could be? Surely not his ex!
Tom cuts in to dance with Charlotte, which is adorable. I weirdly really like their friendship. Tom tells her he's happy to see she's feeling better, which is a nice sentiment that he immediately goes ahead and ruins.
Better yet, just propose on the plane and leave out the fake crash part. That couple is going to have one heck of a story to tell their kids someday. But hey, how many men can say their proposal literally made their girlfriend's heart stop?
Doesn't Athena have a partner? It doesn't seem smart to be responding to calls solo, even if they appear to be mundane noise complaints. She also should have been more careful about leaving her back exposed once she discovered the blood in Melora's shower. She walked right into her trap.
I suppose choking on the bread and winding up in the hospital is one way to ensure you don't have sex on the first date. Although, Abby did stay with Buck at the hospital, and there's a bed, so I wouldn't necessarily rule it out just yet.
We definitely have to give props to Abby for cutting a hole in Buck's throat as well as to Athena for getting that kidney to the hospital in record time despite a huge pileup. She sure knows how to drive like a maniac when necessary. Pregnant women all over the city should put her on speed dial.
Cheating is one thing -- some marriages can come back from that -- but he's gay, and she's just not going to be happy if she stays with him. She needs to separate from him so that she can begin to move on and have a shot at happiness with someone else someday.
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HR: So he pushed that for a while and, finally, I said, "Phil, I have zero interest in your school business. Uh, what this world needs is more engineering, how to make things, we have to produce. And Phil, what would you do with $100 million?" And he nearly fell off the chair, but that's, that's how we got to that level and was the, was the beginning.
Rowan gave his money to Glassboro State College, a public university in a sleepy little town in South Jersey that no one had ever heard of. The college was close to broke. At the time, they had an endowment of $787,000. But the people who followed Hank Rowan, who were inspired by the size of his donation, almost all of them gave money to wealthy prestigious schools. Let me just read to you the names of some of the educational institutions that have received the largest donations in American history. Ready? In 2013, the billionaire cofounder of Nike, Phil Knight, pledged half a billion to the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. Okay, not the most prestigious institution in America, but wait. Then, come 3, $400 million donations. The first is the billionaire John Kluge's gift to Columbia University in 2007. The second is the hedge fund manager John Paulson's gift to Harvard University in 2015. The third is Phil Knight's gift to Stanford University in 2016. And after that, in order, here are the universities that get the biggest donations: Johns Hopkins, Harvard again, University of Chicago, Princeton, Tufts, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Yale, Penn, Claremont McKenna, Columbia again, Baylor, USC, Columbia a third time, Michigan, University of California, Wisconsin. I could go on if you want through all 87, but basically, we're talking about the same wealthy, elite schools getting the biggest donations again and again. Hank Rowan did something unprecedented and nobody followed him.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that I'm obsessed with this issue. After John Paulson gave his $400 million to Harvard in 2015, I had a kind of Twitter meltdown sending tweet after tweet including, "It came down to helping the poor or giving the world's richest university $400 million it doesn't need. Wise choice, John." And then, "If billionaires don't step up, Harvard will soon be down to its last $30 billion." Then, when Phil Knight gave $400 million to Stanford, I got called up for comment by the New York Times. I said that Stanford was part of a crazy arms race and ought to cut its endowment in half and give the balance to schools that actually need the money. The next day, I got an email from the president of Stanford, John Hennessy. He wanted to get together and convince me I was wrong. So I talked to him, and we'll get to that conversation in a minute. For now, I will only say that I was completely baffled by my talk with Hennessey. It was as if he and I were speaking different languages. I understand the people who give money to those who need money. The people who give money to those who already have all the money they need, I don't understand that. What are they thinking?
DS: That's right and because of the nature of soccer, the, that, these 8 beautiful passes may have only increased your likelihood of victory by a small percent but then it goes right back to zero because somebody turns the ball over.
DS: Yeah, basketball is probably the opposite and the continuum fromÔøΩ If you think about soccer as maybe the weakest link sport; basketball is probably the most superstar driven team sport that we have.
MG: Even the greatest basketball teams often have one and sometimes even two players who are barely better than mediocre. What matters in basketball is not how good your fifth player is, it's how good your superstar is. It's a strong link game. Think about Lionel Messi, maybe the greatest soccer player of his generation, versus Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player his generation.
Here's another example. One of the great puzzles of the industrial revolution is why it began in England. Why not France or Germany? One theory is that Britain was lucky enough to have more geniuses than anyone else, like James Watt who invents the steam engine. But there's an economist named Joel Mokyr who makes a really compelling argument that England's advantage is that it had way more craftsman and skilled engineers and experienced and mechanically minded backyard tinkerers than anyone else. Those were the people who are able to take those inventions and perfect them and make them useful. Mokyr is saying that the industrial revolution was a weak link phenomenon, not a strong link phenomenon. And because Britain had more craftsman than France or Germany, that gave Britain a huge advantage.
Student: So we got some, like, aircraft grade aluminum, we have a two-axis water jet cutter that can cut out profiles and we designed a part that's bolted together. That way, um, it's, it's nice and strong, and they're graded bolt, but if it does break, you can replace individual pieces without having to make a whole new assembly.
JH: How much is enough? Um, I think it, we, umÔøΩ If our ambitions don't grow, then I think you do reach a point where you have enough money and I would hope that, um, our ambitions for what we want to do as an institution, both in our teaching and our research, uh, grow.
MG: In other words, there really isn't such a thing at Stanford as enough money. The school's ambitions are always growing, so its endowment should too. Just because you already have more resources than almost anyone else doesn't mean you should stop collecting even more resources. Hennessy is a hard core strong linker.
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