Moments In Flow

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  • THE PEAR:Why the Shape of the Distribution Determines Whether Class Stays Class

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    The shape of the distribution is the variable. Everything else is a policy. I. FOUR SHAPES, FOUR LOGICS The class structure is usually described by its height. The variable that matters is its shape. The pyramid. A mass base, a thin middle, a narrow top. The gap between base and top usually is unbridgeable within…

  • The Sedentary Default

    How We Engineered Movement Out of Existence and Called It Progress Built to Move Human beings evolved under conditions of food scarcity and high physical activity. We are, in evolutionary terms, built to move. Not to exercise—that’s a modern invention—but to move as a byproduct of survival. To walk to water. To hunt. To gather.…