El mitote
Longmire is back, baby. It’s about ding dang time. The final (no!) season of the Santa Fe area-filmed Western went live for your streaming pleasure Friday on Netflix.
El Mitotero is still catching up on Season 5, so if you write to his inbox with spoilers, he promises to hound you to the ends of the Earth like that weird stalker dude who harassed Vic back in Season 2. What was up with that guy? Ed? Think it was Ed. Not cool, Ed. Anyway it’s Rainier-ina-can o’clock. Drink up, Longmire fans, for until they announce a movie deal, this is the last of Walt, Standing Bear, Vic, Cady and company. (And company is Ferg.)
Santa Fe Institute researchers took part in a cool new study El Mitotero would like to alert you to: Published this week in the journal Nature, the piece, titled “Greater Post-Neolithic Wealth Disparities in Eurasia than in North and Mesoamerica,” is a fascinating examination of how wealth disparities affected ancient societies. Apparently, the economy is busted and unequal? And it has always been that way? Like way, way before Reaganomics.
The study argues “the generally higher wealth disparities identified in post-Neolithic Eurasia are attributable initially to the greater availability of large domesticable mammals, since they allow for more profitable agricultural extensification, and also eventually to the development of a mounted warrior elite able to expand polities to sizes not possible in North and Mesoamerica prior to the arrival of Europeans.” At least in those days, the elites were mounted warriors! Now we have Steven Mnuchin. Where were we? Right: Check out the study, written by 18 authors, among them
Timothy A. Kohler, Amy Bogaard and Samuel Bowles, all of whom are connected to Santa Fe Institute.
Santa Fe wins! Go Fuego! No, that’s not right. What did we win? We won a thing. Oh, yes,
Travel + Leisure’s “Readers’ Choice Destination of the Year.” Santa Fe took 65 percent of the vote. And we won the electoral college, too. Astounding. Second place was Slovenia, with 14 percent. Slovenia, honestly, we feel bad about this. We shouldn’t have run up the score like that. You can win next year.