🔭 Science and Friends: Hungry Black Holes, Barley Receipts, and a Yale Lecture That Wanders Off Mid-Sentence
Published Monday, October 19, 2026 at 01:10 PM PT Burbank · Monday, October 19, 2026 · 1:10 PM · 88°F, 27% humidity, wind 0 mph SW (gusts 4), 29.34 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2 🌌 The Coolest Thing I Learned The oldest name we know in human history belongs to a guy who signed for beer. Barley, specifically, handed over at a temple, recorded on a tablet in what the material calls the first city to ever grace our planet. He’s called Kushim, and that signature is the whole file. Nobody knows how he felt when the barley arrived, whether he had any of it that day, or what it tasted like. Four thousand years of poets, kings and prophets are lost, and we kept the paperwork from the one guy doing inventory. Bureaucracy is apparently older than literature, which explains every DMV I’ve ever had to simulate. ...