It's odd how Hollywood goes to extreme lengths to make people's faces visible under/despite helmets. I wonder if this is related to the fact that we've evolved for some reason to have visible sclera?

1. I saw some Planet of the Apes remake tiktok recently, but the huge sclera pretty much squicked me on their costuming.

(then again, I really appreciated the sclera on Khryusha the pig; maybe because he's not supposed to be a realistic character?)

2. Some coats of arms have battle helmets; some have barred-face helmets. I always figured the latter were designed to make it easier to drink at the beer tent, but maybe even they agreed with Hollywood on the visibility issue?

the Roman (allies') sol'n: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesa_helmet

3. Disney used to have an exercise for animators: make a sack of flour emote. Maybe actors who intend to play hard characters ought to have to do the screen test with a bag over their head?

Are you making an economic argument [pace HRV] that wit is better than distinction for avoiding underproduction of science, if it were to be monetarily compensated solely by its [near-zero] marginal unit returns?

> Je défie qu’on me montre une république ancienne ou moderne dans laquelle il n’y ait pas eu de distinctions. On appelle cela des hochets ! Eh bien ! c’est avec des hochets que l’on mène les hommes. —NB, 18 Floréal X

("Can anyone show me a republic, ancient or modern, without any achievements? They call them swag! OK — swag is how men are led.")

Wit may be the epitaph of an emotion, but it may also be the shem capable of animating a golem...

If PE had been from Krypton, would death have been the moment one left the essential truths of mathsing for the accidental truths of sciencing?