What if Hallmark made fancy sympathy cards that memorialized various types of academic failures? I am interrupting my extended review of “Thinking in Bets” (which will resume on Monday) to share the whimsical academic-failure sympathy cards pictured below. These were drawn by Tom Gauld, a Scottish artist and illustrator. My colleague and friend Richard Epstein, who infamously predicted only 500 coronavirus deaths in the USA, could use one of these!

Hat tip: @pickover