Daily Bafflements

• How adorable: the Guardian reports that two U.S. senators, Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), will live together on a tropical island for six days, and all their adventures “as they spear fish and build shelter together” will be filmed for a Discovery Channel show called Rival Survival.

• The Center for Public Integrity has uncovered emails detailing all the strings that Koch money can come with when Koch money goes to a school, including control over the hiring and retention of faculty, and a new emphasis on libertarian philosophy and deregulatory policy in the school’s curriculum. “As we all know, there are no free lunches,” wrote an economics department chair at Florida State University to his colleagues about such an offer from the Charles Koch Foundation. “Everything comes with costs.”

• Two important reminders to both writers and readers: “Millennials” and other generational categorizations are meaningless inventions, and using the vague shorthand term “Brooklyn” when you actually mean something like “certain neighborhoods in north and west Brooklyn that have already been gentrified by young, white, wealthy hipsters” is both factually incorrect and pretty offensive.

• Today in New York Fashion Week: You simply must look at this incredible hat.