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Is now a good time to talk about the other two Cambridges controversy (MIT Sloan vs MIT Econ), the technology & growth discussion of the 1970s, and the institutional response
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I was thinking about that natural nuclear reactor in Gabon and thinking about iron asteroids and things and was wondering if it would be possible for there to somehow be
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I've been wondering and working for days. Yet i have no real way to start this. This is a post exposing all the harassment and bullshit a few people have
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CFR, IFR, CMR & one more R:Reality check. I was deeply disturbed yesterday to hear a friend of mine claiming that the mortality from C19 is 5%. Well, it is
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tl;dr warningMy entire life has been one string of lucky events after another preventing me from getting into serious trouble. I can remember times wondering how I got away with
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I'm 3 gins in and so I therefore assume that you all want to hear about the time that the president of the united states got so annoyed with the
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The Minneapolis Police (Hennepin County) scanner is offline today, but activity is happening across the river on the St Paul Police scanner. It’s mostly St Paul Police positioning to protect
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Machine learning has enabled scientific breakthroughs in several fields.Biotechnology is one of the most fascinating, as researchers could perform mindblowing tasks with the new tools.Here are my favorite problems that
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How to avoid wasting your life: (a thread) Aim for patient wealth, not get rich quick schemes. Aim for lifelong integrity, not virtue signalling. Aim for persistent happiness, not bite-sized
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As amusing as this is, I feel compelled as a planetary scientist to emphasize that it is just shitposting.We are almost certainly not going to be able to sustain an
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Happening now https://twitter.com/kprather88/status/1378388705535160328 Going to live tweet some of it:#transmissionmatters“Why does acknowledging airborne transmission matter? Because it affects the precautions we put in place.” @kprat
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Last night, a peaceful couple was executed in cold blood on their farm near Newcastle KZN, with no apparent motive other than some form of sick terrorism. Criminologically, this can't
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To build an effective tech talent ecosystem in Africa, all stakeholders have to respect the game and it's players.We will not build anything sustainable if we are not honest.A long
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Nicole Beharie on #SleepyHollow: “Sometimes I think that some people I was working with didn’t like that I was unwell but loved by the audience. ...everyone of color on that
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Predator/Prey dynamics (cause I don't know how else to describe it) BkDk. Bakugou rolled his eyes as the professor droned on to the class from his seat in the back
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Thread on "Masks, Einstein, Interdisciplinary Science, and defeating #COVID."In 1905, which @AlbertEinstein called his "miracle year", he published four important papers. One of them was on "Brownian Motion":ht
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