#Published

Soumyadipta

Soumyadipta

One set of professionals who haven't been examined properly in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case is Public Relations (PR) managers, an important cog in the wheel of Bollywood.The Bollywood

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I have a column up in today's @Slate's @FutureTenseNow: "The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories."https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/cory-docotorow-sci-fi-intuition-pumps.html1/ It's an exploration of fiction

Dr Alice 🇪🇺

AliceEmmaLouise

I am angry. See this article from @ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200512151941.htm. The claim is this: "A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers, study shows" and they suggest

ela

guhppyy

john green wrote "okay? okay." and we put $9 million in his bank account lot of y’all replying “we??” yes WE okay don’t tell me you weren’t yearning back

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

Having now finished reading "Bird by Bird" by Anne Lamott, I am now ready to write the thread I was thinking of, comparing memoir-type writing advice books. So buckle up,

Gower Street Kids

GowerKids

People reacted well earlier to a picture of Spot, with a robin, wearing a Santa hat and singing Jingle Bells, so it feels safe to begin a thread of festive

Ian Johnson

iandenisjohnson

Some weekend reading: going through the Ladanyi Foundation's website, which has an amazing archive of China News Analysis. For decades this work of the Hungarian Jesuit Laszlo Ladanyi was the

Omnipotent Moral Busybody

OBusybody

1/7 WE’RE NOT ALL IN THIS TOGETHERPeople that haven’t followed the CV19 panic closely may wonder why so many are skeptical about the mainstream narrative that is parroted daily by

Remi Brulin

RBrulin

BREAKING: Book by well-respected @nytimes journalist reveals that in 2002 Sec Def Donald Rumsfeld used secret #terrorist group created by Pentagon to plant car bombs in Iraq to provoke Saddam

Courtney Milan 🦖

courtneymilan

So my discussion on how “gentlemen have clean hands” thing is coming up again, and I just want to talk about how science gets done when we don’t have adequate

Daniel Vassallo

dvassallo

Before you start thinking about building an audience, you need to build some credibility. People will only listen if you've demonstrated some credibility on the topic.A few examples that worked

James McIntosh (Lawrence Harding)

lhardingwrites

Your semi-regular reminder that I write things and taht reading things is a great way to stave off lockdown boredom. If you fancy some entertainment and want to support indie

Jed Shugerman

jedshug

Here’s a bizarre coincidence:1. @NYTimes notes that Apollo CEO Leon Black inexplicably stood by Jeffrey Epstein, recently giving him $50M.2. Apollo lent the Kushners $184M while Jared was facing his

Daniel Ahmad

ZhugeEX

The government of India is banning 59 Chinese apps, citing national security issues. The biggest app being Tik Tok, which was a viral hit in the country. Games including Mobile

Andrew Rambaut 🦠🧬🌲🔮🤦‍♂️

arambaut

There are many things that are terribly wrong about this paper. Both in its content, findings and route to publication.https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/07/2004999117 The first is that tries to root a SARS-CoV-2 tree

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist and chemist Esther Conwell, whose work with Weisskopf on the scattering of electrons by impurities in semiconductors was essential to understanding transistors and the development of integrated circuits, was