“Clear myself! I wouldn’t trouble to clear myself. You smug hypocrites-I’d like to see you bring me into court. I’d laugh in your faces. How would you look, sitting there while I told the judge how that woman there killed my husband?”“I am exceedingly disturbed,” said Miss de Vine, “to hear about all this. I knew nothing of it till just now. But indeed I had no choice in the matter. I could not foresee the consequences-and even if I had-”“You wouldn’t have cared. You killed him and you didn’t care. I say you murdered him. What had he done to you? What harm had he done to anybody? He only wanted to live and be happy. You took the bread out of his mouth and flung his children and me out to starve. What did it matter to you? You had no children. You hadn’t a man to care about. I know all about you. You had a man once and you threw him over because it was too much bother to look after him. But couldn’t you leave my man alone? He told a lie about somebody else who was dead and dust “hundreds of years ago. Nobody was the worse for that. Was a dirty bit of paper more important than all our lives and happiness? You broke him and killed him-all for nothing. Do you think that’s a woman’s job?”“Most unhappily,” said Miss de Vine, “it was my job.”“What business had you with a job like that? A woman’s job is to look after a husband and children. I wish I had killed you. I wish I could kill you all. I wish I could burn down this place and all the places like it-where you teach women to take men’s jobs and rob them first and kill them afterwards.”She turned to the Warden.“Don’t you know what you’re doing? I’ve heard you sit round snivelling about unemployment-but it’s you“, it’s women like you who take the work away from the men and break their hearts and lives. No wonder you can’t get men for yourselves and hate the women who can. God keep the men out of your hands, that’s what I say. You’d destroy your own husbands, if you had any, for an old book or bit of writing… I loved my husband and you broke his heart. If he’d been a thief or a murderer, I’d have loved him and stuck to him. He didn’t mean to steal that old bit of paper-he only put it away. It made no difference to anybody. It wouldn’t have helped a single man or woman or child in the world-it wouldn’t have kept a cat alive; but you killed him for it.”“Peter had got up and stood behind Miss de Vine, with his hand over her wrist. She shook her head. Immovable, implacable, thought Harriet; this won’t make her pulse miss a single beat. The rest of the Common Room looked merely stunned.“Oh, no!” said Annie, echoing Harriet’s thoughts. “She feels nothing. None of them feel anything. You brazen devils-you all stand together. You’re only frightened for your skins and your miserable reputations. I scared you all, didn’t I? God! how I laughed to see you all look at one another! You didn’t even trust each other. You can’t agree about anything except hating decent women and their men. I wish I’d torn the throats out of the lot of you. It would have been too good for you, though. I wanted to see you thrown out to starve, like us. I wanted to see you all dragged into the gutter. I wanted to see you-you-sneered at and trampled on and degraded and despised as we were. It would do you good to learn to scrub floors for a living as I’ve done, and use your hands for something, and say ‘madam’ to a lot of scum… But I made you shake in your shoes, anyhow. You couldn’t even find out who was doing it-that’s all your wonderful brains come to. There’s nothing in your books about life and marriage and children, is there? Nothing about desperate people-or love-or hate or anything human. You’re ignorant and stupid and helpless. You’re a lot of fools. You can’t do anything for yourselves. Even you, you silly old hags-you had to get a man to do your work for you.“You brought him here.” She leaned over Harriet with her fierce eyes, as though she would have fallen on her and torn her to pieces. “And you’re the dirtiest hypocrite of the lot. I know who you are. You had a lover once, and he died. You chucked him out because you were too proud to marry him. You were his mistress and you sucked him dry, and you didn’t value him enough to let him make an honest woman of you. He died because you weren’t there to look after him. I suppose you’d say you loved him. You don’t know what love means. It means sticking to your man through thick and thin and putting up with everything. But you take men and use them and throw them away when you’ve finished with them. They come after you like wasps round a jam-jar, and then they fall in and die. What are you going to do with that one there? You send for him when you need him to do your dirty work, and when you’ve finished with him you’ll get rid of him. You don’t want to cook his meals and mend his clothes and bear his children like a decent woman. You’ll use him, like any other tool, to break me. You’d like to see me in prison and my children in a home, because you haven’t the guts to do your proper job in the world. The whole bunch of you together haven’t flesh and blood enough to make you fit for a man. As for you-”Peter had come back to his place and was sitting with his head in his hands. She went over and shook him furiously by the shoulder, and as he looked up, spat in his face. “You! you dirty traitor! You rotten little white-faced rat! It’s men like you that make women like this. You don’t know how to do anything but talk. What do you know about life, with your title and your money and your clothes and motor-cars? You’ve never done a hand’s turn of honest work. You can buy all the women you want. Wives and mothers may rot and die for all you care, while you chatter about duty and honour. Nobody would sacrifice anything for you-why should they? That woman’s making a fool of you and you can’t see it. If she marries you for your money she’ll make a worse fool of you, and you’ll deserve it. You’re fit for nothing but to keep your hands white and father other men’s children… What are you going to do now, all of you? Run away and squeal to the magistrate because I made fools of you all? You daren’t. You’re afraid to come out into the light. You’re afraid for your precious college and your precious selves. I’m not afraid. I did nothing but stand up for my own flesh and blood. Damn you! I can laugh at you all! You daren’t touch me. You’re afraid of me. I had a husband and I loved him-and you were jealous of me and you killed him. Oh, God! You killed him among you, and we never had a happy moment again.”
Monday, April 29, 2024
Don’t you know what you’re doing?
History
March shout-out to Magnolias, among the most ancient of flowering trees: up to c.95m yrs old.
— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) March 10, 2024
They evolved long before bees did & were chiefly pollinated by beetles––thus the tough carpels & petals of their goblet-shaped flowers.
Magnolias bloom in both spring time & deep time. pic.twitter.com/77hA8N6D1g
An Insight
yes, but was the "guy on internet" correct?
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) March 10, 2024
publication and peer review is not proof. it's just the starting line to "let's take a look at this" and "let's see if it replicates."
the best part of the internet is how well it pokes holes in the ivory tower and holds it to… pic.twitter.com/d7lSaGkvzI
I see wonderful things
Incredibly rare 'Firework Jellyfish' filmed 4,000 ft. underwater pic.twitter.com/xGx3aZf30l
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 10, 2024
Using single methodologies to do univariate analysis of multivariate systems requiring expansive specification curve analysis
Specification curve analysis is similar to a multiverse analysis, meaning it’s a way of defining and implementing all plausible and valid analytic approaches to a research question. This time in nutritional epidemiology.Take a moment and think about the methods section of a standard association study. Say blueberries and rates of stroke. The authors of such papers will write that we analyzed the data in this way. In other words: one way.But. But. There are, of course, many choices of ways to analyze the data.Since most observational studies are not pre-registered, you can imagine a scenario where authors actually did a number of analyses and published the one that yielded an association with a p-value of less than 0.05.
The results also provide a sobering view of nutritional epidemiology. Of 1200 different analytic ways (specifications) to approach the NHANES data, only 48 yielded significant findings. The vast majority found no significant association.I would extend this paper beyond nutritional epidemiology. I mean, every time we read an observational study, in any area of bio-medicine, the authors tell us about their analytic method. It’s one method. Not 1200, or a 10 quadrillion.Now consider the issue of publication bias wherein positive papers get published and null papers not so much.Take the example of this paper.There were 40 specifications that yielded a favorable red meat-mortality association and 8 that yielded a negative association. Red meat proponents could publish a positive one; vegetarian proponents could publish a negative one.
Data Talks
IBM Vice Chair Gary Cohn Destroys Biden’s Inflation Narrative, Says Consumers Are ‘Completely Right’
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 10, 2024
“Inflation has a compounding effect meaning as you look at inflation year-over-year, you’re adding up those numbers. You’re not starting at a zero every year. So if we had 6%… pic.twitter.com/MnuCsYpGci
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Walking up and pacing down
“Please do,” said Lord Saint-George. “I mean, Uncle Peter’s getting the wind up horribly. Gone clean off his oats. Of course I know he’s a fidgety old ass and I’ve been doing my best to soothe the troubled beast and all that, but I’m beginning to think he’s got some excuse. For goodness’ sake, Aunt Harriet, do something about it. I can’t afford to have a valuable uncle destroyed under my eyes. He’s getting like the Lord of Burleigh, you know-walking up and pacing down and so on-and the responsibility is very wearing.”
The Lord of BurleighAlfred TennysonIn her ear he whispers gaily,‘If my heart by signs can tell,Maiden, I have watch’d thee daily,And I think thou lov’st me well’.She replies, in accents fainter,‘There is none I love like thee’.He is but a landscape-painter,And a village maiden she.He to lips, that fondly falter,Presses his without reproof:Leads her to the village altar,And they leave her father’s roof.‘I can make no marriage present;Little can I give my wife.Love will make our cottage pleasant,And I love thee more than life.’They by parks and lodges goingSee the lordly castles stand:Summer woods, about them blowing,Made a murmur in the land.From deep thought himself he rouses,Says to her that loves him well,‘Let us see these handsome housesWhere the wealthy nobles dwell’.So she goes by him attended,Hears him lovingly converse,Sees whatever fair and splendidLay betwixt his home and hers;Parks with oak and chestnut shady,Parks and order’d gardens great,Ancient homes of lord and lady,Built for pleasure and for state.All he shows her makes him dearer:Evermore she seems to gazeOn that cottage growing nearer,Where they twain will spend their days.O but she will love him truly!He shall have a cheerful home;She will order all things duly,When beneath his roof they come.Thus her heart rejoices greatly,Till a gateway she discernsWith armorial bearings stately,And beneath the gate she turns;Sees a mansion more majesticThan all those she saw before:Many a gallant gay domesticBows before him at the door.And they speak in gentle murmur,When they answer to his call,While he treads with footstep firmer,Leading on from hall to hall.And, while now she wonders blindly,Nor the meaning can divine,Proudly turns he round and kindly,‘All of this is mine and thine’.Here he lives in state and bounty,Lord of Burleigh, fair and free,Not a lord in all the countyIs so great a lord as he.All at once the colour flushesHer sweet face from brow to chin:As it were with shame she blushes,And her spirit changed within.Then her countenance all overPale again as death did prove:But he clasp’d her like a lover,And he cheer’d her soul with love.So she strove against her weakness,Tho’ at times her spirits sank:Shaped her heart with woman’s meeknessTo all duties of her rank:And a gentle consort made he,And her gentle mind was suchThat she grew a noble lady,And the people loved her much.But a trouble weigh’d upon her,And perplex’d her, night and morn,With the burthen of an honourUnto which she was not born.Faint she grew, and ever fainter,As she murmur’d ‘Oh, that heWere once more that landscape-painterWhich did win my heart from me!’So she droop’d and droop’d before him,Fading slowly from his side:Three fair children first she bore him,Then before her time she died.Weeping, weeping late and early,Walking up and pacing down,Deeply mourn’d the Lord of Burleigh,Burleigh-house by Stamford-town.And he came to look upon her,And he look’d at her and said,‘Bring the dress and put it on her,That she wore when she was wed’.Then her people, softly treading,Bore to earth her body, drestIn the dress that she was wed in,That her spirit might have rest.
History
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, and orator who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC. He was one of the very few “new men” in Rome, meaning the first man in his family to become a senator, and gain the highest office of consul. pic.twitter.com/WagNKknn9m
— Roman History (@romanhistory1) March 10, 2024
An Insight
The message from the permanent bureaucracy is clear; we can take out anyone who is a threat to our power even if he’s a billionaire backed by the majority of voters. @realchrisrufo nails it. pic.twitter.com/fUYstAs4hh
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) March 9, 2024
I see wonderful things
Giant Sturgeon fish in Canada pic.twitter.com/YI8PGiK3ur
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 10, 2024
Offbeat Humor
Nation's Wealthy, Privileged Gather To Lecture Nation On Evils Of Wealth, Privilege https://t.co/0WQcCwxAuQ pic.twitter.com/k6fLMwRkqo
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 10, 2024
Data Talks
The UN asked 10 million people their top priorities
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) March 11, 2024
Top: education, jobs, health, nutrition
Bottom: climate change
Read my 2020 peer-reviewed article: https://t.co/CC0h7JKIKv pic.twitter.com/Q1fzRXAniG
Saturday, April 27, 2024
History
This year we're celebrating *fifty years* since the discovery of the fossil ancestor known as Lucy. Can you believe it? pic.twitter.com/SjVNHFcPx5
— Paige Madison (@FossilHistory) March 11, 2024
Tristitia de bonis alienis
For, to speak in a word, envy is naught else but tristitia de bonis alienis, sorrow for other men’s good, be it present, past, or to come: and gaudium de adversis, and joy at their harms… Tis a common disease, and almost natural to us, as Tacitus holds, to envy another man’s prosperity.
An Insight
To anyone who played sports, did a sales job, or considered the Army during this period, the un-necessary regression we've seen since is insane. https://t.co/K5vUnCnQ4Q
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) March 9, 2024
I see wonderful things
Perfection.......👌
— Mahatma Gandhi (Parody) (@GandhiAOC) March 10, 2024
pic.twitter.com/0zxAwcXaQg
Offbeat Humor
This is gonna be even more quotable than “after all this time?” “always.” pic.twitter.com/e2TD7fLeYz
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) March 11, 2024
Data Talks
"An empirical study by Professor Arthur C. Brooks of Syracuse University, to test the extent to which liberals and conservatives in America donated money, blood, and time to philanthropic endeavors, found that conservatives donated on average both a larger amount of money and a…
— Thomas Sowell, The Genius of... (@AlanWolan) March 11, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
An Insight
International Women's Day where elite women go on TV or write op-eds and ordinary women clock into their nine-to-fives reminds me of when Trump was elected and elite students and profs stayed at home and cried while custodial staff still came in to mop floors and clean gutters.
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) March 8, 2024
If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention.
“I’ve no objection to scientific pot-boilers,” said Miss Edwards. “I mean, a popular book isn’t necessarily unscientific.”“So long,” said Wimsey, “as it doesn’t falsify the facts. But it might be a different kind of thing. To take a concrete instance-somebody wrote a novel called The Search-”“C. P. Snow,” said Miss Burrows. “It’s funny you should mention that. It was the book that the-”“I know,” said Peter. “That’s possibly why it was in my mind.”“I never read the book,” said the Warden.“Oh, I did,” said the Dean. “It’s about a man who starts out to be a scientist and gets on very well till, just as he’s going to be appointed to an important executive post, he finds he’s made a careless error in a scientific paper. He didn’t check his assistant’s results, or something. Somebody finds out, and he doesn’t get the job. So he decides he doesn’t really care about science after all.”“Obviously not,” said Miss Edwards. “He only cared about the post.”“But,” said Miss Chilperic, “if it was only a mistake-”“The point about it,” said Wimsey, “is what an elderly scientist says to him. He tells “him: ‘The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.’ Words to that effect. I may not be quoting quite correctly.”“Well, that’s true, of course. Nothing could possibly excuse deliberate falsification.”“There’s no sense in deliberate falsification, anyhow,” said the Bursar. “What could anybody gain by it?”“It has been done”, said Miss Hillyard, “frequently. To get the better of an argument. Or out of ambition.”“Ambition to be what?” cried Miss Lydgate. “What satisfaction could one possibly get out of a reputation one knew one didn’t deserve? It would be horrible.”Her innocent indignation upset everybody’s gravity.
I see wonderful things
Once every few years, the Namibian desert experiences what is known as the Sandhof lily bloom.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 9, 2024
The lily bulbs sit in the clay beneath the desert floor, waiting patiently for years some centimers of rainfall.pic.twitter.com/S8IkuSiLID
Offbeat Humor
we just lived through an astonishingly unethical psychology experiment that had a very low pass rate.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) March 11, 2024
our societal substrate recoils at this knowledge because too many were too complicit for too long.
they want to forget.
but we need to remember or this will happen again. https://t.co/Of88DpAlPl pic.twitter.com/qEsTFrpKXz
Data Talks
Wharton statistician looks at Hamas’ casualty data and concludes they are likely falsifying to maintain a rolling mean & linear growth — and they don’t know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts
— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) March 10, 2024
Women:Children R2=0.017
Men:Women is *negative* with R2 = 0.835 pic.twitter.com/ZD7JxmXMxI
Ruins Of The Roman Theatre At Taormina, Sicily by William Stanley Haseltine (American, 1835 – 1900)
Thursday, April 25, 2024
If she bid them, they will go barefoot to Jerusalem
“Harriet rang up the Mitre before breakfast.“Peter, could you possibly come round this morning instead of at six o’clock?”“Within five minutes, when and where you will. ‘If she bid them, they will go barefoot to Jerusalem, to the great Cham’s court, to the East Indies, to fetch her a bird to wear in her hat.’ Has anything happened?”“Nothing alarming; a little evidence in situ. But you may finish the bacon and eggs.”“I will be at the Jowett Walk Lodge in half an hour.”
History
Sofonisba Anguissola ~ whom van Dyck described as “the miraculous painter from life” ~ creates her own self-portrait by painting her tutor Bernadino Campi painting a portrait of her (1559) pic.twitter.com/LN27Vq7KEG
— Journal of Art in Society (@artinsociety) March 11, 2024
An Insight
But there is one power that will **always** be greater than govt and that is reality. The role of govt should be to align with reality, to become maximally truth seeking for its own sake, otherwise spurned reality will destroy it. Nemesis always follows Hubris.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 6, 2024
I see wonderful things
Biomedical innovation is miraculous pic.twitter.com/YbBhD7hEXV
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) March 9, 2024
Offbeat Humor
Mel Brooks is a comedic genius pic.twitter.com/EDZoxz1ifz
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 10, 2024
Data Talks
Disruptive pupils reduce the life outcomes of classmates and make teacher’s lives a misery. Why should schools have to teach them? https://t.co/eLgm8qeqJv my latest pic.twitter.com/ZuQOpgBQRx
— Ed West (@edwest) March 6, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Great Tom, tolling his nightly hundred-and-one
April was running out, chilly and fickle, but with the promise of good things to come; and the city wore the withdrawn and secretive beauty that wraps her about in vacation. No clamour of young voices echoed along her ancient stones; the tumult of flying bicycles was stilled in the narrow strait of the Turf; in Radcliffe Square the Camera slept like a cat in the sunshine, disturbed only by the occasional visit of a slow-footed don; even in the High, the roar of car and charabanc seemed diminished and brought low, for the holiday season was not yet; punts and canoes, new-fettled for the summer term, began to put forth upon the Cherwell like the varnished buds upon the horse-chestnut tree, but as yet there was no press of traffic upon the shining reaches; the mellow bells, soaring and singing in tower and steeple, told of time’s flight through an eternity of peace; and Great Tom, tolling his nightly hundred-and-one, called home only the rooks from off Christ Church Meadow.
Great Tom is still sounded 101 times every night, which signifies the 100 original scholars of the college plus one (added in 1663). It is rung at 21:05 current UK time, which corresponds to 21:00 in what used to be "Oxford time" (local mean time for Oxford, noon in Oxford always occurring five minutes later than noon in Greenwich), and was at one time the signal for all the Oxford colleges to lock their gates. The bell is only rung by swinging on very special occasions.
History
Giant Persian Griffin (516-465 BC), Persepolis, Iran.
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) March 10, 2024
The word "Griffin" comes from Old French word "griffon," which was used to refer to both the legendary animal and birds of prey in general. Late Latin word "Gryphus," which was derived from an incorrect spelling of ancient… pic.twitter.com/VKfakviPZ1
An Insight
If you didn't have an AOL screen name, you haven't been through a full real estate market cycle, and don't know what real fear is.
— StripMallGuy (@realEstateTrent) March 6, 2024
Best,
DMBAntsMarching
I see wonderful things
Dust from the Sahara covered this Spanish ski resort , a visual of North Africa’s importance to the rest of the world
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) March 8, 2024
The most emptiest and parched area of the world supplies vital nutrients through this dust for rainforests and ocean life 1/
pic.twitter.com/HYD2ZAoUOk
Offbeat Humor
A short primer on the Modern Left. https://t.co/dGCxWZOrzv
— Bex (@BexStreams) March 9, 2024
Data Talks
In the US, 5% of women are blonde. Among female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 48% are blonde
— Noor Siddiqui (@noor_siddiqui_) February 29, 2024
Female senators: 35% blonde
Blonde privilege but not height privilege for women apparently. Just 2.2% of male F500 CEOs are blonde https://t.co/FOrmiAyl2v
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
But one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
“Harriet said nothing, but continued to make out the cheques.“One thing, there doesn’t seem to be much at Blackwell’s. A mere trifle of six pounds twelve.”“One halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack.”
PRINCE HENRYThis oily rascal is known as well as Paul’s. Go call him forth.PETOFalstaff!— [pulls back the arras] Fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting like a horse.PRINCE HENRYHark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.PETO searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papersWhat hast thou found?PETONothing but papers, my lord.PRINCE HENRYLet’s see what they be. Read them.PETO(reads) Item, a capon, … 2s. 2d.Item, sauce, … 4d.Item, sack, two gallons, … 5s. 8d.Item, anchovies and sack after supper, , , , 2s. 6d.Item, bread, ob. [halfpenny]PRINCE HENRYO monstrous! But one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!
History
Etruscans were an Italian Civilization (8th-3rd Centuries BC), were known for their impressive artistry and craftsmanship, particularly in jewelry-making. Etruscan jewelry was not only a symbol of wealth and status but also had spiritual and cultural significance.
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) March 9, 2024
One of most… pic.twitter.com/tpv9ZA5S7c
An Insight
And thousand year old trees are being exposed from below the ice. Why were these trees growing here, a thousand years ago at pre-industrial levels of CO2? https://t.co/ApWiVbsjLw pic.twitter.com/gXdRWjKNZg
— Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) March 6, 2024
I see wonderful things
The awesome power and stunning beauty of a humpback whale breaching seen up close.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) March 8, 2024
📽: Beau Pilgrim pic.twitter.com/Y1I1VMrG3d
Offbeat Humor
As of March 7, Sweden has become a member of NATO, bringing with them sophisticated logistical capabilities. To save 90% on fuel and storage costs, from now on, all NATO tanks, trucks, howitzers, and APCs will be transported in flat boxes and assembled on site when needed. pic.twitter.com/HFPvWuH4fF
— Carl (@HistoryBoomer) March 7, 2024
Data Talks
419 Swedish economists were asked which economics concepts are most important to understand and manage economics "for an individual" and "for a citizen", respectively.
— Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert) March 4, 2024
Opportunity cost was the most popular answer to both questions.https://t.co/wGQNdmzyrI pic.twitter.com/OoPK2xEMrX
Monday, April 22, 2024
Be patient and let time pasee
“You’re dead right,” said Harriet, after a pause. “If one’s genuinely interested one knows how to be patient, and let time pass, as Queen Elizabeth said. Perhaps that’s the meaning of the phrase about genius being eternal patience, which I always thought rather absurd. If you truly want a thing, you don’t snatch; if you snatch, you don’t really want it. Do you suppose that, if you find yourself taking pains about a thing, it’s a proof of its importance to you?”
“You do not forget, mon tres cher, that the greatest cause of delay [in arranging a match] is due to this [agitation by English zealots against a Catholic marriage], that our people ought to congratulate and to applaud. To bring this about I have let time pass, which generally helps more than reasoning.”
History
Souvenir pens are nothing new. This Roman stylus was excavated in London in 2019. It is engraved with an inscription showing it was bought as a souvenir gift for a loved one: 'I have come from the city. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me...' pic.twitter.com/V2xQBawQhN
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) January 7, 2023
An Insight
Americans are moving away from the office. Employees hired in 2023 now live 35 miles from office, up from 10 miles in 2019.
— Nick Bloom (@I_Am_NickBloom) March 5, 2024
So firms now are hiring in a much bigger area.
Which is why RTOs are now so hard - folks don't live near the office anymore.
https://t.co/RgwnKklk4p pic.twitter.com/FV8zZkEIWn
I see wonderful things
What is the name of this animal? pic.twitter.com/wDuaM4mhyL
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 9, 2024
Offbeat Humor
There were eight Davids in my high school class of 94 people. I think about that every time I see tweets like this. https://t.co/lxhVV5Z14i
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) March 6, 2024
Data Talks
Doing Educational Equity Right: The Homework Gap https://t.co/v21AwzgUTd
— RealClearEducation (@RealClearEd) March 4, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Amiable absurdity
Harriet was opening her mouth to say No, when she looked at Mr. Pomfret, and her heart softened. He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed-a kind of amiable absurdity.
History
A Wedjat Eye Amulet (1077-664 BC), from Tanis (archaeological site in northeastern Nile Delta), Egypt.
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) March 9, 2024
One of the most popular amulets in ancient Egypt, the wedjat eye represents the healed eye of the god Horus. It depicts a combination of a human and a falcon eye, since Horus… pic.twitter.com/13KwRznLFu
An Insight
This headline reads: “without policies that discriminate against whites and Asians and judge applicant solely based on merit, black women can’t succeed”
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) March 4, 2024
The soft racism of low expectations on display https://t.co/x9tBmDEuNL
I see wonderful things
Love this 😂 pic.twitter.com/CSnHJl0LKT
— कान्हा चौधरी 😎(पांवणा जी)💞 (@kanhachoudhary0) March 7, 2024
Offbeat Humor
“We would like you to prosecute and imprison violent criminals instead of letting them run amok”
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) March 7, 2024
*long pause*
“Best we can do is TSA the subway” https://t.co/jdAZUxwGIZ
Data Talks
The Sahara is really something. A half-million square miles larger than the lower 48 of the US, with hardly anyone living in it. pic.twitter.com/jRsrv2uYrH
— i/o (@eyeslasho) March 4, 2024
Saturday, April 20, 2024
All women are sensitive to male criticism. Men are not sensitive to female criticism. They despise the critics.
“Do you know any man who sincerely admires a woman for her brains?”“Well,” said Harriet, “certainly not many.”“You may think you know one,” said Miss Hillyard with a bitter emphasis. “Most of us think at some time or other that we know one. But the man usually has some other little axe to grind.”“Very likely,” said Harriet. “You don’t seem to have a very high opinion of men-of the male character, I mean, as such.”“No,” said Miss Hillyard, “not very high. But they have an admirable talent for imposing their point of view on society in general. All women are sensitive to male criticism. Men are not sensitive to female criticism. They despise the critics.”
History
The Newport Arch - the remains of the north gateway to Roman Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Built in around 200 AD, the arch is the only Roman gateway in the UK still used by traffic. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Lincoln 📸 My own. pic.twitter.com/pGc4IhUo1q
— Kevin Wilbraham (@KPW1453) March 9, 2024
An Insight
“Meanwhile, utilities keep installing “renewables” that drive up rates. Because, unlike EV’s, you can’t opt out. Until you vote.”
— Douglas Ritz (@douglasritz) March 4, 2024
People never learn. pic.twitter.com/P0FTVb4v2Q
You are what you read?
2 (11%) of the jurors consume no news.2 (11%) get their news from only a single source.6 (33%) get their news from at least two sources.8 (45%) get their news from at least three sources or more.
Conservative press/platforms (5): The Daily Mail, Fox News, The New York Post, Truth Social, The Wall Street JournalLiberal/Progressive (11): BBC, CNBC, CNN, Facebook, Google, MSNBC, The New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, The Washington Post, WNYCNeutral (3): NY1, TikTok, X
100% Con - 0% of the jury100% Lib - 39%Lean Con - 6%Lean Lib - 17%Heterodox - 28%Neutral - 0%None - 11%
Sources of news: https://www.4media-group.com/blog/intelligence/more-than-half-of-u-s-consumers-watch-tv-news-and-read-news-online/Most popular news platforms: https://www.statista.com/statistics/717651/most-popular-news-platforms/Where Americans get their news: https://www.prdaily.com/where-americans-get-their-news-new-data-from-pew-research/Pew Social Media and News Fact Sheet: https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/
I see wonderful things
Cruise ship being built
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 6, 2024
[📹 cranes work]pic.twitter.com/WiglB319ys
Offbeat Humor
I don't know if I want to live in a world where our heroic civic-minded billionaire professional sports team owners are expected to pay for their own arenas https://t.co/T95BcnW0qd
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 7, 2024
Data Talks
New Study on Kids' Mental Health Treatment/Need, by Family Structure:
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) March 4, 2024
✔️ 14% Married Bio
✔️ 24% Single Mother
✔️ 27% Married Stepfamily
✔️ 30% Unmarried cohabitating
✔️ 44% Foster
Source: Dr. Nicholas Zill https://t.co/b2p937XiLA @FamStudies pic.twitter.com/ufLddN6NX1
Friday, April 19, 2024
A lady with a turn for invective remarkable even in an age when few mouths suffered from mealiness
Passing through the empty Hall, later in the day, she stopped to stare at the portrait of that Mary Countess of Shrewsbury, in whose honor the college had been founded. The painting was a well-executed modern copy of the one in St. John’s College Cambridge, and the queer, strong-featured face, with its ill-tempered mouth and sidelong, secretive glance, had always exercised a curious fascination over her-even in her student days, a period when the portraits of dead and gone celebrities exposed in public places incur more sarcastic comment than reverential consideration. She did not know, and indeed had never troubled to inquire, how Shrewsbury College had come to adopt so ominous a patroness. Bess of Hardwick’s daughter had been a great intellectual, indeed, but something of a holy terror; uncontrollable by her men folk, undaunted by the Tower, contemptuously silent before the Privy Council, an obstinate recusant, a staunch friend and implacable enemy and a lady with a turn for invective remarkable even in an age when few mouths suffered from mealiness. She seemed, in fact, to be the epitome of every alarming quality which a learned woman is popularly credited with developing. Her husband, the “great and glorious Earl of Shrewsbury,” had purchased domestic peace at a price; for, said Bacon, there was “a greater than he, which is my Lady of Shrewsbury.”
History
just found out that an 11th century man named "horny rick" popularised shoes that were so gay, they made them illegal pic.twitter.com/d7aaDWERoF
— weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !! (@WeirdMedieval) March 8, 2024
I see wonderful things
This bird you're seeing is the Eurasian wryneck, a woodpecker known for its ability to mimic a forest snake as a defence strategy
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) March 6, 2024
📹Dr Stanley Tang
pic.twitter.com/YM5mwr2yEm
Offbeat Humor
https://t.co/YyKMe2r6lw pic.twitter.com/kWQ3iazdJs
— Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 (@razibkhan) March 6, 2024
Data Talks
1/ New peer-reviewed:
— Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) March 4, 2024
“The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden: Don’t lock down”
“Finland & Norway, w/ lowest avg lockdown rate show lowest excess mortality—displaying a negative excess mortality rate. Sweden.. has one of lowest cumulative excess mortality rates”https://t.co/Kyx3MXMuJD
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The easy answer? Cultivate values and behaviors.
Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes. Drawing on a database covering the quasi-universe of protests held in the United States, we identify 14 social movements that took place from 2017 to 2022, covering topics related to environmental protection, gender equality, gun control, immigration, national and international politics, and racial issues. We use Twitter data, Google search volumes, and high-frequency surveys to track the evolution of online interest, policy views, and vote intentions before and after the outset of each movement. Combining national-level event studies with difference-in-differences designs exploiting variation in local protest intensity, we find that protests generate substantial internet activity but have limited effects on political attitudes. Except for the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, which shifted views on racial discrimination and increased votes for the Democrats, we estimate precise null effects of protests on public opinion and electoral behavior.
Social movements don't change anything.Social policies don't change anything.
Character is destiny.
Language of a place and time
Sunday lunch in Hall was a casual affair.[snip]Harriet, having seized a plate of cold ham for herself, looked round for a lunch partner, and was thankful to see Phoebe Tucker just come in and being helped by the attendant scout to a portion of cold roast beef.[snip]From there they commanded the whole room, including the High Table itself and the row of serving-hatches.