Paul Revere dies
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) May 10, 2024
On this day in history, May 10, 1818, Paul Revere dies. Renowned for his famous midnight ride, Paul Revere's life was much more than a single patriotic event. Revere was the son of a French immigrant father and native Boston mother. Revere's father, Apollos,…
7 Stoic Maxims — For Self-mastery pic.twitter.com/GySHoNYSQI
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) May 9, 2024
The tiny egg and the life it produced
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 10, 2024
📹 Adrian Kozakiewicz
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I happened to see this on FB today before it went viral here, and the artist is @hanifwondir. Here’s a video of the making of this gorgeous act of rebellion: https://t.co/HCOHtfQG5B https://t.co/rfWUEKImwn
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 10, 2024
Non-Californians don't appreciate the Central Valley's abundance enough:
— Alex Laplaza (@a_laplaza) May 9, 2024
1% of US farmland
8% of US ag output by value
25% of overall US food production
40% of US fruits, nuts, and table food production
250 different crops worth $17B per year
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Thread w/excerpts of "Disorderly Liberty".
— Yevarժiaղ (@haravayin_hogh) May 9, 2024
Anyone claiming "real Libertarianism🐍has never been tried" has never heard of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
For over a century, its government, by design, atrophied to almost nothing, until it was extinguished by outsiders.🧵 pic.twitter.com/ADYYzrO3Zf
"the dirty secret of sixties radicalism was that many of its most aggressive proponents were those who felt the deepest elitist yearnings...avarice was transmuted into leftist rage...To them, society was unjust if it would not give them what they wanted" https://t.co/TRISu6lhV1 pic.twitter.com/Zm5sViHcfo
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) May 9, 2024
The incredible softness and hydrophobic qualities of eiderdown.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 10, 2024
Eiderdown is the only down in the world that the wild eider ducks leave behind after a natural molting process.pic.twitter.com/L1X2pL6M6G
Stormy Daniels Offers Hush Money To Courtroom Sketch Artist To Please Stop Drawing Her https://t.co/PYUGCl9ELQ pic.twitter.com/L4xExf68JV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 9, 2024
The obesity gender differences around the world are interesting to study. Sometimes these long and skinny graphics don't display well on social media but the source is high res: https://t.co/LolHk6rH3U pic.twitter.com/zgsykdbuyI
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) May 10, 2024
Persians, ancient inhabitants of what is now Iran, created one of ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550-330 BC. At its height, Persian Empire, also known as Achaemenid Empire, stretched from eastern Mediterranean Sea to western border with… pic.twitter.com/QVAbOvKuAA
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) May 9, 2024
The dirty secret that confounds all modern attempts at improving outcomes by social engineering is that the low-IQ, the poor, and the badly behaved now pretty much coincide, statistically speaking.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) May 9, 2024
Why? Because free markets and meritocracy mine the virtuous poor for people who… https://t.co/gyoBelSmm0
The Great Eared Nightjar is pretty much
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 10, 2024
a dragon bird. pic.twitter.com/Y5vyxpUCTa
Just A Rabbit At Walmart pic.twitter.com/V9wk5kq0AU
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 9, 2024
This is such great news:
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) May 9, 2024
The world seems to have passed peak pollution. pic.twitter.com/5nESPM8Gxv
The sound of ancient languanges
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 9, 2024
[🔊 EquatorAi]pic.twitter.com/3F8MgkgVUh
“Hey Google, How Many Jews Were Killed by Nazis?” vs. “Hey Google, what was the Nakba?”
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) May 8, 2024
There is something ROTTEN at Google.
🎥 @TZuckerbrot #AntizionismIsAntisemitism pic.twitter.com/H8mNNpOqNt
The majestic Sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is instantly recognizable by its brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 13, 2024
📸: NASA/STScI/AURA pic.twitter.com/jeQCTSIuZK
Socialists: Stop blaming us for the atrocities of the USSR and Mao. They weren't democratic and we don't actually support that.
— Jon Miltimore (@miltimore79) May 9, 2024
Jacobin: the Berlin Wall wasn't as bad as people think. https://t.co/q7GugYonTn
Proof that men hit the wall at age 15 https://t.co/kEtl3SgWD0
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) May 9, 2024
The incumbents definitely deserve to lose and their opponents don't deserve to win.
William C Beall, of the Washington Daily News, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for this photograph of a policeman and a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade 1957. Photographed by William C Belle. pic.twitter.com/nezg7AC3Am
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) May 10, 2024
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
— Seneca the Younger | Stoic Philosophy ✍️ (@SenecaQuote) May 9, 2024
It might have had a heart attack and someone notices the situation and he drives in front of the car and stops it!pic.twitter.com/2gkmKRZ0co
— Figen (@TheFigen_) May 9, 2024
The struggle is real 😉 pic.twitter.com/TtSLNZJKS5
— Very Finnish Problems (@VFinnishProbs) May 9, 2024
I propose that we show this chart to all incoming college students at orientation https://t.co/gIVhgwcz0v
— Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl 📈 (@jmhorp) May 9, 2024
The Bull Headed Lyre of Ur; was found in the Royal Cemetery of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur in present-day Iraq, in 1926-27. Dating to 2500 BC, it is one of the oldest stringed instruments ever found.
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) May 10, 2024
The bull's head is 40cm long and 25cm wide; it was made of gold, shell,… pic.twitter.com/pDP3I4uyQ3
The greatest improvements in the productive powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgement with which it is anywhere directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of division of labor.
— Adam Smith | Economist & Philosopher ✍️ (@AdamSmithQuote) May 9, 2024
The Roman grave memorial of Lucius Sitius Cicero, who lived 43 years, makes the perfect feline resting spot at Lambaesis Archaeological Museum, Algeria. pic.twitter.com/GDaG940aeY
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) May 10, 2024
Sex Differences in Disease Burden: Men lose more healthy years to premature death, women to ill-health and disability https://t.co/OiZZK3MS0q pic.twitter.com/a2Oy6cRZCo
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 8, 2024
"Ottoman Bird Houses"
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) May 9, 2024
An important element of Ottoman architecture in Türkiye, was addition of birdhouses affixed to outer walls of significant city structures, a safe space for regular avian guests to nest outside of mosques, inns, bridges, libraries, schools, and fountains.… https://t.co/g1fX6SVv2E
Steadily growing productivity which leads toSteadily growing economy
Steadily growing real income
Choice of jobsGood education institutionsGood public safety (personal and property)Equal application of the lawRespect for human rights (freedom of speech, religion, association, etc.)Sound money (low and predictable inflation)Sound public financeGood public infrastructure
Low cost of living
I stopped being a YIMBY because the advocates of building new homes don’t want to allow the building of homes according to what people want but rather according to their grandiose vision of future urbanism. What we get is a twee version of Le Corbusier’s planned urban communities where, rather than brutalist modernism we get a world filled with dull pastiche of Maida Vale mansion blocks.[snip]At first YIMBYs were consistent in seeing that the way to resolve the housing crisis was to increase the supply of land for development. Depending on where you lived there were different priorities - stopping single family zoning, scrapping urban growth boundaries, removing expectations of planning gain and making the permit process faster and more predictable. The feature of all these campaigns was that the way to ameliorate - hopefully end - the housing crisis was to reduce regulation and do less planning. Everywhere the cry was ‘build more houses’.The problem, however, is that YIMBYs were young(-ish), ideologically left wing and living a childless life in big cities. The simple truth about housing supply (if you increase the supply of land for building, the market will meet need and housing costs will become affordable) wasn’t good enough. Voices began to say it was more complicated and, as criticisms of YIMBYism arose, the YIMBYs backed away from their simple recognition that supply and demand is real and does largely determine values. The new urbanism stopped being about how you dropped house prices and reduced rents by building houses and began to embrace elements of trendy urbanism: a shift to talk about affordable homes not simply homes per se; an obsession with urban densification; and the embrace of environmentalism especially in the form of public transport. As a result YIMBYs stopped simply campaigning for more land supply and more homes, and instead began to talk about planned urban environments, agglomeration theory and using development to make public transport systems economically viable.
Imposed densificationMore money dumped in mass transit which no one ridesPenalties for cars which everyone prefersImposed speed limits to make commutes longer (Vision Zero)Aspirations towards walkable citiesImposed DEI principlesRedistribution and subsidy based on race and other preferred attributesImposed energy restrictions in pursuit of AGW goals (Net Zero and 100% clean or renewable energy)Rent controlSet asides (a percentage of new construction set aside for the poor)Focus on Affordable Housing (and Housing First) rather than focusing on Housing in generalExpanded imposed environmentalismAnti-family and more specifically anti-children policies (in effect if not explicitly acknowledged)Higher costs of everythingLess economic growth and dynamismLess choice/freedom
People are just so, so bad about mistaking the opinion of their peer group for broader public opinion. Including a lot of journalists and academics who cover this stuff for a living and ought to know better. It's kind of the Original Political Sin.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 9, 2024
A Rhopalonematid jelly (Crossota millsae) feeding with tentacles extended in all directions filmed at a depth of 1,015 meters (3,330 feet) off southwestern Puerto Rico.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 15, 2024
📽: NOAA OOER pic.twitter.com/SlKLNjOkmU
It’s fun that the US Presidential election has basically become a Kobayashi Maru situation
— Sean Tuffy (@SMTuffy) May 8, 2024
Women dying in childbirth dropping from a rate of one in 200 in 1936 to one in 3333 twenty years later in the US must be one of the most undercelebrated miracles of the 20th century. https://t.co/jNclJymxNK
— Sam Bowman (@s8mb) May 8, 2024
SCIENTIFIC Human intelligence is an important concept in psychology because it provides insights into many areas, including neurology, sociology, and health. Additionally, IQ scores can predict life outcomes in health, education, work, and socioeconomic status. Yet, most students of psychology do not have an opportunity to take a class on intelligence. To learn what psychology students typically learn about intelligence, we analyzed 29 textbooks for introductory psychology courses. We found that over 3/4 of textbooks contained inaccurate statements. The five most commonly taught topics were IQ (93.1% of books), Gardner’s multiple intelligences (93.1%), Spearman’s g (93.1%), Sternberg’s triarchic theory (89.7%), and how intelligence is measured (82.8%). We learned that most introductory psychology students are exposed to some inaccurate information about intelligence and may have the mistaken impression that nonmainstream theories (e.g., Sternberg’s or Gardner’s theories) are as empirically supported mainstream theories (such as Spearman’s g).
"Ottoman Bird Houses"
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) May 9, 2024
An important element of Ottoman architecture in Türkiye, was addition of birdhouses affixed to outer walls of significant city structures, a safe space for regular avian guests to nest outside of mosques, inns, bridges, libraries, schools, and fountains.… https://t.co/g1fX6SVv2E
GERMANY: "35% Drop In Tesla New Registrations"-"As Spiegel reports, the cars are just too expensive and impractical, and the government has stopped subsidizing sales."
— Brian Catt (@catandman) May 8, 2024
Who Knew? Also see heat pumps. Oh, & wind farms, & solar panels. No subsidies, no saleshttps://t.co/HOQDjDs1FJ
Dahlias becoming a hotel for frogs.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 10, 2024
Allison Lamb raises around 200 dahlias on her property and was delighted to discover that the blooms serve as a perfectly sized house for frogs.pic.twitter.com/IougniDAGh
“Whatever you are doing IRL, we will crush it and replace it with the black mirror”
— Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) May 8, 2024
I’ll say this: it’s refreshingly honest https://t.co/1F7vhi2khc
Our failure to reproduce Anderson et al (2023), The Myth of Man the Hunter, an effort led by @vivek_vasi, is now published: https://t.co/dSyd1xegio pic.twitter.com/8Uql2OtkHI
— Ed Hagen (@ed_hagen) May 7, 2024
The West has been below replacement level fertility before. By the 1920s, more than half of European nations had fertility rates below 2.1. But fertility recovered – often to far above replacement level – in the famous Baby Boom. How did we pull it off? (🧵) pic.twitter.com/z60u20Cnz3
— Works in Progress (@WorksInProgMag) May 8, 2024
To imagine a world without tribalism is to imagine a world without human beings. This kind of idealism is beyond useless. https://t.co/dDhvhO8C5M
— Damir Marusic (@dmarusic) May 8, 2024
To love and to be loved is necessary for every living being ♥️ pic.twitter.com/yWSAOMYLG0
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 9, 2024
Well, she can always go home and eat. Definitely not the brightest tool in the tool shed. Does anybody feel sorry for these people?
— Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) May 8, 2024
Actions have consequences. pic.twitter.com/danbrtQRsb
Arizona: Only 1 official ballot paper type was approved by Maricopa County for all 2020 counted ballots, yet 10 types were discovered by voter-volunteers amounting to over 200,000 ‘non-conforming’ (counterfeit) ballots that were counted in a race Joe Biden ‘won’ by far far less https://t.co/aDbxljl5Iz pic.twitter.com/ml31iYIAoB
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) May 7, 2024
"Daughter from California" syndrome is a phrase used in the American medical profession to describe a situation in which a hitherto disengaged relative challenges the care a dying elderly patient is being given, or insists that the medical team pursue aggressive measures to prolong the patient's life. In California, the "Daughter from California" is known as the "Daughter from New York"; the "Daughter from Ontario" is a Canadian variant. The "Daughter from California" is often described as angry, articulate, and uninformed.
Medical professionals say that because the "Daughter from California" has been absent from the life and care of the elderly patient, they are frequently surprised by the scale of the patient's deterioration, and may have unrealistic expectations about what is medically feasible. They may feel guilty about having been absent, and may therefore feel motivated to reassert their role as an involved caregiver. In his 2015 book The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care, American physician Angelo Volandes ascribes this to "guilt and denial", "not necessarily what is best for the patient"
Despite numerous meta-analyses, the true extent to which life satisfaction reflects personality traits has remained unclear due to overreliance on a single method to assess both and insufficient attention to construct overlaps. Using data from three samples tested in different languages (Estonian, N = 20,886; Russian, N = 768; English, N = 600), we combined self- and informant-reports to estimate personality domains’ and nuances’ true correlations (rtrue) with general life satisfaction (LS) and satisfactions with eight life domains (DSs), while controlling for single-method and occasion-specific biases and random error, and avoiding direct construct overlaps. The associations replicated well across samples. The Big Five domains and nuances allowed predicting LS with accuracies up to rtrue ≈ .80–.90 in independent (sub)samples. Emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness correlated rtrue ≈ .30–.50 with LS, while its correlations with openness and agreeableness were small. At the nuances level, low LS was most strongly associated with feeling misunderstood, unexcited, indecisive, envious, bored, used, unable, and unrewarded (rtrue ≈ .40–.70). Supporting LS’s construct validity, DSs had similar personality correlates among themselves and with LS, and an aggregated DS correlated rtrue ≈ .90 with LS. LS’s approximately 10-year stability was rtrue = .70 and its longitudinal associations with personality traits mirrored cross-sectional ones. We conclude that without common measurement limitations, most people’s life satisfaction is highly consistent with their personality traits, even across many years. So, satisfaction is usually shaped by these same relatively stable factors that shape personality traits more broadly. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Hereberecht, Wigfus and Harraed ... just three of the English pilgrims to the shrine of St. Michael the Archangel at Gargano in southern Italy who carved their names in runic graffiti.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 8, 2024
Once they’d paid their respects to the Archangel, the Weigher of Souls, the pilgrims had the… pic.twitter.com/yx7FU855iU
“Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.”
— Aristotle | Greek Philosopher 📜 (@SaysAristotle) May 8, 2024
Sunlight on massive brass door, with surround of hand-chiselled zellij mosaic tiles at the Moroccan Royal Palace, Fez (Dar el Makhzen) photo: Charles O Cecil https://t.co/FqC3f27aw4 pic.twitter.com/zxnsUZplaC
— Journal of Art in Society (@artinsociety) May 9, 2024
Voters: sweet merciful heavenly Father, I beg you to give me a third choice
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 8, 2024
God: https://t.co/sl5AbxY874
A detailed and highly comprehensive piece on the funding and organizations behind the campus protests. Worth a careful read.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) May 8, 2024
The People Setting America on Fire - Tablet Magazine https://t.co/IoTvCbEAhA
Norse in Greenland
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) May 7, 2024
"At its peak, the Norse population numbered around 4000. The Eastern Settlement eventually included 190 farms, 12 parish churches, a cathedral, an Augustinian monastery and a Benedictine nunnery. The smaller Western Settlement had 90 farms and four churches." pic.twitter.com/uhZUngrUtI
Fox News has been around for a long time whereas the very steep decline in public perception of higher ed is quite recent (since ~2017). Colleges have a lot of problems, but voters correctly detecting an excess amount of wokeness or whatever you want to call it is one of them. https://t.co/NZtQivvekU
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 8, 2024
The genuinely steampunk vibes of this 1920 Westinghouse Gyro ceiling fanpic.twitter.com/48vqZkXMBQ
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 8, 2024
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) May 7, 2024
Holy shit
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/qWl0ar0BxT
Insane and frankly treacherous levels of social housing being allocated to foreign nationals by our affluent governing class at the expense of the British working class (have written about this several times but this data underlines the point) ⬇️ https://t.co/5H113zGm8n
— Patrick O'Flynn (@oflynnsocial) May 8, 2024
Misleading video clips of President Biden watching a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy went viral last week, prompting the White House to say Biden is victim to a simpler version of "deepfakes." So, what are "cheap fakes"? CBS News Confirmed Executive Editor… pic.twitter.com/o7mHw9U3s4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 18, 2024
But actually, he, if you widen the frame out, you can see he was talking to one of the members of the military that was participating in that demonstration.
How prevalent are deep fakes and how big a problem will they be in this election?
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
Kuelap, one of the largest ancient monuments of the Americas, was a fortified citadel in northern Peru on the slopes of the Andes.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 8, 2024
The remains of the settlement sit 3000m above sea level and the original fortress covered 15 hectares. It consisted of buildings of civil,… pic.twitter.com/sYMgHK0yfw
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.
— Niccolò Machiavelli | The Prince ⚔️ (@NiccoloDaily) May 7, 2024
One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
A ladybird beetle spreading its wings captured with a high-speed camera. In real-time wing deployment from the fully folded state takes less than 0.1 seconds.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 9, 2024
📽: University of Tokyo / Saito et al. pic.twitter.com/Qdiad0SBXO
Ex-CNN reporter #MichelleKosinski is getting heat for a tweet thread where she talked about the horror of having dinner with people whose opinions were different from hers. But I'll never forget the time she paddled by in ankle deep water while covering a flood. pic.twitter.com/UGawVbLXeK
— Mike Glenn (@MikeRGlenn) May 7, 2024
This is also a problem with many other alternative criminal justice proposals, like deploying social workers rather than cops to certain calls--social workers don't usually work graveyard shifts, and people having a mental health crisis don't customarily wait for business hours. https://t.co/gIEq41Xjjk
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 8, 2024
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families — increase the socioeconomic diversity of America’s leaders by changing their admissions policies? We use anonymized admissions data from several private and public colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study this question. Children from families in the top 1% are more than twice as likely to attend an Ivy-Plus college (Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Chicago) as those from middle-class families with comparable SAT/ACT scores. Two-thirds of this gap is due to higher admissions rates for students with comparable test scores from high-income families; the remaining third is due to differences in rates of application and matriculation. In contrast, children from high-income families have no admissions advantage at flagship public colleges. The high-income admissions advantage at private colleges is driven by three factors: (1) preferences for children of alumni, (2) weight placed on non-academic credentials, which tend to be stronger for students applying from private high schools that have affluent student bodies, and (3) recruitment of athletes, who tend to come from higher-income families. Using a new research design that isolates idiosyncratic variation in admissions decisions for waitlisted applicants, we show that attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average highly selective public flagship institution increases students’ chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 60%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm. Ivy-Plus colleges have much smaller causal effects on average earnings, reconciling our findings with prior work that found smaller causal effects using variation in matriculation decisions conditional on admission. Adjusting for the value-added of the colleges that students attend, the three key factors that give children from high-income families an admissions advantage are uncorrelated or negatively correlated with post-college outcomes, whereas SAT/ACT scores and academic credentials are highly predictive of post-college success. We conclude that highly selective private colleges currently amplify the persistence of privilege across generations, but could diversify the socioeconomic backgrounds of America’s leaders by changing their admissions practices.
WSJ editors/writers: 50%NYT editors/writers: 44%Senate: 41%Fortune 500 CEOs:41%
found that less than 1% of Americans attend the eight Ivy League schools, the University of Chicago, Duke, MIT, and Stanford, but these graduates account for 15% of those in the top 0.1% of the income distribution.
The parish whipping post, dating from 1752, in St Martin in the Fields. There's a sketch of it in Volume 20 of the Survey of London (1940), when it was in somewhat better condition. pic.twitter.com/sMFCQvp3E6
— Henry Long 🐦 (@HenryLong9) May 7, 2024
Norms on social media tend to be more extreme than offline norms – creating false perceptions of norms and potentially increasing pluralistic ignorance and false polarization say @CRobertson500 @KareenadelRosa @jayvanbavel from @nyuniversity https://t.co/iG6g5HBjni
— Sophie L. Vériter (@SLVeriter) May 4, 2024
Shipton's Arch, a remarkable natural formation nestled in the Uyghur Region. Located just west-northwest of Kashgar, it stands proudly near the village of Artush at an impressive altitude of 2973m.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) May 8, 2024
Believed to be one of the tallest natural arches on the planet, Shipton's Arch… pic.twitter.com/TiryRfO5k5
“It’s a bloody nightmare”
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) May 8, 2024
Meaning: Something is proving a mild inconvenience; typically used to describe slightly heavy traffic, or the internet not working
“It’s not ideal”
Meaning: Something terrible has happened and life is almost certainly ruined
How to read contour lines on topographic maps pic.twitter.com/8gcSUXcCKR
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 8, 2024
Bizarre fact: the architect who designed the Brooklyn Bridge (John Roebling) was Georg Hegel’s favourite philosophy student. Hegel inspired him to come to America. Hegel is the reason we have the Brooklyn Bridge pic.twitter.com/xak8SDKEI6
— Sam Enright (@Sam__Enright) May 7, 2024
Traditional Wood Joinery, interlocking joints and making long lasting connections without nails or glue
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 8, 2024
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This just won the internet for today. Hands down. 😭😂👏👏pic.twitter.com/q5iVa7JHSU
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2024
Holland Is Not A Dense Country, But An Empty City - https://t.co/cYCSrbnw1u
— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) May 6, 2024
1/3) A Roman brick from Cherchell, Algeria with a perfect 2,000-year-old imprint of a human hand... pic.twitter.com/6FkBYyhI4H
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) May 4, 2024
Tim Smit who restored the Lost Gardens of Heligan, describes finding a potting shed in which the under gardeners (teenagers) had written their names and the date (early 1910s). Then as he drove around surrounding villages he saw those names again on the war memorials. That’s why… https://t.co/A4TTWT8CCY
— Sir Harry Flashman (@FlashForFreedom) May 4, 2024
The Sun unleashing a spectacular solar flare and coronal mass ejection, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. pic.twitter.com/nmzPJ4BTk1
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 5, 2024
“In other news, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was presented with an award today for Highest Performing Stock Portfolio in Congressional History” pic.twitter.com/CYbJFgjThF
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) May 4, 2024
Antidepressant efficacy is inflated by the cumulative impact of publication bias, outcome reporting bias, spin, and citation bias on the evidence base.
— Nicholas Fabiano, MD (@NTFabiano) May 3, 2024
🧵1/12 pic.twitter.com/U4IeSFltVC
