During the Late Bronze Age, sets of vessels used for collective drinking become frequent between Transylvania and Scandinavia.
— Dr. Oliver Dietrich (@odietrich_) June 9, 2024
Situla and 11 cups, hoard found at Altenflieร in 1899 (today Przyลฤg, Poland). 1050-950 BCE. Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nรผrnberg. #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/kVz4nsxBH3
The most anti-scientific statement one could make is to claim that “the science is settled.” Settled science is an oxymoron. Scientists have vile disagreements in a wide range of scientific disciplines, but apparently that isn't allowed in fields that have become captive of a… https://t.co/iwO5GclPt1 pic.twitter.com/shHh1Kt22x
— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) June 9, 2024
Visiting the island of Socotra in Yemen can seem like you’re on another planet.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 9, 2024
307 out of the 825 or 37% of the plant species found on the island isn’t found anywhere else on Earth, including these dragon blood trees.pic.twitter.com/5NSRXaM7oi
Until 1956, French children attending school were served wine on their lunch breaks. pic.twitter.com/53TivhDWRs
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 8, 2024
Global public debt edged up to 93% of GDP in 2023 and remained 9 percentage points above the pre-pandemic level. The increase was led by the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies. Read why this matters in our blog. https://t.co/qIhD81DgPJ pic.twitter.com/A0zc77KTc1
— IMF (@IMFNews) June 9, 2024
Diomedes and Glaukos in Iliad 6 https://t.co/2iPyTAUvni
— sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) July 30, 2024
Now Diomedes and Glaucus, son of Hippolochus, met in the space between the armies, eager for the fight. When they had come within range, the son of Tydeus, he of the loud war-cry, called: ‘What mighty man are you, among mortals? I have never seen you on the field of honour before today, yet facing my long-shadowed spear, you show greater daring than all the rest. Unhappy are those whose sons meet my fury. But if you be one of the gods from heaven, I will not fight with the immortals. Not even mighty Lycurgus, son of Dryas, survived his war with the gods for long. He chased the nymphs, who nursed frenzied Dionysus, through the sacred hills of Nysa, and struck by the murderous man’s ox-goad their holy wands fell from their hands. But Dionysus fleeing, plunged beneath the waves, trembling and terrified by the man’s loud cries, and Thetis took him to her breast. Then the gods who take their ease were angered by Lycurgus, and Zeus blinded him. So that, hated by the immortals, he soon died. No way then would I wish to oppose the blessed gods. But if you are mortal, and eat the food men grow, come on, and meet the toils of fate the sooner.’‘Brave Diomedes’, Hippolochus’ son replied, ‘why ask my lineage? Like the generations of leaves are those of men. The wind blows and one year’s leaves are scattered on the ground, but the trees bud and fresh leaves open when spring comes again. So a generation of men is born as another passes away. Still if you wish to know my lineage, listen well to what others know already. There’s a town called Ephyre in a corner of Argos, the horse-pasture, and a man lived there called Sisyphus, the craftiest of men, a son of Aeolus. He had a son called Glaucus, and Glaucus was father of peerless Bellerophon, to whom the gods gave beauty and every manly grace. But Zeus made him subject to King Proetus, who was stronger and plotted against him, and drove him from Argive lands. Now Proetus’ wife, the fair Anteia, longed madly for Bellerephon, and begged him to lie with her in secret, but wise Bellerephon was a righteous man and could not be persuaded. So she wove a web of deceit, and said to King Proetus: ‘Kill this Bellerephon, who tried to take me by force, or die in the doing of it.’ The king was angered by her words. He would not kill Bellerephon, as his heart shrank from murder, but he packed him off to Lycia, and scratching many deadly signs on a folded tablet, gave him that fatal token, and told him to hand it to the Lycian king, his father-in-law, so to engineer his death. Bellerephon went to Lycia escorted by peerless gods, and when he reached the streams of Xanthus the king of great Lycia welcomed him with honour, entertaining him for nine days, and sacrificing nine oxen. But when rosy-fingered Dawn lit the tenth day his host questioned him, and asked what token he brought him from his son-in-law Proetus.On first deciphering the fatal message, he ordered Bellerephon to kill the monstrous Chimaera, spawned by gods and not men, that had a lion’s head, goat’s body and serpent’s tail, and breathed out deadly blasts of scorching fire. But Bellerephon slew her, guided by the gods. Next he was sent against the notorious Solymi, and fought, he said, the mightiest battle he ever fought. Then thirdly he slaughtered the Amazons, women the equal of men. The king planned a deadly ruse for his return, staging an ambush by the pick of the Lycian warriors. But not one of them returned: the peerless Bellerephon killed them all. The king then realised he was a true son of the gods, and offered him his daughter and half of his kingdom, to stay. The Lycians moreover marked out for him an estate of the first rank, with tracts of orchards and plough-land for his delight.The lady bore Bellerephon, that warlike man, three children, Isander, Hippolochus and Laodameia. Zeus the Counsellor slept with Laodameia and she bore godlike Sarpedon, now a bronze-clad warrior. But the time came when Bellerephon too was loathed by the gods, and wandered off alone over the Aleian plain, eating his heart away and shunning the ways of men. Ares, unwearied by war, killed his son Isander, battling with the glorious Solymi; and Laodameia was slain in anger by Artemis of the Golden Reins. Hippolochus remained and fathered me, and from him I claim descent. He sent me here to Troy and charged me earnestly to be the best and bravest, and not bring shame on my ancestors the best men in Ephyre and all broad Lycia. Such is my lineage, from that blood am I sprung.’Diomedes, of the loud war-cry rejoiced at these words. Planting his spear in the fertile earth, he spoke to the Lycian general courteously: ‘You are, then, a friend of long-standing to my father’s house, since noble Oeneus once entertained peerless Bellerephon in his palace, and kept him there twenty days. Moreover they exchanged fine friendship gifts. Oeneus gave him a bright scarlet belt, and Bellerephon replied with a two-handled gold cup, which was there in the palace when I came away. But Tydeus my father I scarce remember, since I was a little child when he left, when the Achaean warriors died at Thebes. So I will be your good friend at home in Argos, and you will be mine in Lycia, should I come to visit. Let us avoid each other’s spear in the battle, there are plenty more Trojans and their worthy allies for me to slay, if a god lets my feet overtake them, and many Greeks for you to kill, if you can. Let us exchange our armour then, that those around may know that our grandfather’s friendship makes us two friends.’At this, the two leapt down from their chariots, and clasped each other’s hands as a pledge of their good faith.
Roman terracotta amphorae found in Pisa, classified by type. This section of the wall has vessels used to transport goods that are dated to the 1st C BC through 1st C AD which is in the Museum of the Ancient Ships of Pisa in #Pisa, #Italy.#archaeology #tuscany #italia #ancient pic.twitter.com/lK6AM5xFTY
— Decimus Claudius (@decimusclaudius) June 8, 2024
The actions of Tim Geithner at the @NewYorkFed from 2003-2009 & then as Obama's Treasury Secretary from 2009-2013 make very little sense if you think Geithner cared about the public, but make perfect sense if you think Geithner wanted to end up as President of Warburg Pincus. pic.twitter.com/T796nP4b0i
— Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. (@RudyHavenstein) February 14, 2019
Today's #DavesCarIDService salutes another old timey motorist made of sterner stuff: Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22 year old housewife and mother from Hackensack NJ, who 115 years ago today embarked on a successful attempt to drive from NYC to San Francisco in a 1908 Maxwell Model 30. pic.twitter.com/dswegAVzTd
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 9, 2024
The exact moment the penguin realised…
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 9, 2024
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When you see prices from the past, here is a handy guide for remembering what average hourly wages were in the US
— Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl ๐ (@jmhorp) June 9, 2024
2024: $30
2013: $20
2002: $15
1990: $10
1976: $5
1964: $2.50
Source: https://t.co/IsXzYaWf6V
By tomorrow afternoon, Harris will have repudiated everything she said she believed while serving in the Senate and while running for president in 2019. Or to put it another way: On policy, she has decided to be unburdened by what has been.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) July 29, 2024
The Polish spirit
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 9, 2024
[๐️ stefan_tompson]pic.twitter.com/Po9a18dAxF
All rich countries have free markets (except pretrostates), but they differ in how generous their welfare states are. Also there are no poor countries that have free markets. pic.twitter.com/4ggHiXxsj8
— Vlad Tarko ๐ ๐️ ๐ (@vladtarko) June 9, 2024
Topography of South America pic.twitter.com/vQrHmFXRMN
— Epic Maps ๐บ️ (@Locati0ns) June 8, 2024
How often do you pay with cash? pic.twitter.com/QXBwcklu9F
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) June 9, 2024
If renewables are the cheapest form of energy, why do they need billions of dollars in subsidies? https://t.co/moT9NZKGPV pic.twitter.com/yE32rpDW10
— Erik Lindberg (@ErikLindy) June 8, 2024
this is not just google. it’s one big memory hole. i know some of the people who run these engines. some (like bendan eich) are longtime gatopals™.they are not part of a shadowy cabal to erase the trump shooting.i think this is something deeper and it’s at the media level, not the search engine level.i think the most parsimonious explanation is not coordinated search engine meddling but rather the fact that there is nothing for which to search.you simply do not see these words, “assassination” and “attempt” in the news stories to which things are linked.you can find them in social media, but they are basically absent in media media.they simply refused to call it that.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than the construction of the pyramids.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 7, 2024
Cleopatra was born around the year 69 BCE, and died in 30 BCE, so just about 2000 years before the 1969 first Moon landing.
The iconic Great Pyramid of Giza was build under Pharoah Khufu… pic.twitter.com/IV2nFR20iW
Not having control over your emotions is a crucial weakness.
— Reach Mastery ๐ (@reachmastery) June 7, 2024
Practise hard to gain some control over them.
Otherwise, be prepared to witness the world destroy you from the inside.
Lovely relief map of Manhattan made from LiDAR data pic.twitter.com/1RR0LwOHUQ
— Thinkwert (@Thinkwert) June 9, 2024
What does an escalator say when it stops working?
— PUNS (@ThePunnyWorld) June 8, 2024
Nothing it just stairs.
๐ฌ๐ง๐จ‼️ When the government says they have lowered inflation to 2% that’s what they mean.
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 8, 2024
That’s a scam … pic.twitter.com/jhfd2yLEEC
7 June 1494: #Spain and #Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the New World between them. Other #European countries generally ignore the treaty. #history #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad https://t.co/4MlPoMzJav pic.twitter.com/O9mxIz74Ji
— Today In History (@URDailyHistory) June 7, 2024
Has the collective "brain" of society -- as demonstrated on X -- surpassed science for predictive accuracy?
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) June 8, 2024
I ask because scientists seem consistently a few years behind the average shitposter on X.
And the "real" science is just follow-the-money bullshit. https://t.co/ENm5VE10E9
I have cleaned & enhanced for you the oldest verified photograph of London, taken 185 years ago, in September 1839. This is a daguerreotype photograph, taken at Trafalgar Square, looking past the equestrian statue of King Charles into Whitehall and Parliament Street beyond. The… pic.twitter.com/ISTyiduxMb
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) June 7, 2024
I tweet some version of this every few months, but always helpful to keep in mind that a substantial fraction of the people you interact with online are literally deranged and insane.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 9, 2024
Liam Neeson Criticized For Killing 31 Innocent Human Traffickers Just To Get Back One Hostage https://t.co/pag9ktHlKR via @TheBabylonBee
— Charles Bayless (@CharlesBayless) June 9, 2024
Nah, once the colonizers left, most countries started moving toward their Deep Roots Destiny.
— Garett Jones (@GarettJones) June 8, 2024
You can predict Old World prosperity pretty well by knowing the technology level in 1500.
Before colonialism.@crampell summed it up a while back.
Plus รงa change... pic.twitter.com/HZvU1xDbkj
Slightly related: history of Danish India.
the town of Tharangambadi in present-day Tamil Nadu state, Serampore in present-day West Bengal, and the Nicobar Islands, currently part of India's union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Organised European colonisation on the islands began with the Danish East India Company in 1754/56. During this time they were administered from Tranquebar (in continental Danish India) under the name of Frederiksรธerne. Missionaries from the Moravian Church Brethren's settlement in Tranquebar attempted a settlement on Nancowry and died in great numbers from disease. The islands were repeatedly abandoned due to outbreaks of malaria: 1784–1807/09, 1830–1834, and finally from 1848 gradually for good.
Several trading stations in the vicinity of modern Ghana. I do recall these.And of course, St. Thomas, and St. Jan (now St. John), and St. Croix in the Caribbean. I knew about these as well but hadn't thought of them in a long while.
Because there are still people who don't understand how abysmally bad prenatal testing is, I want to give you the regular reminder that even tests for extremely-recognizable conditions like Down's Syndrome are mostly wrong. pic.twitter.com/RqgNbCspqf
— Lyman Stone ็ณไพๆฐ ๐ฆฌ๐ฆฌ๐ฆฌ (@lymanstoneky) June 6, 2024
As I was told when I joined Bell Labs:
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) June 9, 2024
"You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!"
One of the most difficult things about managing a research lab is to be welcoming of intellectual weirdness.
Intellectual weirdness is sometimes accompanied by nerdy personality… https://t.co/oFTI3NH7rl
A man from 'Dinka' tribe in southern Sudan with his family's cattle...
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) June 7, 2024
Dinka people are one of the Nilotic tribes that have lived in Sudanese region of Africa since 3000 BC. Also known as Moinjaang or people of the people, Dinka tribe has maintained a unique cultural and… pic.twitter.com/ctxM0yTU8a
The income-latitude gradient.
— Whyvert (@whyvert) June 7, 2024
I marked some of the positive outliers, countries richer than you would predict from their latitude.
Many have a commonality: settlement from elsewhere.
A big support for culture transplant theory: migrants retain their initial traits. pic.twitter.com/9UJfzrbLBm
When Warren Buffet was just a young early-career businessman, he wanted to join a country club. Although he wasn’t Jewish, he was so angry that his local country club banned Jews that he applied to join the Jewish country club instead. The Jewish country club wasn’t sure they accepted non-Jews, but local rabbi Myer Kripke spoke in Buffett’s favor and he was eventually accepted. Buffett repaid the rabbi’s kindness by helping him invest his money. He turned Rabbi Kripke’s life savings of $70,000, into $25 million, helping the rabbi and his wife become two of America’s leading Jewish philanthropists. Extra bonus facts: Rabbi Kripke was the father of Saul Kripke, sometimes considered the greatest modern philosopher, and the second cousin of Eric Kripke, showrunner for The Boys.
Trench Ratby Rachel FlemingA battered Woodbine is a precious thing.If you can light the bugger, better still.Inhale the harsh, uplifting, acrid smokeand, for a fleeting moment, you’re a King.Dear old King George can keep his best cigarsand damn Lloyd George, may that sly bastard choke.It’s him and and not the Hun I’d choose to killto end this bloody war to end all wars.
Wednesday 24th June 1914: This is the original Moulin Rouge, famous Parisian cabaret venue which burnt down in 1915. I've cleaned & enhanced this autochrome, taken in the Boulevard de Clichy by Stephane Passet. It's original colour (not colourised). pic.twitter.com/ez4gyXHnPn
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) August 16, 2022
A Return Too Long Carrier Deployments
— Brent D. Sadler (@brentdsadler) June 7, 2024
It was a norm long ago when we had a more right sized Navy, and a more pacific world that deployments would be 6 months in length…
Allowed time for crew to rest and recoup and reengage with family before the next deployment. Importantly,… pic.twitter.com/ehP1wwy0Eg
Crime is not down.
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) June 24, 2024
DAs dropping cases is up. pic.twitter.com/yTQ3cWCjXd
The satellite-strewn sky, in a stack of cumulative exposures taken over just 30 minutes on June 4/5, 2024 from latitude 51° N, looking south. The field is 100° by 75°. There's one natural streak, from a meteor, at center. The others are from what humans put there. @twanight pic.twitter.com/b0hSSoA3C6
— Alan Dyer (@amazingskyguy) June 6, 2024
Don’t go to jail if you stutter.
— PUNS (@ThePunnyWorld) June 8, 2024
You’ll never finish your sentence.
Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY pic.twitter.com/5yd8y0Fre1
— RG Poulussen (@rgpoulussen) June 6, 2024
Mind and Mythos essay club looks at GK Chesterton’s Defense of Heraldry. Key quotes:When the great trumpet of equality was blown, almost immediately afterwards was made one of the greatest blunders in the history of mankind. For all this pride and vivacity, all these towering symbols and flamboyant colours, should have been extended to mankind. The tobacconist should have had a crest, and the cheesemonger a war-cry … Instead of doing this, the democrats made the appalling mistake—a mistake at the root of the whole modern malady—of decreasing the human magnificence of the past instead of increasing it. They did not say, as they should have done, to the common citizen, 'You are as good as the Duke of Norfolk,' but used that meaner democratic formula, 'The Duke of Norfolk is no better than you are.'
One of the prominent characteristics of Armenian identity is its alphabet and also language. The precise origin of language could be little obscure, as it’s considered one amongst world’s ancient languages. Armenian alphabet isn't only an enigma when it involves its creation, it… pic.twitter.com/T02Yb2vXiT
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) June 9, 2024
Henry David Thoreau, giving you that extra push. pic.twitter.com/kjzZt2xku1
— CoffeeWithTheClassics (@CoffeewClassics) June 6, 2024
Soprano Magda Olivero at the age of 42 vs 96 pic.twitter.com/ZRCfZiTTu5
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 5, 2024
why does this 800 year old quote about london lowkey make it sound really cool?? pic.twitter.com/pB8te7nS9n
— weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !! (@WeirdMedieval) June 8, 2024
While Nazi/Soviet purges of Polish intelligentsia are well known, the figures here are horrific. I consider myself fairly well read on WWII, but these stats were new to me. Always learning.
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) June 7, 2024
Excerpt from John Connelly's 'Nazis and Slavs: From Racial Theory to Racist Practice': pic.twitter.com/lTiRUAehPM
William “Wild Bill” Langer was governor of North Dakota in the 1930s. He’s best known for his corruption trial; after receiving a guilty verdict, he “signed a Declaration of Independence of North Dakota, declared martial law in Bismarck, and barricaded himself in the governor's mansion”. The North Dakotans didn’t go along with it, but they didn’t hold a grudge either - they re-elected him two years later.
This moment. Taps. 103 year old N Texan Vernon Mitchell, among the group of 68 WW2 heroes paying tribute to the fallen on Omaha beach today. Seeing it all through his eyes, his grandson Adam. Living history. #Normandy #DDay80 pic.twitter.com/ofdTlnu1YJ
— Doug Dunbar (@cbs11doug) June 5, 2024
We are seeing multiple "Americas" compete with each other to some degree. Competition across states, industrial empires, POV. We are watching vouchers compete with straight public schooling etc. Naturally we are seeing contrasts and over time that favors some "Americas".
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 6, 2024
Ducks employed as pest control in rice fields
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 6, 2024
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#CaturdayEve pic.twitter.com/rhCLsB4TbU
— Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_HelenDale) June 7, 2024
Because there are still people who don't understand how abysmally bad prenatal testing is, I want to give you the regular reminder that even tests for extremely-recognizable conditions like Down's Syndrome are mostly wrong. pic.twitter.com/RqgNbCspqf
— Lyman Stone ็ณไพๆฐ ๐ฆฌ๐ฆฌ๐ฆฌ (@lymanstoneky) June 6, 2024
This paper provides new evidence on the causal relationship between income and health by
studying a randomized experiment in which 1,000 low-income adults in the United States received $1,000 per month for three years, with 2,000 control participants receiving $50 over that same period. The cash transfer resulted in large but short-lived improvements in stress and food security, greater use of hospital and emergency department care, and increased medical spending of about $20 per month in the treatment relative to the control group. Our results also suggest that the use of other office-based care—particularly dental care—may have increased as a result of the transfer. However, we find no effect of the transfer across several measures of physical health as captured by multiple well-validated survey measures and biomarkers derived from blood draws. We can rule out even very small improvements in physical health and the effect that would be implied by the cross-sectional correlation between income and health lies well outside our confidence intervals. We also find that the transfer did not improve mental health after the first year and by year 2 we can again reject very small improvements. We also find precise null effects on self-reported access to health care, physical activity, sleep, and several other measures related to preventive care and health behaviors. Our results imply that more targeted interventions may be more effective at reducing health inequality between high- and low-income individuals, at least for the population and time frame that we study.
The medieval Ingush towers, known as “vepshi,” were primarily constructed between 13th-17th Centuries CE, by Ingush people, a native ethnic group in the North Caucasus region. These towers are located in mountainous areas of what is now the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia.
— ArchaeoHistories (@histories_arch) June 6, 2024
The… pic.twitter.com/aINPKncCbV
A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) June 6, 2024
An incredible instance of an octopus disguising itself as the head of a bigger marine creature.pic.twitter.com/9UVpkV1C1D
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 6, 2024
Clarence Thomas been sitting in Washington playing the loooooong game! LMFAO.
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) July 1, 2024
Stuff it, Joe. Pay back's a bitch. pic.twitter.com/FyxXv1e5Ok
Remember, activists are using the existence of the white box below in order to argue that the blue and pink areas are meaningless "social constructs" with no basis in biological reality. pic.twitter.com/KI7XdNnGb5
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) June 6, 2024
A solid gold vase of the Roman era, found on the seabed near the ancient city of Knidos, Asia Minor (modern Datรงa Peninsula, Turkey). c.25 BC, British Museum. pic.twitter.com/u0lauwFmu6
— Gareth Harney (@OptimoPrincipi) June 5, 2024
This has an important implication: In ordinary social life (and in the small-scale societies that characterise almost all of human evolution), humans can typically check what people tell them against reality. That is, although our species has always depended on communication and social trust, we can often test people’s trustworthiness. If Harry tells me that Sally is dull, and I learn firsthand that she is exciting and interesting, I will decrease my trust in Harry.Nothing like this is true in democratic politics. We can rarely directly verify the information we acquire from others. We can cross-check it against the competing testimony of others, but we cannot directly verify that testimony either. This complicates the optimistic vision of a “marketplace of ideas.”
The thing to do now is hit the shwerpunkt hard, and push the national balance as far as possible against a shattered and demoralized opposition, who saw their core beliefs revealed to be nonsense and their prophets exposed as IQ-98 fools. Take back entire systems and make them… https://t.co/jvY30bnFOq
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) June 5, 2024
The ultimate camouflage of an Indian scops owl
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 5, 2024
[๐ท Sanjeev Kapadia] pic.twitter.com/h2jjZMhKMT
Fun fact, Joe Biden’s birth in 1942 was closer in time to Sherman’s burning of Atlanta in 1864 than to the Presidential debate in Atlanta this year. pic.twitter.com/ZsjE5yWNYW
— Carlos Mucha (@mucha_carlos) July 2, 2024
“Although men still earn more than women on average, we’ve come surprisingly close to achieving equal pay for equal work. Women in the U.S. now earn 99 cents for every dollar that men earn, all else being equal.” https://t.co/I0ZHJ1AQ27 pic.twitter.com/ypHIG1qoBp
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) June 6, 2024
First ever color TV broadcast, 1958 pic.twitter.com/PdOwwfG6XY
— zain tweets๐ค (@ZainU21848152) June 5, 2024
Aldous Huxley's passage on the power of ideas will blow you away pic.twitter.com/lqTgBoDNnn
— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) June 5, 2024
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl, made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in mold. Timeless beauty!
— Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) June 5, 2024
Dating late 1st BC–early 1st AD, found in Cuora, Cavarzere, Italy
Photo: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria#RomanArchaeology pic.twitter.com/pxBI8EyyMs
"Three common misperceptions: that average exposure to problematic content is high, that algorithms are largely responsible for this exposure and that social media is a primary cause of broader social problems such as polarization." Great paper. https://t.co/AWqYcINs5F pic.twitter.com/Szy5eq5rCR
— Dan Williams (@danwilliamsphil) June 5, 2024
Marvellous Minoan basket-shaped vessel decorated with double axes.
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) June 5, 2024
This lovely ceramic rhyton is about 3,500 years old, yet the design looks so modern!
From Pseira. Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. ๐ท my own#Archaeology pic.twitter.com/4Fr6koHCbs
Vฤซvere mฤซlitฤre est.
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) June 5, 2024
— Seneca
“To live is to fight.” pic.twitter.com/AzobIFs0S4
Stunning polished slab of fossiliferous limestone! Check out the amazing detail of these ancient creatures.
— Geology Tweets (@GeologyTime) June 6, 2024
Photo ©️ Gelerypetriefiedwood pic.twitter.com/aiSgM18KXr
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— Foster (@foster_type) June 6, 2024
The majority of American adults of all ethnoracial backgrounds view the Supreme Court's decision to ban race in college admission decisions last year as a good thing. https://t.co/RPF3xYKejg #ourcommonhumanity
— Nicholas A. Christakis (@NAChristakis) June 6, 2024
A bust of the #Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, hammered from a single sheet of gold. The bust (weight ca. 1590 grams) was found in 1939 in a sewer in front of the so-called Sanctuaire du Cigognier in Aventicum, present-day Avenches, .... 1/2 #RomanArchaeology pic.twitter.com/KFJUy5ntJw
— Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) June 6, 2024
Aldous Huxley explains how communists won’t stop until every last man is an NPC pic.twitter.com/L6f74WShXI
— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) June 6, 2024
Taking photos with a 126 year old camera, loaded with expired black & white film. pic.twitter.com/LRHfIFB9Oz
— zain tweets๐ค (@ZainU21848152) June 5, 2024
apparently, youtuber alex choi is in trouble over this photoshoot and facing federal charges.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) June 7, 2024
be a shame if everyone saw how completely awesome this video was. pic.twitter.com/3MHLKL8HAo
During the Mesolithic period, approximately 10,000 years ago and before the glacial maximum waned, Doggerland existed.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 5, 2024
It was made of marshes, swamps, wooded valleys and hills, and most likely inhabited by humans, migrating wildlife: a seasonal hunting ground for people living… pic.twitter.com/1GzUspcGEu
On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) June 6, 2024
At the time, many thought it was the end of the world. This woodcut by Adolf Vollmy was inspired by the event. pic.twitter.com/29sRJBG70w
Paradoxically, the stronger a normative script, the *more* tolerant it can be of deviations, because they're less likely to set off a preference cascade.
— Cameron Harwick ๐พ๐ (@C_Harwick) June 3, 2024
So liberal tolerance *requires* strong normative scripts. Otherwise social contagion makes normative battles existential.
Blue tit singing on a cold early morning you can see its song in the air pic.twitter.com/2U3f5jhmpS
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 5, 2024
friendly reminder:
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) June 6, 2024
no matter what politicians pretend, the real minimum wage is always zero. pic.twitter.com/ZocE5bKRmv
Today’s rapists are not confused about whether maybe rape is okay. https://t.co/hTq7HiqGU2
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 5, 2024
You’ve seen the famous Tank Man photo from Tiananmen Square of a brave protector standing up to Communist tanks.
— Logan Dobson (@LoganDobson) June 4, 2024
But have you seen the full zoomed-out shot that shows the full scale of what he was standing up to, 35 years ago tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/Xi3xIWp12j
I don't know how this ends, but a doom spiral as taxes and crime rise, city services deteriorate, and taxpayers with better options flee beyond the limits, seems unfortunately plausible. https://t.co/OkxaNC1qgH
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 4, 2024
Baobab, a prehistoric species which predates both mankind and splitting of continents over 200 million years ago. Baobabs (Adansonia) are distinctive trees with incredibly large trunks. They can store tremendous amounts of water, as their trunks noticeably swell during the rainy… pic.twitter.com/hdwlvqB4Y1
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) June 5, 2024
Ravens are just feathered dogs ๐ pic.twitter.com/qkMiMm2XHq
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 6, 2024
Also depressing that the democratic primary is “the election” because DC is a one-party state. https://t.co/JOadZu8uQF
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) June 5, 2024
More than 10,000 years ago, a woman or young man carried a toddler across a muddy expanse in what is now New Mexico’s White Sands National Park. Their tracks are giving modern scientists a window into the past. These prehistoric traveler embarked on a journey carrying a child,… pic.twitter.com/EgucbQ18Jz
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) June 4, 2024
increasingly convinced the ‘raising awareness’ model of activism not only doesn’t work but is actively harmful for some causes: if you’re serious about moving policy you don’t *want* awareness of the issue raised https://t.co/F2Y2oe8oJw
— William B. Fuckley (@opinonhaver) June 4, 2024
Pure joy.. ๐ pic.twitter.com/y4J9ub6Qwo
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 3, 2024
There can be no genetic or cultural reason for this.
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) June 5, 2024
What we are dealing with is a rigged global system of sporting institutions, which - while facially neutral in appearance - works constantly behind the scenes to ensure Kenyan Kalenjin...and Kikuyu (KKK) supremacy. Ugly stuff. https://t.co/SMVgC5Nk44
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