Sennacherib Prism (691 BC), also known as Taylor Prism, an ancient Assyrian artifact that provides valuable historical and archaeological insights into reign of King Sennacherib, who ruled Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705-681 BC. The prism is named after British archaeologist Colonel… pic.twitter.com/WUEp5Yom8v
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) April 11, 2024
I quickly recognized that the best thing about Harvard was the other kids. They were a fascinating bunch, not just smart but with all sorts of quirky intellectual passions. So it was great for me, coming out of an Iowa small town. Not so great for someone who has never been… https://t.co/O195Em9eQB
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) April 22, 2024
Farm animals come together to save a chicken from a hawk attack pic.twitter.com/27ZeC59xx8
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 11, 2024
You can’t understand the social world (or indeed the natural world) if you don’t understand graphs like this:
The size of snowflakes, the weight of newborns, milk production in cows – all of these phenomena are normally distributed. That is, most of the data points are to be found around the middle point, while just a few are to be found at the extremes (‘the tails’). The resulting graph looks like a bell, hence the term ‘bell curve.’Overlapping bell curves are also common, and are a useful way to visualise a lot of human phenomena. Some are easy enough to understand. Male height is normally distributed, as is female height, but the male mean is about four inches greater than the female. This is the result:
There are plenty of men and women to be found in the 5’6” to 5’8” range, but very few men are shorter than 5 foot, and very few women are taller than 6 foot. This is the nature of overlapping bell curves: the differences between groups are most obvious at the tails.For a very visible trait like height, this is intuitive enough. Everyone understands that the existence of one tall woman does not disprove the assertion that men are the taller sex. We can hold both ideas in our heads simultaneously without any difficulty.But it is less intuitive for psychological phenomena, particularly those with any kind of political charge. Differences between male and female desire for sexual variety, for example (also known as sociosexuality), could be represented as overlapping bell curves. Women with an unrestricted sociosexual orientation exist, but they are rare. To run with the comparison with male and female height, someone very sexually adventurous like Aella should be thought of as the equivalent of a 6 foot woman.
When it comes to most of the major psychological sex differences, I am typical of my sex. I am more agreeable, risk averse, and neurotic than the average man, and I also have a restricted sociosexual orientation (or, colloquially, I like being monogamous and vanilla). I’m generally more interested in people than in things. I regard spending time with my children as more important than my career, and have turned down a lot of professional opportunities as a result (one of the causes of the gender pay gap). I cry easily, particularly in response to the suffering of vulnerable people and animals. I enjoy sewing, interior design magazines, and cooking. I have no interest in watching sports.But on one crucial point, I am abnormal. When behavioural scientist Cory Clark appeared on my podcast earlier this year, she spoke of the tendency for women to prioritise being kind over being truthful – a tendency that I don’t share. A tendency that I regard, in fact, as very bad and very stupid, which apparently makes me unusual for a woman.
In 2008, DC refused to grant me a driver’s license or register the car I’d just bought until I served a three month suspension.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) April 11, 2024
For an underaged drinking offense I committed in a different state.
In 1992.
When I didn’t have a driver’s license Pennsylvania could suspend. https://t.co/BfogFAGf4d
Did you know that the white and red stripes on a windsock are not for decoration?
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 11, 2024
They actually indicate precise wind speeds.
Here's how. pic.twitter.com/Hpt8aDJ4WJ
Because Guyana was under British control which had abolished slavery early, instead of African slaves, laborers were imported from India. Today this Latin American country has South Asian as its largest ancestry. from 23andMe data. pic.twitter.com/kaKOsjzV1P
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) April 6, 2024
Middle class Americans live in the richest country on earth at a time of unprecedented global prosperity and have let online ragebait convince themselves that they are living through awful historical circumstances. https://t.co/hy9c68FgRM
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 11, 2024
Is this a great country or what. https://t.co/prtFDKfNPU
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) April 11, 2024
"I can't believe the leopards ate my face," says man who hosted back yard Face-Eating Leopard mixer https://t.co/EpPksnOj2y
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 10, 2024
In 1880, the avg married couple combined for ~68 hours of paid labor each week.
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) April 10, 2024
By 1965, after massive tech and social changes, the avg married couple workweek was ... 67 hours.
In 2003? 67 hours.
In 2020? 67 hours.
My essay on wtf is going on —>https://t.co/laNO2GJZmK
A study of a San Francisco nonprofit’s $100 million effort to reduce chronic homelessness by half in five years shows the effort fell significantly short of its goal.
A government survey found about 6,800 individuals experienced homelessness in San Francisco in 2017; by 2022, the number grew to 7,750.
This map shows the distribution of ancient cuneiform inscriptions. Both of the red dots that are in northern Romania and southern Egypt are inscribed with the exact same sentence. Guess it. pic.twitter.com/wqySJ8cu5M
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) April 10, 2024
The censor doesn't refute the argument. That is beneath him. Rather, he declares those who dare question orthodoxy as hateful. Bigots, racists, hirelings, saboteurs. In the Judge's description of Elon, criminals. Censorship does not argue the facts, it accuses the dissenter.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 10, 2024
Fourth, outside agitators have become involved to an alarming extent. Police made arrests at 22 universities from Saturday to Tuesday; and, in 11 out of 12 instances where the numbers are known, they arrested more outsiders than students. In multiple instances, these outside agitators even participated in illegally occupying campus buildings. It is unacceptable that a handful of activists, with no connection to a university, can seize its property and hold it hostage to absurd demands.
Remembering this classic. pic.twitter.com/jiFkLMUkwb
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 10, 2024
In the Journals of Samuel Pepys(1660–9), he talks about how his many affairs were preferably targeted at married women so a bastard could not be traced to him. Birth control may have lowered the false paternity rate by allowing people to philander without the risk of pregnancy. https://t.co/dOBQNHGt7J
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) April 6, 2024
Incapacity to articulate reasoned positions much less to make evidence-based arguments.Inclination to rely on coercion (deceit, fraud) rather than persuasion.Inability to distinguish coercion from necessary unpleasant trade-offs.
In general, I suspect that the primary reason why people think rational arguments do not work is because they simply do not have good arguments for their views, and the reason they do not have good arguments for their views is because their views are bad and uninformed. “Why don’t people see the self-evident truth of my political worldview?! They must be in denial, or irrational, or brainwashed, or subject to false consciousness, or … etc.” There are entire schools of intellectual inquiry founded on this kind of attitude. In fact, the main reason why people are not persuaded to accept the worldviews of passionate ideologues and activists is because those worldviews are typically simplistic, biased, ignorant, and dogmatic.If rational persuasion works, but it only works when views are supported by evidence and good arguments, there is something troubling about people and groups that opt for the pressure strategy instead of the persuasion strategy. Even though their beliefs are sincere, they should ask themselves: If I lack confidence in my ability to persuade others of these beliefs, should I be persuaded myself?
So an alternative explanation for widespread perception of moral decline is that each generation observes moral decline relative to its own standards. If you were born in 1940, you absorbed 1940 morality. The year 2020 does worse at 1940 morality than the year 1940 did, because the year 2020 isn’t trying to achieve 1940 morality, it’s trying to achieve 2020 morality, which is only partly correlated.
Grand Staircase of Palace of Knossos (2000-1400 BC) in east wing of Palace is leading to Royal Apartments, and it is considered a miracle of architecture; Knossos, Crete - Greece.
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) April 10, 2024
The palace of Knossos, the most important centre of the Minoan civilisation, is located in the… pic.twitter.com/4iTyuUe0L8
JK Rowling, the other famous personality in the censorship debate notes that even scientific reviews critical of transgender conversion for kids are shut down as shoddy or hateful. Some ideologies can only survive if they censor opponents.https://t.co/zORSzBtiXI
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) April 10, 2024
An amazing example of the subsun optical phenomenon, caused by sunlight reflecting off tiny ice crystals in the atmosphere.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) April 10, 2024
📽: Gaby Chavez pic.twitter.com/OCBZPUP1wV
very important <3 pic.twitter.com/zbnnYTlJAA
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) April 10, 2024
👩👩🦱When did women get the right to vote in europe👧🙅♀️🌐🗺 pic.twitter.com/Z4F4Bi7kN4
— Epic Maps 🗺️ (@Locati0ns) April 10, 2024
There is profound confusion on campus right now around the distinctions among free speech, civil disobedience and lawlessness.[snip]Noise limits can protect the ability of students to study and sleep. Restricting the amount of time any one group can demonstrate on the limited open spaces on campus permits other groups to use the same space. If one group is permitted to occupy a quad indefinitely, for example, then that action by necessity excludes other organizations from the same ground. In that sense, indefinitely occupying a university quad isn’t simply a form of expression; it also functions as a form of exclusion. Put most simply, student groups should be able to take turns using public spaces, for an equal amount of time and during a roughly similar portion of the day.Civil disobedience is distinct from First Amendment-protected speech. It involves both breaking an unjust law and accepting the consequences. There is a long and honorable history of civil disobedience in the United States, but true civil disobedience ultimately honors and respects the rule of law. In a 1965 appearance on “Meet the Press,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described the principle perfectly: “When one breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust, he must do it openly, he must do it cheerfully, he must do it lovingly, he must do it civilly — not uncivilly — and he must do it with a willingness to accept the penalty.”But what we’re seeing on a number of campuses isn’t free expression, nor is it civil disobedience. It’s outright lawlessness. No matter the frustration of campus activists or their desire to be heard, true civil disobedience shouldn’t violate the rights of others. Indefinitely occupying a quad violates the rights of other speakers to use the same space. Relentless, loud protest violates the rights of students to sleep or study in peace. And when protests become truly threatening or intimidating, they can violate the civil rights of other students, especially if those students are targeted on the basis of their race, sex, color or national origin.
Count Me, on the Summer Treesby Anacreon (570-488 B.C.)translated by Thomas MooreCount me, on the summer trees,Every leaf that courts the breeze;Count me, on the foamy deep,Every wave that sinks to sleep;Then, when you have number'd theseBillowy tides and leafy trees,Count me all the flames I prove,All the gentle nymphs I love.First, of pure Athenian maidsSporting in their olive shades,You may reckon just a score,Nay, I'll grant you fifteen more.In the sweet Corinthian grove,Where the glowing wantons rove,Chains of beauties may be found,Chains, by which my heart is bound;There indeed are girls divine,Dangerous to a soul like mine!Many bloom in Lesbos' isle;Many in Ionia smile;Rhodes a pretty swarm can boast;Caria too contains a host.Sum these all--of brown and fairYou may count two thousand there!What, you gaze! I pray you, peace!More I'll find before I cease.Have I told you all my flames,'Mong the amorous Syrian dames?Have I number'd every one,Glowing under Egypt's sun?Or the nymphs, who blushing sweetDeck the shrine of Love in Crete;Where the God, with festal play,Holds eternal holiday?Still in clusters, still remainGade's warm, desiring train;Still there lies a myriad moreOn the sable India's shore;These, and many far remov'd,All are loving--all are lov'd!
“Tell me one thing, Peter. Will it make you desperately unhappy if I say No?”“Desperately?… My dear, I will not insult either you or myself with a word like that. I can only tell you that if you will marry me it will give me very great happiness.”They passed beneath the arch of the bridge and out into the pale fight once more.“Peter!”She stood still; and he stopped perforce and turned towards her. She laid both hands upon the fronts of his gown, looking into his face while she searched for the word that should carry her over the last difficult breach.It was he who found it for her. With a gesture of submission he bared his head and stood gravely, the square cap dangling in his hand.“Placetne, magistra?”“Placet.”
But of course, it is not simple, and this is what simple Latin is for.Whereas we use impersonal verb forms like “It’s raining” or “it’s hot” for boring things like the weather (while Germans, more correctly, say “it’s hot to me,”) Latin has a maddening habit of expressing opinions and even feelings with impersonal verbs like placet, “it pleases,” a verb which is always impersonal in form while talking about personal feelings. Peter and Harriet, who have been carrying on an extended conversation about the reconciliation of heart and mind through this entire book, find a Latin word to do the job for them.Magistra is “Mistress” in the sense of Master of Arts, respecting Harriet as a scholar and writer; it is also an honorific for “Lady,” subtly emphasizing her choice and agency in the matter.The -ne at the end of Peter’s question is the sweet part, and the most significant part, and the part that just cannot be translated. Remember that odd Latin word num used to prefix questions when you expect a “no” answer? -ne is its opposite number, a question which confidently expects the answer will be “yes.” That tiny shift from num to -ne sums up a five-year courtship in five letters.
Taq-e Bostan (‘Arch of the garden’) is the name of one of those enchanting places so loved by the Persians in which nature and Man worked together to create a ‘Paradise’. Laid out around a pool surrounded by large trees that provide refreshing shade, this site a few miles from… pic.twitter.com/7oRwrLXJ0T
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) March 11, 2024
“According to experts…”
— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) March 11, 2024
“Studies suggest…”
Not so fast. pic.twitter.com/iCaqFkfFWr
The Fall of Romeby W.H. Auden (1947) (for Cyril Connolly)The piers are pummelled by the waves;In a lonely field the rainLashes an abandoned train;Outlaws fill the mountain caves.Fantastic grow the evening gowns;Agents of the Fisc pursueAbsconding tax-defaulters throughThe sewers of provincial towns.Private rites of magic sendThe temple prostitutes to sleep;All the literati keepAn imaginary friend.Cerebrotonic Cato mayExtol the Ancient Disciplines,But the muscle-bound MarinesMutiny for food and pay.Caesar's double-bed is warmAs an unimportant clerkWrites I DO NOT LIKE MY WORKOn a pink official form.Unendowed with wealth or pity,Little birds with scarlet legs,Sitting on their speckled eggs,Eye each flu-infected city.Altogether elsewhere, vastHerds of reindeer move acrossMiles and miles of golden moss,Silently and very fast.
Amazing footage of a meteor exploding over the active volcano Mount Sakurajima in Japan. pic.twitter.com/7b9X3p9L8w
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) March 11, 2024
Ummm… pic.twitter.com/kc1MH4n5ZG
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) March 11, 2024
money is not the problem.
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) March 10, 2024
the US spends over $15k per student per year on public schooling.
the problem is that the system is unaccountable and rotten.
fund students, not systems. https://t.co/PviPX3o1qZ
My friend and former Chapman University colleague John Thrasher recently introduced me to the concept of pluralistic ignorance. This is a social science term describing situations in which individuals know their own thoughts and behaviors but assume most people are different, when in fact they aren’t. The classic example is college students who don’t drink that much themselves but assume their classmates are always getting drunk, when those others also drink moderately.
“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.”
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
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
Incredibly rare 'Firework Jellyfish' filmed 4,000 ft. underwater pic.twitter.com/xGx3aZf30l
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 10, 2024
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.
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
“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.
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
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
Giant Sturgeon fish in Canada pic.twitter.com/YI8PGiK3ur
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) March 10, 2024
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
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
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
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.
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
Perfection.......👌
— Mahatma Gandhi (Parody) (@GandhiAOC) March 10, 2024
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This is gonna be even more quotable than “after all this time?” “always.” pic.twitter.com/e2TD7fLeYz
— Hazel Appleyard (@HazelAppleyard_) March 11, 2024
"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
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
“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.
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
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
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
“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.”
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
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
Biomedical innovation is miraculous pic.twitter.com/YbBhD7hEXV
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) March 9, 2024
Mel Brooks is a comedic genius pic.twitter.com/EDZoxz1ifz
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) March 10, 2024
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
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