#Engineering

AlexL #TeamReality

FD2403

1/ The hit piece on @kylamb8 and @jhaskinscabrera by @MiamiHerald article by @NickNehamas was just so laughably bad that I had to write a thread. I mean, I don't even

Joe Kelly

joekelly100

The Winklevosses (@tyler & @cameron) are telling porkies about #Bitcoin .> @tyler: “I’ve yet to hear a convincing criticism that’s credible. If I hear an argument that’s convincing, I’ll let

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

Late last June, Google bought out "North," a tech company based in Waterloo, ON, which manufactured "Focals," a line of "smart glasses." A month later, the company is turning off

Carlos Lozada

CarlosLozadaWP

So I reviewed the Mary Trump book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/09/real-villain-mary-trumps-family-tell-all-isnt-donald-its-fred/But like with any review, there are things I didn't have space or time to discuss, stuff

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

1) It's kind of Steve Baker MP and the CRG to out themselves as those responsible for the current COVID death toll in the UK and the length of the

Mark Butler

NovaMarkButler

Concern or opposition to genetic engineering (GE) is often labeled as anti-scientific and ill-informed. Sure but there is also plenty of science to suggest we should be concerned about risk

Santhosh D'Souza

santhoshd

Himmler conceived the "Lebensborn" to increase Nordic/"Aryan" birthrate & produce a "pure" super-race. If you thought this fantasy was still-born in its Nazi cradle, you haven't heard of Garbhvigyan Anu

eripsa

eripsa

This anti-robot rights argument isn't very good, but there's a lot going on and it's hard to keep everything straight. Let's break down the main claims. I'll save my criticisms

ElliotOneT

ElliotOneT

I was born in a suburb of Detroit and been living as an a adult in Miami full time since '95. My wife and I put our roots down in

Dan Woynillowicz

DanWoy

The suggestion that BC should have a “chief climate officer”—akin to Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer—is an interesting one. But I’m not sure it entirely hits the mark.

John Chodera (he/him)

jchodera

I gave our annual State of the Lab address this week! I shamelessly borrowed the idea from Ken Dill--an incredibly clear communicator--who would annually dive into what we had done,

Philip Amies

AmiesPhilip

This is an important question, I supported sea eagle release in Norfolk a decade ago, good friends either did or did not, still think it is valid, but @NHarnser and

John Hayward

Doc_0

The Dem student loan forgiveness scheme would turn higher education into an even worse example of Chumponomics: a system that relies on chumps who pay full freight to subsidize those

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

1) Dreaded thread on why I think the response to postcritique is so vitriolic. Short version: Because literary studies is a discipline in search of an application. 2) Before I

Steven Boeynaems

BoeynaemsSteven

Super excited to share the new preprint from @LaskerKeren and me. TL/DR: We studied a bacterial protein droplet, found that material properties tune fitness, and we re-engineered this protein into

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