#Experiments

Abraham Newman

ANewman_forward

Thread: Syllabus alert -- New paper w/@henryfarrell in @IntOrgJournal on how the liberal international information order is becoming self-undermining. Helps makes sense of stories like this.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/

Michelle Huang

michellehuang42

Thread: Can we now answer the age-old question of "free will" with neuroscience? Augustine first asked this question in the 4th centuryFast-forward now 1700+ years, we now have more

Frederik Lermyte

FLermyte

Thread: mRNA vaccines will not affect your fertility. A rumour was started recently, and it has people worried. Unlike most anti-vax nonsense, these guys actually wrote a petition to the

Gretchen McCulloch

GretchenAMcC

Zoom meetings and book clubs and coffee dates are fine. But unstructured Zoom parties are still so painfully awkward. Surely we can do better?I wrote for @WIRED about how to

slavehardt

slavehardt

A thread: @MzFee supervises punishment: "You will start with an initial 10 minutes in the position I described”. I was to kneel on a board of upturned bottle tops and

Laura Michet

lmichet

Been having a lot of thoughts lately about how the narrative work you end up doing in professional gamedev is very different from the stuff you’re encouraged to do during

Edward Ongweso Jr

bigblackjacobin

An absurd piece by Uber that merits a thread. The core argument here is to—like every Uber PR push over the past few weeks—conflate independent contractor status with flexibility &

Michael E. Smith

MichaelESmith

Rant: The “science problem” in archaeology. I am dismayed about the continuing low level of understanding of science among archaeologists. This was set off by reading Lars Fogelin’s nice open

Keshav

narulakeshav

Startups are extremely hard to build!I failed miserably when I launched my first company at 20. Now that I'm building a company again, I wanted to reflect on what company

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

1/ Here is official @CDCgov @CDCMMWR report out today They assessed various modifications incl:•wearing a cloth mask over a medical procedure mask (double masking)•knotting the ear loops of a medical

manu #BLM 🖖

trekonomics

The main misunderstanding about utopia is that it should be predictive – and therefore, that as a literary genre it should fall under the sprawling category of "science-fiction." Utopia is

Michael Eisen

mbeisen

There are good political/social reasons for wanting SARS-CoV-2 to have entered humans directly from animals, and many pushing the WIV lab accident hypothesis have nefarious intent. I am nonetheless surprised

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amelamtn

"Diplomatic Viruses" This documentary is the result of the work of @dgaytandzhieva & @AlMayadeenNews to uncover the secret Pentagon pathogen program which will be used to wage biological warfare &

theft perpetrated by deception

conorjh

Will a £30 strobe machine cause hallucinations? A short thread. In 1819 the great neuroanatomist Purkinje discovered that waving your fingers in front of your eyes while staring at the

Denis Rancourt

denisrancourt

BAM. Leading sources state the truth in Israel:Vaccination campaign is an unethical experiment on humans:"the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights is expected to announce that Pfizer is conducting unauthorized human

Shaan Puri

ShaanVP

The ancient struggle was not having enough.The modern struggle is having too much. Too much news, too much sugar, too much of everything at your fingertips..There's only 1 way out.

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