#Inscrutable

Grace Segers

Grace_Segers

VIBE CHECK for the first 40 minutes of arguments from the president's attorneys on day four of the trial.Republicans seem very receptive to the president's lawyers, unsurprisingly. Democrats? Not so

Healthy Scepticism

healthy_scept

Thinking about early 20th c medical practitioners and their fascination with standardisation and how absolutely vital this was to medicine's success as an institution has produced some thoughts. in early

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

Doctors and researchers recognize that translational medicine (a branch of science that aims to take basic research and translate it into evidence-based medical practice) is important. We need a similar

Cindy McLaughlin

cindymclaughlin

Beyond protected lanes, some thoughts--from a small, sometimes-dressed-up, woman's perspective--about how buildings and cities and innovators can make regular bike riding easier and more likely. @bikenewyork, @TransAlt @NYC_DOTFrictions

Alex Dalassio

ADalassio

What is death?Arguably, the greatest mystery that humanity has ever tried to solve.As in all good stories, I shall start from...In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was

Karandeep Singh

kdpsinghlab

Proprietary prediction models are widely implemented in health care. Let’s talk about why they exist and if we can (or should) move away from them. Let's start with a poll.

MarinaS

marstrina

I'm glad the unredacted quote is doing the rounds, because it's a great illustration of the way accusations of lying about abuse (or using it to achieve unfair aims, which

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Humphrey Wakefield here expressing more scientifically illiterate genetic determinism. 1/x This view of hereditary genius flowing through families was expressed most clearly by Francis Galton, an undoubtedly great scientist, who

Tom Schmidt

tomhschmidt

1/ What is it about crypto that makes it so inscrutable to mainstream journalists? If you didn't believe in Gell-Mann Amnesia before working in the industry, you definitely should now.

artsyhonker/Kathryn

artsyhonker

A thing about economics that is currently biting us in the arse pretty hard is that resilience at extremes requires decisions that seem inefficient in normal circumstances. Examples: staffing levels,

Paul Carnahan

pacarnahan

What a lot of Brexiters there are!The third in our field guide to Twitter's lovely Leavers, beginning with:1/15 Ramblin' Ron: He's behind Nigel's march 100%. Let's see those lazy Remoaners

Jake Orthwein

JakeOrthwein

I've found myself bringing up Dan Sperber's "Guru Effect" paper a lot in conversation, so I figured I'd do a thread about it here. It gives a pretty compelling explanation

Justin Ling

Justin_Ling

This is such a yarn. This facility has been in the works since the Summer, and is still *months* away from being completed, let alone operational. The previous plan involved

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Absolutely fascinating Foreign Policy article about China, Xinjiang, and Uyghurs from May 2014!Before Obama's "pivot to Asia" got going, propaganda was still wall-to-wall "Muslim Terrorism", so people wrote about Chi

DHH

dhh

Machiavelli would be so proud of Apple. Trying to split the App Store opposition with conditional charity concessions, they – a $2T conglomerate – get to paint any developer making

Shipyard Willy ⚓️

ShipyardWilly

1 - An important component of conspiracy theories is how they influence, and are influenced by, the evaluation of potential evidence. Some individuals may be more open minded regarding certain

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