#Formulation

Ben Zimmer

bgzimmer

In this weekend's @WSJ Review section: "hella" is a slang intensifier with roots in the East Bay (especially Oakland) going back for decades. Thread to follow, with more research findings!

Giorgos Kallis

g_kallis

Last year I published a book on Malthus and Limits. Let me explain what I argued, and how it is relevant to current debates where the name of Malthus and

Phil Booth

EinsteinsAttic

#WTAF? Has anyone confirmed this statement from @MattHancock?Where is the #ClinicalEvidence for such a deviation from protocol, not to mention trashing systems & processes the NHS has set up?@pfizer/@BioNTech_Group have

WYATT

_CEOofGenZ

Newcomers and veteran conspiracy theorists alike, here’s what you need to know. A rundown of what’s going on in our world., I’m gonna straight to the chase and skip the

Kostas on F.I.R.E. 🔥

itsKostasOnFIRE

Isaac Newton: A brilliant scientist, a terrible investorHow Issac Newton lost $4 million due to the first stock market bubble in history and insider trading/THREAD/ 1/ Sir Isaac Newton is

James Krellenstein

jbkrell

The @Dereklowe piece sort of misses the point. Yes, there is no idle mRNA vaccine production capacity in the pharma industry that could simply be repurposed to make more COVID-19

Senator Mike Barrett

BarrettSenate

Today the Conference Committee on Climate is pleased to issue its report, An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy. The bill: (1/29) Keeps our attention riveted on

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

The quokka is a meme animal that lives on Bald Island on the SW coast of Australia, where it has no natural predators. If you visit this island, it will

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

The McTague article in the Atlantic on UK state failure read to me more like an introduction to an article on UK state failure ['maybe the UK state has failed,

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Have been trying to stay out of the Sean Wilentz/Tom Cotton debate about the supposedly antislavery potential of the Constitution, but a ton of people have emailed me this week

Tom Bollyky

TomBollyky

6 months into #COVID19, our best measures of pandemic preparedness have not been correlated w/fewer deathsIn fact, nations w/higher JEE, GHSI, and #UHC scores have had *higher* death rates, even

Alejandro Piad Morffis

AlejandroPiad

This is a Twitter series on #FoundationsOfML. Today, I want to talk about another fundamental question: What makes a metric useful for Machine Learning?Let's take a look at some common

Shalabi Ibrahim 🇪🇬🇩🇿

Shalabi_Ibrahim

Comment la proposition de loi "Sécurité Globale" va restreindre nos libertés et pourquoi est-elle inutile ? Ce Thread n’a pas vocation à présenter la loi sous un aspect purement

Matt Elder

fiddlemath

Alright, @vgr, I'm down.1 like = 1 take about play; up to 100.https://twitter.com/diviacaroline/status/1207119068001636352 1. We refer to many apparently different activities as "play" -- play a game, play an instrument,

Tanei the Science Guy, PhD 👨🏾‍🔬

Dr_TJRicks

The early SARS remix vaccines are mRNA vaccines.These are pretty different from the normal vaccines that are used and mRNA vaccines are becoming the hot new kid on the block.Let's

Les paradis perdus

jeestunautre17

Thread/rant about the proposed coalition agreement between Piráti & STAN in the Czech Republic, the good, the bad and the ugly. The membership of Piráti will be voting on this

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