#Reflection

A belated Christmas quiz question for you - what do puzzles, poker, and misinformation have in common? The answer is at the bottom of this thread.1/ Easier question first. In
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What's the actual difficulty with producing lots more of the Pfizer vaccine immediately? All the sources I can find say that it takes months to scale up to >1e8 doses,
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34 Lessons from Year 33Just turned 34. I treat birthdays as milestones for reflection. Each serves as an opportunity to integrate learnings from the past year.Here are 34 lessons from
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I have a very busy home life but the festive period has allowed a little time for reflection. Today I was thinking about my pathway into my job.This is the
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Medieval ideas about women and sex? On *my* TL??? It's more likely than you'd think!!! This is an almost perfect case study of internalised ideas about sex in women in
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BANBOO-3 times stinger than timber-has greater tensile strength than steel-flexible and resistant to cracks-strongly rootedBe like bamboo...A thread on resilience The good news: it is a skill that can be
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Well, that's a wrap on #NAOC2020!Congrats to @NAOCbirds and the organizing societies for putting on such an excellent #VirtualConference in such Unprecedented Times™!! Now that we've absorbed this research, time
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*** THREAD COMING ***What I Have Learned From the Intelligence Community, by Trying to Emulate Them 1) You can have your opinions, but allow them to form based upon available
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How Colorado "went blue" but sent reps like Lauren Boebert, Ken Buck and Doug Lamborn. A thread... Colorado is big — #8 in size — with 7 congressional districts:1) Denver metro
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1. Sitting overseas thousands of miles away from my beloved country right now, I’m a bit late with my thoughts on yesterday. It was certainly not America’s best foot forward.
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A lot of the clients I work with are often young adults & NEET. And when delving deeper into their past & how they've got to where they are this
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#BREAKING Canada has lost it's bid for a UN Security Council seat. Norway takes 130 votes. Ireland takes 128 votes. Canada came in at 108 votes. Didn't need to go
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I wrote an essay about what a net-zero target means for Canada. What problems will we have to overcome? What will be the biggest barriers? What ideas have promise? And
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New Years is a great time for gratitude, so here is a thread with some reflection on "free shit."Basically: if you're an adult human then you've received an ASTRONOMICAL amount
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Refining my argument about the central contradiction in the Matrix, reflected in the trans reading:In the film, virtuality is evil, but at the same time underlies all of its exciting
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It is said that the Ramayana forms the moral backbone of Indian society. But that theory doesn't hold up on many fronts. For example, Ravana has a better reputation among
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