#Scales

Robert McNees

mcnees

The mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was born #OTD in 1792. He developed a non-Euclidean geometry that shows up in areas ranging from relativity to the designs of M.C. Escher.Portrait: Lev

Ryan Maue

RyanMaue

Ugh, this again. Every new year like clockwork, the same "daily" weather maps pop up to diagnose climate change & scare people. This is typically started by activists on

Hugo Amsellem

HugoAmsellem

0/ What *really* is a creator?As it became the way to define a new generation, I asked myself that question and came up with a definition:A creator isn't someone who

Michele Tizzoni

mtizzoni

We just posted a new preprint "Socioeconomic determinants of mobility responses during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italy: from provinces to neighbourhoods" https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.20232413v1 In this wo

Dr Harry Josephine Giles

HarryJosieGiles

I'm really struggling with this chapter of lockdown. The partial return to normality -- the expectation of a return to normality -- feels brutal and strange. I'm struggling with the

Denver Ncube⚪

denvern3

1. I have been following this thread and the arguments profered by different people. I guess it is a Zimbabwean thing to compare and trash other qualifications. Competition is good

mike

cleanroombro

A thread on structural color! In the video isopropyl alcohol is dropped on a wing from a Blue Morpho butterfly. But why does it change colors? Why is it even

「Beastands」| Watching: Nana

Carter___G

I caved... I want to say that I legit spent half an hour in the store on the Kenshin volumes themselvesWith everything that happened today and with Watsuki being who

andreamoro

andreamoro

A paper with @albertobisin: Learning Epidemiology by Doing: The Empirical Implications of a Spatial SIR Model with Behavioral Responses.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3625361 1/ How does geography affect the diffusion o

Jonny Morris

jonnymorris1973

Not sure we need anymore It’s A Wonderful Life discourse but I’ve seen a couple of professional critics in my timeline completely misunderstanding the point of the film so I

Oliver Geden

Oliver_Geden

"Unconventional Mitigation: Carbon Dioxide Removal as a New Approach in EU Climate Policy" - my new SWP Research Paper together with @FelixSchenuit https://bit.ly/SWP20RP08 A Thread on why a #ClimateNeutralEU is impossible

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Good morning! It's a warmer & less cold day in Hong Kong . I can sense that people are fed up with lockdowns, esp in the West. In HK, it's

Guillaume Verdon

quantumVerd

To understand the state of the quantum industry: imagine if there were 200+ companies trying to be @SpaceX the same year Sputnik made it to orbit, before @NASA even landed

Jelle Bruineberg

JBruineberg

Yes, good question @LitvakVladimir ! One of my motivations for writing the Markov Blanket paper was to warn students. The situation is quite simple: metaphysical conclusions require metaphysical premises. The

safia.

aifassafia

Consistency is the surest marker of success.I promise you fifteen minutes a day for fifty years weighs far more than five hours a day for five months.If you want to

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

The report reminds us that Western governments spent a ton of money and time tracking a largely-imagined Islamic terror threat as a much more dangerous white supremacist terror movement blossomed

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