#Whales

1/ Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon (Charles Slack)Thread with quotes"At the time of her death in 1916, Hetty Green was the wealthiest woman in America.
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What's an example of a significant resource that the world has actually run out of?Not a local, temperature shortage, or a resource that we gracefully transitioned away from, but like
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1/I'm finally getting around to sharing a short story about one of the craziest things I've done this year. On 17 December, I won the auction for 'In Titan's Light',
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TWITTER what are your fave "whoaaa" threads of all time? First that comes to mind is this one (scroll to top) in which spider scientists and astronomers WORK OUT that
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This morning I'm pondering some early influences on my thinking that I don't talk about so much: Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' and the later Wittgenstein, especially On Certainty. These
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10 choses qui se sont également passées en 2020 (et qui permettent de rééquilibrer positivement notre représentation mentale du monde ternie par une tendance naturelle au biais de négativité exacerbée
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As a lifelong environmental activist I am horrified that some young people say they may not have children because of climate change The truth is that *most* trends relating to
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There is no shortage of takes about what's going on with Gamestop (and other surging stocks), Robinhood and Reddit's r/wallstreetbets, many of them contradictory - at least on the face
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Paleoclimatology, is the study of Earth's ancient climates. Taking the extreme long view it becomes unsettlingly apparent that Earth's climate is "an angry beast," as Columbia climate scientist Wally Broecker
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Last week I started rereading the animorph books which I loved but never finished as a kid. I'm already on book 3 as they as so easy to read, but
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Behold! Our latest @biorxivpreprint #preprint in which we explore if duplication of #TumorSuppressors helped #elephantscrush their risk of #cancer as they evolved large body sizes #PetosParadox #EvMed #EleFunFactFriday #TheMoreYouKnow https
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Homo is the genus that all humans belong to. It began 2.3 million years ago and evolved from the genus australopithecus. Australopithecus possessed two of three duplicated genes derived from SRGAP2 roughly 3.4
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Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 1/ Though "bean counters" are employed
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I love finding unusual wildlife facts, so instead of having random tweets scattered I thought I’ll conveniently bundle them all here: https://twitter.com/rxmchls/status/1251608645068087301?s=21 https://twitter.com/rxmchls/status/125160864
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Has there been any good news this year? Glad you asked. Amazing as it may seem, 2020 had big wins for conservation, living standards, peace, safety and human rights, clean
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when i was a movie theatre projectionist, the other projectionist, Matt, would bring clam chowder for lunch every single day, refusing to put it in the fridge even though the
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