#SCIENCE

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autumnae

The other day I thought of making cordage from natural fibres. I picked some leaves from a bulb plant growing near my home (I yet don't know what species it

κιννάβαρι

cinnabarim

In today’s #thread, we will be talking about yellow pigments employed in the mural paintings of @pompeii_sites, according to Pliny’s descriptions and modern scientific analysis. In the last days, we

Pradheep J. Shanker

Neoavatara

The fact that any environmental groups are against either nuclear or carbon capture goes to show THEY DO NOT WANT TO SOLVE THE CARBON PROBLEM.Their interests lie elsewhere.And we shouldn't

barrysmyth

barrysmyth

Slovakia's drive to test its entire population over 2 weekends got off to a good start on Saturday with 2.5m tested and 1% positivity. Those 25k positives are now in

Sarah Tuttle, Princess of Quite A Lot

niais

I had some good talking with the kids yesterday as vaccines start to be on the scene. We talked about how they weren't approved for kids yet (sorry), that they

Chris Bataille

bataille_chris

New! "Net-zero deep decarbonization pathways in Latin America", our open access synthesis paper from our ESR special issue on the DDP-LAC project https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20300638, initiated &

Mudasir Nazar ☪

NashateSania

I can hear the nonsense buzzing of no-to-qurbani-this-eid around. In a bid to pose as thoughtful & intellectual, some guys end up sounding stupid.That Kashmiri-style-cooking-kills-the-virus science we were told by

freezingsheep

freezingsheep

THREAD. Yes the coronaboat has sailed and - in the words of failed projects everywhere - we are where we are. However, there are still good decisions and bad decisions

Brandon Woo

brandonmwoo

Exciting news: I’ve now fully replicated an originally in-lab finding with babies over Zoom (n = 48)! A brief thread on my adventures in online infant testing. 1/10 Before this

jennifer reed

libraryreeder

You are a rockstar, @AyannaPressley. I'm so appreciative of your solid and steady voice for those who don't always have a voice.Thank you for speaking up and speaking out. I

CARPET

WHS_Carpet

What’s the worst shopping centre in the UK? There’s one in Uxbridge that is fucking awful and one in Farnborough that defies science The Tricorn in Portsmouth was astoundinghttps://www.pinterest.co.uk/colwell0859/the-tricorn-portsmouth/

Jawwad Farid

rebootdude

1/ Really interesting questions yesterday in the @PMInstitute Karachi Chapter Reader club session on Reboot around wealth, success, starting up, first time founders, lessons learnt, regrets and advise to a

Peter White

mediumwhite

I held back from commenting overnight to chew it over, but I am still saddened by comments during a presentation I attended yesterday by Prof @trishgreenhalgh & @CIHR_IMHA.The topic was

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

After searching for decades, scientists have finally detected CNO neutrinos from the Sun. Yeah, this is a big deal.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/after-nearly-a-century-elusive-cno-neutrinos-are-finally-seen-from-the-sun 2/ The Sun’s energ

Daniela Jampel #keepNYCschoolsopen

daniela127

I am a registered Democrat. I have voted in every election (primary & general) since I turned 18. I have never once, not ever, voted for a Republican. I thought

WIRED

WIRED

When we finally get a coronavirus vaccine, who should get the first shot? Do we give it to the likeliest super-spreaders or do we give it to society’s most vulnerable?

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