#SCIENCE

Kyle Chayka

chaykak

A few people have laughed at this line in my essay about the origins of sensory deprivation: “Dolphins are floating all the time." I wanted to explain that more in

Robert McNees

mcnees

The physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and implications.Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer

vanessa beeley

VanessaBeeley

1. #COVID19 vaccines. Astra Zeneca version.(Operation warp speed)1. "Acceptable safety profile". Are you prepared to be injected with potential toxins, bearing in mind history of Vaccine mismanagement and risks? 2.

Chrisi

chrisiousity

Your periodic reminder that anti-semitism is the glue that holds the very tenuous worldview of extremists and bigots together, so whenever you see it you should be VERY worried. Let's

Aliza Luft

alizaluft

The key here, as I’ve argued elsewhere, is that violent (& dehumanizing) rhetoric doesn’t cause *just anybody* to act violently. It causes people who are already inclined towards violence to

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

Oh, as an addendum to my thread from yesterday, another Russian team, Dynamo Moscow, has failed to make the flight for tomorrow's league fixture. The entire team is quarantined, with

Stu Burguiere

StuDoesAmerica

A thread on this viral map, which attempts to paint a very scary picture: depending on where you live, it is almost certain someone at your Thanksgiving gathering will have

Dr Naomi Wolf

naomirwolf

1/WHY are bars, restaurants snd houses of worship being targeted? Not just for epidemiological reasons as the science for this is thin if rooms are ventilated, cleaned. But because people

Dr. Karin Wulf

kawulf

Agreed. But I'm not inclined to argue with it bc the #1776Commission is not/ does not intend to be in the same realm of information and knowledge as research historians.

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

OK. I may get slaughtered here, but there is a kind of pundit who doesn't know what he doesn't know. I'm not talking about ordinary people on @Twitter who shoot

Steve Magness

stevemagness

THREAD: When I was in high school I was a running phenom. Then I largely failed. Here are lessons for the driven that I wish I knew when I was

Rocky jamwal

jamwal_rocky

According to the #PadmaPurana; there are 8,400,000 life-form species, 900,000 of which are aquatic ones; 2,000,000 are trees and plants; 1,100,000 are small living species, insects and reptiles; 1,000,000 are

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

mRNA Coronavirus Vaccines This is an explanation about the science behind our mRNA vaccine. I KNOW it’s lengthy. I’m sorry I get carried away but I can’t help it!

Ian Tregillis

ITregillis

I've been sitting on this news since last summer, so I'm excited to finally share that @MidworldP is publishing a signed illustrated limited edition of BITTER SEEDS, the first volume

Vineet Tiruvadi

vineettiruvadi

1/ Did you know that #neuralimplants have been used to treat severe brain disorders for 50+ years now?! Maybe not new but definitely exciting! [1]A (timely) #firstthread on where we

Adam John Ritchie

adamjohnritchie

It takes experience to get to maximum yields. The first manufacturing sites to join the consortium started this process almost a year ago working with us to supply the UK.

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