#Complex

THREAD: On this weekend of #fathersday and #JUNETEENTH2020 I have thoughts about George Floyd's horrific lynching and #blackromance (something that people have also been discussing, that is a
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(Uh oh)? Hmm. Fixed it:"Ireland's heroic medical scientists propelled Ireland to being the 4th most tested country in the world*, having tested an incredible 5.3% of the entire population in
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To appreciate Bitcoin's potential you must first understand why societies converge on a single form of money.No essay argues this more convincingly than ‘Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money’ by @parkeralewis"All
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"2+2=5" AND DATA ANALYSIS AKA Why do I, a statistician, care about whether "2+2" can ever equal "5"? 1/ It was unfortunate that the statement "2+2=5" became the focus of
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How to upgrade your physique in 5 steps [THREAD]Step 1: EAT FOODS THAT YOU ENJOY Bin the tupperware. Bin the 2-hourly brown rice & chicken breast, Captain-Tupperware. Bin the keto/vegan/juice-cleanses.
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I've had this conversation dozens of times with white friends and colleagues. It is, I would argue, one of the major epistemological fault lines in our political culture today. tl;dr--structures/systems
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How Avatar: The Last Airbender was influenced by Asian cultures and religions: a thread In this thread I will show examples of how the creators of the series did a
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New paper shows that smoking cigs increases expression of the #SARSCoV2 receptor ACE2. The idea here is more ACE2, more infection, worse #COVID19.This is a faulty assumption.https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/rccm.202003-0693LE#.XqW1P4Cg3FM.
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We’ve captured some great learnings from #COVID19! Here researcher @PPristera, and public contributors @pips101, @Jegglecreate and @HomeUrs29, tell us about their experience with the REACT studies at @helixcentre @imperialcollegeI @Imperi
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In the UK we have 4 species of the araneophagic pirate spider Ero.Ero aphana, E.tuberculata, E.furcata and E.cambridgei. #Educate #TurnFear2Fascination and #LoveSpiders#Thread Pirate spiders are tiny at around 3mm,
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Hey seems like a good time to remind that a whole lot of things we do on a daily basis is illegal and heres a thread on why fan works
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Plenty of attacks on David Attenborough all in respectful terms, irritation that he dare not agree with one of the great modern facts, only capitalism matters not population. An old
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As if you needed another reason to vote. This is a historic constitutional crisis in the making—Trump’s Order Sets the Stage for Loyalty Tests for Thousands of Feds if he
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The problem I'm having with "health care is a human right" (tactically; I believe it) is that some people's humanity itself doesn't get recognized. "[Y]you start pretty much from scratch
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A few years ago I taught my Primary 7 classes about their place world in what they described as ‘The Best Game Ever!’I feel it could be of use to
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How do we form memories? That's a tough one. How do we study them? About equally as difficult.This 2014 letter in @nature takes an optogenetic approach to beginning to understand
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