#Experiments

If you're confused by tweets about Goblinization, it's an event in the lore of Shadowrun, a long-running sci-fi fantasy TRPG, in which 10% of the world's population spontaneously mutates into
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Thanks! I haven’t studied specific landers and I wouldn’t comment on specific companies’ landers without their permission. I am (so far) studying a simple, generic case with one engine mounted
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This is important: @cdcgov came out with a report in 2018 that showed that 54% of Americans who died by suicide between 1999-2016 did not have a known mental health
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Would Rothbard be rolling in his grave over my book chapter? I've thought about this quite a bit, including the meta questions of to what extent this warrants thinking (caring)
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Market research firm @nielsen annually publishes case studies on breakthrough consumer retail goods that achieved >$50million in sales in 1st year.I read their 2016 report (which is awesome), and here
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Business lessons by @JeffBezos from 1990-2002 Studying great entrepreneurs is a good way to optimize for your own success as a founder.Spent the weekend watching Jeff's old videos and lectures.Here
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today I'm gonna post about Operation Paperclip, the concept and book, or as I call it, "damn why do we keep getting blowback all the time?", as well as a
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Asoka founded the most powerful secret society on earth: that of the Nine Unknown Men. It is still thought that the great men responsible fro the destiny of modern India,
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Today’s #ClassicalZooarchaeology thread is about my shit-hot database (!!!)It’s designed in MS Access & uses touch-screen, speech-recognition, and an internal GISIf you can’t do field/lab work this summer, maybe it’ll
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Do I hear you asking: "Are working memories maintained in persistent activity or as ‘activity-silent’ codes?"Thread! (1/20) Until the 1950’s, neurobiologists often denied that neuronal mechanisms of working memory could
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Oxford student Zaman Keinath-Esmail initiates defamatory letter demanding removal of feminist professors Selina Todd & Senia Paseta, signed by 500 students and alumni. The modern-day witch hunt continues.https://www.oxfordstudent.com/20
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Wild first year at Insider for me. I’ve steered experiments like Mark Bowden’s narrative re-telling of the Mueller report: https://www.insider.com/mueller-report-rewritten-trump-russia-mark-bowden-archer-2019-7 + @ev_rat's heart-breaking story on
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Good morning and welcome to Day 2 of HDBuzz coverage of the CHDI HD Therapeutics conference! #HDTC2022 Chairing the third session of HD research talks is Dr. Michael Finley (CHDI)
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1/Thread on objections to face coverings for the general public. See this tweet for a longer lay summary.https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1249743825637199875?s=20 [Mute thread if you’ve had enough on this topic.] 2/Also draws on
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Whitley Strieber, whatever your opinion of his encounters or his work, I wonder how many have heard this element of his story.A thread. In 1986, Strieber had an 'abduction' experience
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2021 reading wrap ups JANUARY- 22 books (favourite to least favourite)- the archive of alternate endings: 5 - the seep: 5 - luckenbooth: 5 - cat person and other
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