#Early

1/ This is fun. Last week @washingtonpost ran a big story on the $3 billion the US wasted, I mean invested, in 95,000 never-been-used ventilators (what’s $3,000,000,000 between friends?). Look
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When she inserted her ballot to scan, the place went nuts. We walked out to the street & all the folks in line for hours cheered her. A beautiful voting
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New blog post: Video Games are the Future of Education.Via chess, Feynman, proprioception, "deep understanding", and simulations :)https://nabeelqu.co/education  The only company I’m aware of that takes this insight serious
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1/My appraisal of the RECOVERY trial: This was a (very) positive study.How could chance or bias affect the validity of these results? What was missing?How should we apply these results?Let’s
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is an interesting doku. But the North Korean arms catalog (pic 1) looks like a version of , which is printed by a publisher in Moscow. On
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If you are a PhD student or tenure track prof struggling with rejection, PLEASE READ THIS. I wish I’d seen something like this when I was starting out. I think
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A thread on illness and medicine in ancient Babylon and Assyria, including herbal remedies, marijuana, liver readings and mischievous ghosts Like many early societies, the ancient Mesopotamians regarded most illness
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Howdy y'all, this is gonna be a post about someone who took advantage of me sexually at 15. They groomed me and they lured me into sexually roleplaying with them.
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‘Well done @lbbdcouncil. Complaints and concerns were raised by residents. Safety is of paramount concern. Covid is still with us, and enforcement have issued a temporary closure on QQ at
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The early days of @Twitter are a goldmine of lessons for founders & startup teams:In 2009 I left a partner-track role @ a prestigious VC for an ambiguous job at
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1) In rock and roll there was an unwritten rule: Never let them see all your tricks. Always keep more in reserve for next time.2) The DemoKKKrats, as I have
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Science is our exit strategy. Driving case numbers low buys us important time to develop, test, and deploy vaccines, but there are many other important reasons to slow transmission.A thread
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Pdogg: “Wow~~!! Bangtannies finally became No.1 on Hot 100~! They really writes the history of Korean pop music!! As a part of Big Hit’s music team, I’m so happy and
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Among other things, the Allen family has lately become very interested in fossils- (of which Cormac likes to remind us "Fossils tell us about earth's past!"). Here's Vera standing in
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Okay I feel like I want to talk about the note-quotes "queer content" in Wall Market in FF7R now that I've slept on it, plus I wanted to pitch this
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Putting the Old Nollywood vs New Nollywood preferences to the test. For the purpose of this poll, old Nollywood is pre-cinema/VCD era (90s - early 00s) and New Nollywood is
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