“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It
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Done!
“Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.”
Just because someone is yelling things at scientists, or angry at the results science yields, doesn’t mean there is a scientific debate. Life evolves and shares a common ancestor. Climate change is caused by humans. Masks work. Apples don’t fall up. Vaccines are safe and effective. Eppur si muove.
My most Luddite opinion is restaurants should always have physical menus.
After so many serious discussions about this paradox with physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers, I can’t help but find this cartoon absolutely hilarious.
It’s incoherent to say that ‘walking’ is innate, I think. Locomotion emerges in real time under constraints from perception and action systems and environmental affordances. ‘Walking’ is the wrong sort of thing to possibly be innate i suspect 🤔
Hello Keith. Please count me in!
My latest story is up! The components required for DNA and RNA are all present on asteroid Ryugu, which lends strong support to the hypothesis that the raw ingredients for life were present before the Sun even formed. A very fun and fascinating tale!
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Walter Lippmann understood the importance of coarse-graining and effective theories in politics.
An important difference between physics and politics is that in physics, Nature suggests natural ways to coarse-grain; in politics, we invent them, and we don't always do a great job.
Now that I have finally been paid I made a video about the Dana-Farber legal case from my own perspective: youtu.be/ioRtnMEV46Y
“Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.”
Masterful piece. Read it!!
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
And he is of course right, because it cannot be any other way
Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.
She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.
Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."
It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.
Earthquake prediction isn't possible.
We've looked at whatever potential relationship between earthquakes and other event you'd care to propose and there's no statistical relationship.
Nope, not really. A lot of really, really good geologists, physicists, statisticians, and computer scientists have looked at this, for a very long time.
Even with "neural networks."
Hola
Hace tiempo que quería contarles que ya publiqué mi primer libro de "Fundamentos de Electromagnetismo". Ha sido una experiencia muy interesante y enriquecedora.
Les dejo el vínculo por si conocen gente interesada en este tema
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The Jetsons lied to us
Outdoor staircase designed as a stack of oversized book spines at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, each step painted to resemble classic literary works including The Republic by Plato, The Divine Comedy by Dante, The Prince by Machiavelli, Faust by Goethe, and Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant. The colorful stairway is set in a landscaped garden with greenery and flowers on both sides, creating the illusion of walking up a tower of world literature.
Stairs of Knowledge at the University of Balamand, Lebanon.
Walking up these stairs is literally a step toward higher education.
A Tribute To Modern Day Thinkers (10 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/01/09/a...
This is an unusual form of seamless tiling where all edges are continuous but using mirror reflection jumps,
(Saughton rose garden, Edinburgh)
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy.
Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
I for one welcome our new evil ant overlords.
The final arguments against EVs (vs fossil fuel vehicles) are evaporating before our eyes
Este viernes en el Campus Ciudad Universitaria de la @USanSebastian nos reunimos a celebrar el futuro de los adultos con síndrome de Down y a imaginarlo juntos. Filosofía, neurociencia y un panel de experiencias vividas.
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