#Scientific

A long thread on the making of today’s face covering regulations and some reflections on coronavirus law-making in general. Consider this timeline: 13 July: Gov announces face masks are to
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Ive been deeply disappointed in Tweeple's response to CoVid-19. Q the govt by all means bt plz also think of solutions. We need fresh pairs of eyes on this problem.
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The origin of State-enforced marriage age is historically from two sources. The Church wanted to erode the power of clans, and manorialism, which wanted to delay the marriage age of
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Thread about “Stress”.There is a saying floating around..“Transphobia Rots Your Brain”.While this is meant as a observation of how people will assert & believe the most bizarre propositions due to
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How to get #verified.A thread/ I am not an expert by any means.But it took me 4 tries. Each time I adjusted something that I think got me closer.I thought
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The history of astrology and why it is haram in Islam, a thread:Astrology - the study of the movements and positions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars in the
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Last week Beth Fisher, a sports journalist made this extraordinary statement on the validity of the science behind World Rugby's proposal to make women's rugby single sex. Thread 1/
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1/ Are acute performance enhancements a result of post-activation potentiation (PAP)? Depends on your definition. "Classic" PAP has a muscle-based mechanism allowing optimum cross-bridge mechanics. In fast-twitch fibres it's n
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A thread on #SARSCoV2 mutations and what they might mean for the #COVID19 vaccination and immunity, in which I predict it will take the virus a few years to mutate
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1. Of the steps that govnt must take during #Covid19inSA, none is more urgent than offsetting the economic shocks for South Africa's most impoverished during lockdown. A thread on some
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Some "conspiracists" always get it right!Conspiracist, January 2020: "#RaTG13 virus looks like BtCoV/4991 described in an old paper that you didn't cite!" Average scientist, January 2020: Shi Zhengli, July 2020:
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I want to open a discussion about this post by Gelman (@StatModeling) and various aspects of RDD inference. Gelman criticizes a paper that shows a close-election victory effect of 2-10
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Vince Gironda's BREATH TRAINING1917 — 1997If there ever was an individual who defined the term, ‘OG’, it was Vince Gironda.Today we will look at how Vince incorporated breathe as a
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The green belt is NOT a protection for beautiful countryside it is an essentially arbitrary limit on development land supply - an urban growth boundary.And removing it doesn't end protection
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what’s gonna happen from the year 2025-2075? (a thread): disclaimer: the future is VERY uncertain. anything could change. this is just information gathered from scientific prediction and studies by experts,
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Some people rightly asked what I'd say instead of @ClimateBen's claimsThe following thread gives my one-tweet summary, then more detailsI'm sure my summary is not perfect, but IMO it
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