#Experiments

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

In Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age, one of the near-future cultures is Neo-Victorian, and it is rooted in a mix of ironic-but-not-really theater and a self-aware embrace of hypocrisy as a

🐍🌵DawdleD'Viewer👀🇺🇸🌲

DawdleDeViewer

DBZ Kai Opening was nice when it was airing but as far as anime go... I really liked Fire Force's second opening. (Might as well make a thread out of

Kaal Chiron काल्किरण

Kal_Chiron

2-deoxy-D-glucose was first suggested by Patanjali (Ramdev Baba) as a possible therapy for mild/moderate COVID, if I remember correctly.DRDO did systematic trials on it & now DCGI has approved its

Ewan Birney

ewanbirney

A primer (journalists, part written for you) on false positives and why you should (a) know about them but (b) feel confident the system does the right thing for them

robwormald

robwormald

When I joined Google/Angular, we built a toy wx app to explore app shell, PWA, etc. Deployed a non-prod version somewhere.I will never, ever forget the feeling of that app

Preet

preet_s_k

1/n“Think about the fundamental levers and presumed truths about your business that are likely to change over the next 9-12 mo”Rather insightful Saturday afternoon listening to @anujrathi's thoughts on Building

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

You know that thing that companies do when you set up an online account, asking you to name your favorite food and your high-school mascot as a way to recover

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: WANG ZHENYI, 1768-1797. Born at a time when Neo-Confucianism, a conservative strain of social philosophy, was ascendant, Zhenyi (Wang is the family name) had a lot

Disabled Empowerment In Higher Ed Month #DEHEM

DisInHigherEd

This thread will be on universal design (UD) in the classroom. I'm not calling this UDL because that framing supposes that instructors are abled and only students have disabilities. Consideration

Barton

Barton_options

1/ Science is often nuanced. Let's look at the hydroxychloroqine paper today. We can spin the data both ways.https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1009/5872589 2/ First, HCQ-is-a-hoax camp: no significant reduction in

Ann Memmott PGC🌈

AnnMemmott

Autism and respect for our life story.I want to talk about this.So many autistic people are treated as laboratory experiments. Zoo exhibits. Providers of data about ourselves so that people

Dr Homeslice

8Homeslice8

#LongCOVIDJust an FYI for anyone who has been diagnosed with ME/CFS who has had COVID-19 and is thinking of donating convalescent plasma:People with ME/CFS are not allowed to donate blood

Lachlan Stuart 🌹🗽

Lachlan_Edi

@sally_hines rather pompously suggests shes saddened that I'm on the wrong side of history. Our history isn't written yet. Neither Sally nor I know how it will unfold. But I

Peter Campbell

peterbcampbell

Above and below: SS Great Britain, the legendary steamship built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, launched in 1845 and today a museum ship in Bristol. Brunel design an innovative ship- that

Bimal Desai

bimald

Beyond the unnecessary fixation on precise working hours and a particular lab regimen, many critics of @jjsabatini thread are looking past the salient consensus that good research training requires significantly

Wayward Dream 🌈

MashiaraDream

The Adventures of the Two Doctors It's a rest day today Shoe! "And then I reversed the polar(bear)ity and suddenly..." The world is upside down Is it Easter today?