#Humans

If you liked the ideas in @frankrtavares' white paper on ethical space exploration (contributed to by the amazing @eleniravanis) here is the beginning of a critical space thread with some
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After watching Leela chess zero evaluate boards, I'm realizing that #AI has a lot to teach us, if only we'd be humble enough to listen. So I'm watching this game
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The swab test for covid-19 is a vaccine in disguiseThis is how they vaccinate cattle through the nose:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWz6N5BPO9w And this is how they vaccinate people through the nose:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jVNeSn
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Sometimes it makes sense to believe "Hyperreal Falsehoods" - falsehoods that are more true than the truth. How can a falsehood be more true than the truth? How can it
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7 ways you are murdering money without realizing it and how you can Stop it.Thread// For every minute that passes, millions of dollars are on the move.From one account to
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Yearly cursed/nightmarish science articles thread. Will include articles from past years for completeness since old threads have been lost. (04/25/2017) An artificial womb successfully grew baby sheep — and humans
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THREADDENIALISM—PART II: DEFEATING THE DISEASEAs we come closer and closer to descending into an authoritarian abyss, we must—emergently—regain focus on the mission at hand.1/ But as I described in Part
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Truth. Is it somewhere in the middle? It’s a common argument used on these Twitter streets: somewhere between CNN & Fox & OAN & BBC & China News Agency lies
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Suddenly I can no longer blame Roswaal for falling for someone as stretchy as Dona if this how she greets people she's only met for literally 15 secs And now
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Hey folks, let's talk about three traps we fall into with metrics.(Before we begin, let me remind you, this is just comfort food:Stay safe.Stay strong.Stay kind.Stay angry.Black lives matter.) In
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Okay I need to talk about something I’ve observed here when we disagree on things. I don’t think people are going to like hearing it, but it makes me really
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It’s a weekend, and I’m actually on holidays until August 17th, but I’m going to do a thread on the water disconnections in Nairobi RCT on Monday. I’ve already explained
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1/Leslie Wexner sold the Iraq War in much the same way he waged 'War on Women'.Wexner, the man who created Jeffrey Epstein, has been named as being one of the
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This November, as we also celebrate International Children's Day and the Philippines’ National Month for Children, we explore the vast & educational folklore about children & young people known in
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Humans are unique in our ability to learn from one another. But did evolution hard-wire imitation into our genes or do we learn from others how to learn from others?
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Quick note - a shitload of the behaviors I ascribe to #adhd are, as people will point out, common human behaviors.And... Yeah. We're humans. That's (one of the) point(s).It's not
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