#Review

*Everything* in psychology has a cognitive dissonance angle. Like, I'm reading up on Reactance right now, where we humans will lose our shit if we think a freedom is being
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As I've been talking a lot about the hangups in captioning on YouTube lately, it's deeply unfortunate that they've decided to drop this (flawed) feature rather than improving it.https://twitter.com/LiamODellUK/status/12888697669
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Like Lord Denning said about springtime and young men whose thoughts naturally turn to cricket or whatever, it's 5 am on a Sunday morning, so my thoughts naturally turn to
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1/Dr.Thakur, this is a huge issue. Big industry. Powerful lobby. They crush critique wit money power. I hav experienced it first hand. Here is my story. Last year March, I
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Over the last few years I’ve found it helpful to keep a list of ideas I’d like to turn into reality. I don’t tend to share it with anyone, but
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The reviews of the new biography of Stan Lee ("True Believer") are all premised with the same hook: Stan Lee didn't actually create the Marvel universe. To which every comic
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Just saying..once again, I will support an El Rufai Presidency Campaign. We need a Shock to the system, and I am pretty sure he is capable of doing that. We
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Good morning fellow info war conscripts. Are you a lawyer? Volunteer for the review and recount efforts.Are you a graphic artist? Meme up "stop the steal"Are you an influencer? Create
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~300 papers over the past 10 years, concentrated in subfields of medicine, archaeology, and animal bio, use (and in some cases entirely rest on) a method called "between-groups PCA" which
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New SPAC (Thread) Payoneer $FTOC - Global payments service providerSomewhat comparable to:• Paypal $PYPL• Square $SQProcessed $44B in payments '20• expect $434M in 2021 revenue - Deals with 9/20
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1/9 My response to the announcement today that @10DowningStreet has appointed 16 new peers to the @UKHouseofLords:My fundamental concern is about the number of new peers that have been appointed
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THE PURPOSE OF ARTS' STUDYThread: my initial reflections on the "purpose" and "value" of arts' / humanities study, review, critique and all associated endeavours. I'll start with value of the
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Despite the pandemic, 2020 was a wildly productive year for me academically. A big reason is I took the advice of my mentor, @_MiguelHernan, and as a postdoc & junior
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Some thoughts on the intelligence community, where I spent a decade, and its role in understanding the national security implications of climate change. Today, President Biden will reportedly direct the
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Reading @RobinNiblett's wide-ranging @ChathamHouse think-piece on Global Britain (https://bit.ly/3szSi27 ). Quite right to start with global context & then focus on UK comp. adv. as a 'full service' mid-range power, wit
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Hmmmmm I decided to go *full weird* in the books newsletter this week & 2 ppl have already unsubscribed lol1. We begin with the emergence of a terrifying & ancient
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