#Historical

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Here's what the electoral map would look like if votes were determined solely by population density, measured by the average number of people that live within a 5 mile radius

Steve Forden

mammuthus

Worth a read. The apparent (unless James is missing something obvious and I don't think he is) lack of calibration in some of the epidemiological modelling is very strange. I

Nemets

Peter_Nimitz

What will the human population of Earth be in 2100? How many nuclear weapons will be used between 2020-2100? Will there be a disease that kills more than 5% of

Jeff Spross

jeffspross

Sooner or later everyone (and I do mean everyone) is gonna have to realize that functioning pluralistic democracy requires learning how to get along peaceably with people who are fundamentally

Nick Norwitz

nicknorwitz

Public Apology Thread1/ A couple days ago I posted a tweet that I intended to be a commentary on the state of diabetes management in the US. What I didn’t

Naomi Wu 机械妖姬

RealSexyCyborg

There is an official narrative about what is going on with Africans in GZ.I am refusing to accept this narrative.This is not smart.I am doing this not just because I

Mr. Everywhere

youngoz1_

TL sleep? Bet. Let me hit y’all with some knowledge and historical facts. I know people THINK Alphas are mad because they lost elections previously. In reality, the numbers show

Dr. Keisha N. Blain

KeishaBlain

This. I despise the notion that tenure magically empowers folks to speak out. If you're a coward before tenure, you'll be even more of a coward after. #Academia https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1266727638535675911 The

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tskrishnan

That the Tamil influence in the south east Asia goes well before the Chola era, is established by various historical artefacts. One among them is this sculpture of Siva, found

A Better Cambridge

ABetterCambMA

4 Days until the vote on the AHO!In Cambridge, affordable housing looks a lot like other housing: many people would never even know they were a 100% affordable building! Often,

Peter Cayton, the Stats Guy

PJACaytonPhD

Scribbles on the DOH Situationer.http://bit.ly/BeatCOVID19PH 1) Infections have stopped declining. 2) a slow incline in the rate of death. 3) a high number of infections in Region VII haunts its previous

Molly McKew

MollyMcKew

Wars on history aren’t about winning history. They are about justifying & framing a current course of action, and sketching a vector — a direction — for the future.Understanding the

Dave Steele

LucidSpin

A short, personal thread on monuments: I am in favor of removing public monuments of traitors, particularly when those monuments are specifically intended to glorify the figure's treachery. If they're

Tara Ann Thieke

TaraAnnThieke

Trying to decide how paranoid to be about media/business manipulation of children and only coming up with "extremely" There are some people who are a little bit skeptical about, oh,

Laura Robinson

LauraRbnsn

One thing I've noticed as Ian and I have tried to expand our base for the New Testament Review podcast and now Youtube show is the extent to which fundamentalism

30 Year Old Student

30Student

#covidbrain threads series1. History of Summation1.0 IntroductionIt’s not very well taught in schools, at least in my experience, however, a knowledge of the history of mathematical concepts helps to better