#Technological

Steve Ricketts

SteveRickettsSP

A thread on a COVID tracing app for AB…Such a tool has shown, in places such as South Korea, to be an imp component in handling the pandemic. It needs

Arianna Rees

AriWRees

Remember the TV show Zoom? I got curious and did some investigation. Here's where all of these kids are now (with a few from other seasons thrown in). Zoe Costello.

Bill Hare

BillHareClimate

What do CCS, Scott Morrison #Insiders and Monty Python's "Dead Parrot” have in common? Is CCS just resting or is it dead? Or is CCS just pining for the Norwegian

Duncan Weldon

DuncanWeldon

Parker’s Military Revolution is a great read. Short and punchy (and with excellent pictures!) on European military innovation circa 1500-1800.Reading it for the first time in almost 20 years has

DJ Flo

folaeclipse

Here are 30 Master and PhD scholarships you can apply for in November. Postdoctoral fellowships are also included.This year can still deliver if you put in the required effort#Scholarships #AcademicTwitter

Indradeep Khan

IndradeepKhan

When an American quotes a Historical event, he quotes a dateWhen a Chinese quotes a Historical event, he places it within a DynastyAmericans have historyChinese have civilisationA Thread on how

Siqi Chen

blader

I worked for a startup called Powerset in 2007 that tried to build something like this. We spent $100M and it was bought by MSFT to become Bing in 2008.A

César A. Hidalgo

cesifoti

In 2014, the New York Times reported a story about Jannette Navarro, a mother of a 4-year-old working at a Starbucks. With only a few days notice, she would be

Jeff McFadden

homemadeguitars

Science is a way of knowing things.Technology is ways of doing things.Nothing about the indisputable knowledge of climate scientists gives them any advantage regarding selecting appropriate technology to solve the

My Babies WILL end you

LitrallyAJ

I see a lot of people saying it is elitist to ask for a next gen sims game that doesn't limit it's features for extremely date hardware. I want to

Greg Muttitt

FuelOnTheFire

With a week’s post-thesis holiday in Cornwall, I finally got round to reading Frank Snowden's Epidemics and Society. I found it absolutely gripping. A few things stand out for me

Paul Bohm

paulbohm

My notes on The Story of Civilization, Volume 1, Chapter 2: The Economic Elements of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant. In one sense the “savage” too is civilized: He

Tom London

TomLondon6

Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppressionBut in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy. People will come to

Daniele Pinna

PestoPoppa

These headlines convey the troubles with society's relationship to science these days. On one hand there are clearly strong interests to covertly censor and discredit factual data in an effort

6102

6102bitcoin

The FATF has published a report on "red flag indicators" relating to 'Virtual Assets". Pdf here:http://www.fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/documents/recommendations/Virtual-Assets-Red-Flag-Indicators.pdf From the report: Key ind

alexbo.land

interpretantion

1/ The debate over the philosophical implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems seem extremely misguided to me. They *are*, in my opinion, a proof that not all is mechanism, *but* it