#TextBooks

It's no accident #bitcoin rose from the ashes of the Great RecessionNecessity = the mother of invention after allThe money-printing happening today is kindling for a Grand ConflagrationIt's the
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"Supersymmetry" is a hypothetical symmetry that relates the two kinds of particles in our universe: bosons and fermions. There's no experimental evidence for it.But "superalgebra" is worth studying even if
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Your all-too infrequent reminder that #MMT has never argued for "printing money" the way you've all read about it in textbooks. Past experience suggests only those who already understand this
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He had a long life of skepticism, activism, and magic.#JamesRandi also bought my class a set of astronomy textbooks.We watched 2001 together, & he told me what his friend Arthur
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Why the current culture of the Japanese language learning community is so unnecessarily toxic and elitist, and why it needs to die: a thread It’s no secret that anime, manga,
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2020 has been a rough year. this week has been one of the harder ones. so here is a silly and lighthearted thread, in part inspired by that awesome "taylor
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My tips for conducting a #SystematicReview - a thread.1. Have a look whether any systematic review or #metaanalysis has been conducted on your topic before. If so, what (gaps) did
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ATHEISMThe atheist community proved to be the most toxic proponent of BLIND TRUST & UNCRITICAL ACCEPTANCE OF AUTHORITY in the name of science. There is not a single mental trap
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a thread of numbers: a thread my favorite number: 7 number of blankets on my bed: 2 number of assignments i have due this week: more than 5 another of
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Time for great white serial killer. Wait are they talking about white sharks killing sea otters? I wrote about this for @sciam https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-one-protected-species-kills-another-what-are-conservationists-to-
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In a recent review of The Next President, someone objected to the page that discusses America's first presidents because it includes the fact that most of them enslaved people. I'd
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ASTROLOGY & SPIRITUAL BOOKS: threadI’ll be updating this thread with all of the books I use/will be using/recommend! I love to read, even if it’s just to learn about a
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As far as I can tell, Bertrand Russell's "neutral monism" is just a logically-denatured, reheated misunderstanding of William James' "pure experience" (there's some Mach in there too but go with
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What I learnt on the Twitter this week:1. Kenney says the McDonalds he opened last year shouldn't be prevented from offering dine-in service just because a few 82-year-olds have the
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COLLEGE IS (WELL) ORGANIZED CRIME: A THREAD. I am in the interview process for a great job, at a big company with great benefits and that pays well. If I
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Since last couple of days I am observing lot of people fighting about being right and regrading being in dharma or morally right . And do not fight the way
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