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Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EVELYN BOYD GRANVILLE, born 1924. Dr. Granville was the second black woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Born in 1924, she grew up during

Josh Hochschild

JoshHochschild

Fellow book-lovers and readers, have you noticed respectable presses issuing "hardcovers" with:* bindings glued not sewn* low-resolution digital printing* grey (not black) print* subpar paper?Charging full hardcover price for cheap

Lucille E. "Luce" Nguyen

NguyenLuce

This map from the NYT is going around in a lot of memes/commentary on this website.It represents individual donors to Presidential campaigns, not anything else. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.ht

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

The @CDCgov recommendations to institutions of higher education are a mess. While some universities are struggling with how often to test, we get this zinger from CDC: "CDC does not

Nathan Hammond 張拿敦

nathanhammond

Today I'm going to try combining two things I often tweet about: tech and Cantonese. So, let's talk about parsing.I'm currently studying Cantonese at #CUHK in #HongKong. In English I

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

Last night, @JoeBiden expressed concern over the potential cost of Medicare for All & the security of people’s health plans. I recognize these arguments because I helped craft them when

Stephanie M. Lee

stephaniemlee

SCOOP: John Ioannidis's studies say COVID isn’t a big threat, infuriating critics who say they have fundamental errors.In March, before he had any data, he rounded up a group of

laura not lauren

mslauramac

i think i’m going to write a dissertation on the downward spiral of gilmore girls like i’m watching a season 1 episode and luke and lorelei’s chemistry is agdjl8282&&/‘nansj??? and

Sean Beaudoin

seanbeaudoin

THREAD 1 of 101/ Oh, like the reality of the virus, where it came from, where China is, the link between vaccines and autism, the way in which the stock

Delger Erdenesanaa

_e_delger

For my environmentalists - we should obviously be against racism in general. We should ALSO confront the racism inherent in climate change and environment issues (and yes, within our work

Quanta Magazine

QuantaMagazine

The Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics has long served as a place for mathematicians to gather and collaborate. Senior writer @KSHartnett visited Olberwolfach in the last days before such in-person

Timothy Sandefur

TimothySandefur

It is. Now let’s do Cass Sunstein, who’s made a career out of arguing that our right to express our opinions is a resource the govt should confiscate & redistribute

Stop Funding Fake News

SFFakeNews

1/ When it comes to vaccines, lies cost lives. @GoogleAds is paying vaccine misinformation sites, like Waking Times, to show these brands’ advertisements.Until Google does the right thing, we’re calling

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The quest to bring antitrust law to bear against tech companies is finally paying off, but it's been a long, hard slog. At the vanguard have been two legal scholars:

Dígame Concejal

RSGAT

This week, all of America is Farhad Manjoo - carefully assessing the risk of infection of a family Thanksgiving, determining the risk is not worth it, then going ahead anyway.

Dr. Claudia William MD, MScHAL 🩺💊

DrCSWilliam

When I was a med student all the older docs were like “we r quitting when electronic medical records were introducedHospital admins told everyone that they were old, cranky &