#Phenomena

Daniel Green

nu_phases

1/N In honor of the recent 80th anniversary of the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Nov 7, 1940), a thread on why it fellThe TNB was a giant wind

Sulka Haro

sulka

I think Clarke's Third Law, ”Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” has emerged in full force during the last 10 years and its having a profound effect on

Imogene Cancellare

biologistimo

In case anyone asks, the *only* reason male cats have spines on the glans penis is to induce ovulation in females during copulation. Like many mammals, cats go into "heat",

Julia Rohrer

dingding_peng

This is a great paper making a lot of good points! I do wonder, even for the positive examples brought up: First, aren't we trying to build airplanes when we

Sir Smidges-Alot 🇺🇸🇭🇺 (space guy)

SirGroypsAlotIV

For Week 3 of #CozySpaceFactofTheWeek I bring you the strange case of “Hoag’s Object”. A mystery that stares right at us! This galaxy, some 600M+ Light Years away is extremely

aly

fairfain

I'm doing research for my research paper and I thought that this quote is especially pertinent in today's environment surrounding mcyttwt:"At any point the performer may choose to reject or

Folk Horror Magpie

folkhorrormagpi

I've never quite been the same since I learned about trovants. These are rocks, actual rocks, that not only 'grow' but MULTIPLY. The most famous example can be found in

Eric Jonas

stochastician

How would I improve American scientific output for $100B? A thread. 1/n First, we already have a lot of processes that seem to work incredibly well, and processes really matter!

Tyler Shipley

le_shipster

Every criticism of “cancel culture” fails to recognize that people don’t actually get cancelled. If it’s “too easy just to cancel” then why did a kid who racially bullied a

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

harry 🏳️‍🌈

hdgarrood

Might fuck around and have some Reckons about monad pedagogy and arguing about it on twitter I feel like something we could do well to remember is that the well

Kiennefarious 😈💖

KiennaS

I might be opening a can of worms here, but I've had a bunch of people I care about hurt recently by what I'm about to talk about so:People with

Terence Hannum

TerenceHannum

Here we go, shoot for a horror movie a day.Day 1: The House on Haunted Hill (1959)#31DaysOfHorror Day 2: Day of the DeadI grew up in Florida and love seeing

Waqar kharal

waqarkharal

Back in 2017, I was ASP (UT) in Mardan when Mashal khan was brutally lynched in Abdul Wali khan University Mardan. I interrogated all the arrested accused including Imran who

TILEmergencyPharmacist

TILEDPharmD

TIL: a mini on one of my FAVORITE s used in the ...KETAMINE! Ketamine is an NMDA antagonist that can be used for pediatric sedation. Ketamine produces a dissociative

Mark Rickerby

maetl

This culture shift will never stop doing my head in.https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1273343527011799041 In terms of history of ideas, there is a through line which relates directly to the origins of how marketing