#Stratification

In 1989, a researcher named D. F. Chambliss published a paper called "The Mundanity of Excellence."After studying swimmers for three years, he found that three factors separated top-performing swimmers from

Dr Steven Senior

The year is 2043. All products and services in the UK are provided on prescription through the NHS. No-one remembers that GPs used to do medicine. Instead, they have become

cableknitjumper

In Animal Crossing there are hamster villagers and also a smaller caged hamster you can buy and place in your home, implying the existence of hamster class stratification, exploitation, struggle,

1/ For my UK tweeps this AM, I want to walk everyone through the Canadian* system of university admissions, just to show you how low-stakes this process can actually be.*most

reading chinese marxists is shattering a lot of my paternalistic western notions about chinese politics honestly. seeing well-respected, well-connected chinese marxists speak so frankly about issues we in the west

1/ Ok, by special request and as briefly as I can: stratification of higher education in Canada. At the basic level: you have a 4-year (university) vs. 2-3 year (college)

Lauren Westafer, DO MPH MS

in EM we love clinical decision tools, risk stratification tools. HEART, Canadian (___), Wells, PERC, Ottawa (__)...but, what do we really know about them? a short thread from the talk

People_of_Space: Julie

People_Of_Space

I promised some cryo theory and tank stratification/destratification!I will focus on O2.Here is an official NASA document for you hardcore thermodynamics fans, but I’ll try to explain it more simply.This

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

This morning, I want to make the Case for why Economics is arguably the dopest discipline EVER.It boils down to one thing: Economists are the most versatile (social) scientists we

This piece by on a school segregation court case for Newark by @patrick_wall is incredibly thorough and does a great job laying out the dimensions of the debate around urban

lil uzi veritas

it’s honestly wild how many students or academics of color I personally know of who were interested in education but deterred from studying it, sometimes by programs specifically meant to

Soren Spicknall

Deeply suspicious that the current residential property investing fad among high-salary young people is going to produce a bunch of little slumlords. The formula being: buy a cheap property in

La bonne nouvelle du jour vient d’une étude publiée aujourd’hui dans @NatureClimate et réalisée notamment par @MichaelEMann.Elle concerne les océans. Ceux-ci se stabilisent, et plus vite que prévu.En fait, ce

anotherglassbox

I am growing concerned that not all of us use the word urbanist/urbanism in the same way. We've invented a term that effectively means "city fetishist" while not coming to

1\ I'm glad Colm is speaking out about lockdowns, but I'd like to make a somewhat pedantic point about civil libertiesThe problem is that different people realize lockdowns are terrible

Pallando the Blue

As I told you at the end of my Potrimpo thread, I would examine the idea of the divine triad. The concept of the "divine triad" is closely associated with