#Parallax

We know from the Stanford prison experiment and the work of Frank Barron, that humans desperately want to conform, even if it engages them in immoral behavior.Countless cartoons and other
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Want to get the family and kids into a few space activities? This week seems to be a great week for it! There's lots on that you can do from
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Anyone want to try an experiment? I just took this photo with an iPhone showing the moon, Jupiter and Saturn. If I can get some volunteers elsewhere in the world
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So, who’s up for borrowing a trick from @esagaia & measuring the distance to Venus tonight as it glides past the Pleiades? Challenging, but may be possible. More in the
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A useful term to have in your vocabulary, via Michael Anton: "Celebration Parallax" - a fact pattern is either true and glorious or false and scurrilous depending on who states
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So, Good Childhood Report 2020... what does it tell us? As ever, please indulge me with a lengthy thread!https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/good-childhood-report-2020# (1/15) The trends...Between 2009/10 & 2017/18 we see significant de
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I find increasingly that the division between Red and Blue America has a distinct linguistic quality; less in accent and more in rhetoric, labels, and framing. (1/7) I know conservatives
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So I’m reading this because I want to get a handle on what Flat Earthers actually believe. I didn’t get even a page into the guide before I found the
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I've taken a much closer look at this video now - I no longer think it's an edit. In looking frame-by-frame at the highest quality version I could find, there
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This study has been making the rounds a bit on ACL twitter.After a careful read, I'd like to give my thoughts.../thread Knee valgus is a common theme of debate among
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I'm working on a little interactive music thing tonight for the new train songs album, going to try to start & finish it this weekend. Thought I'd make a little
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If you're still using an epistemology (rationalist or otherwise) where if two statements or perspectives contradict each other then one must be false, then today's your lucky day to learn
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Took the time to take some screenshots from each episode, and here they are.Janeway's Hairstyles, Season One: A ThreadThese are in airing order, which may differ from production order.I'm no
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This is a thread of Some of the Great Ancient Astronomers of #India Hope you will like it.1)Lagadha (1400 bc):The writer of earliest astronomical text,Vedanga Jyotica,which provides details on several
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#THREAD "Fast forward three years after Unite the Right and it seems that everything that we had in 2017 and prior is gone." INCREDIBLY revealing fascist conversation on 8kun.It's also
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apropos an ongoing convo, a thread of the best looking NES/Famicom games 1) Super Mario Bros 3 2) Little Samson 3)Gimmick! 4)VICE: Project Doom/GUNDEC 5) Ninja Gaiden 3 6) Metal
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