#SMART

Alex and Books 📚

AlexAndBooks_

How a single book changed @NASA astronaut Scott Kelly's life forever(thread) [Source: @tferriss podcast with @StationCDRKelly] Scott Kelly is known for spending an entire year in space, but he's actually

Jonas Simanavicius

JSimanavicius

1/ A lot of people are asking: why did you Pre-Launch the $NOIA Network. Why not just go to full launch right now? That would have been possible, but pre-launching

alice maz

alicemazzy

"reads a lot of wikipedia" is probably rightly a good proxy for "smart curious generalist" but being now having to actually learn a scientific discipline enough to follow current research

BobbyPiton

BobbyPiton3

A few years ago I was asked to speak at a Quant Conference in Chicago. It was an interesting experience as there were 200-300 plus people but a very skewed

Dangbana Orisa Skrrr

Adheydayor

With talks on the need for local value chains due to COVID-19 disrupting global supply chains and rising protectionism, is there any study of the impact on global food prices

QE

hmsqe

A thread on the Royal Navy’s options for hard-kill Ballistic Missile Defence and the Type 45 Destroyer: The requirement for ship-based hard kill defences against ballistic missiles has grown significantly

Centrist Stacy

CentristStacy

Something I think about a lot is the fact that the whole Karen phenomenon happened basically right after a supposed societal reckoning about misogyny and "believing women." 2020 gave us

Kyle Shideler

ShidelerK

Connor Betts of Dayton, Ohio participated in armed antifa rallies and later killed 9 people. Now arguably his attack was not motivated by politics. But their right wing number always

Zaya C Bulag

Zaya_CB

Time for an update on Huawei’s “Smart Cities” program in Ulaanbaatar (UB), Mongolia. I have a thread on this in Mongolian, so I thought I'd make one in English.THREAD (with

जानकी🌲🌌

kaivalya_

There’s some truth to this; a majority of girls I know start off in STEM and then switch to a major in the humanities. It’s not that they aren’t smart

Chelsea O'Brien

ChelseaMDO1

Just because you work (or learned within) a system doesn't mean you understand how it works. The higher ed jobs crisis is significantly more complicated than "administrators" cutting your budgets

Monoocularcat

monoocularcat

Look, The Boys is fucked up. Think of a trigger it is probably in there and that's on purpose because they're also in real life. The Boys is what superheroes

Steve Hauck 🚀🛰🌔

hauck

My mentor, role model, and friend Roger J. Phillips passed away yesterday. Roger was a gentle giant of planetary geophysics who took great joy in working through the mysteries of

Ani Sangye 💛⚖💛

SangyeH

When all is said and done, what worries me most is how many otherwise informed and intelligent people dismissed Trump's totalitarianism & considered him as merely a crazy idiot. There

Eric Weinstein

EricRWeinstein

Note the totally regular pattern. Our authorities synonymize the Wuhan Lab origin with a synthetically engineered virus and deny this.Yet, the idea of lab accelerated natural selection is *never* engaged.

Jake Wood

JakeWoodTR

Want to know how broken health insurance is? I have a Platinum PPO from a major carrier - literally the most Gucci plan imaginable. Got a bill from the hospital

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