Insects appear to be pretty robust during mass extinctions (much less vulnerable to low CO2 than marine animals, small body mass so don’t need large amounts of food etc) so if they are in trouble we are really in the shit.
One of the most heartbreaking wildlife data visualizations I’ve ever made - this video shows the catastrophic decline of western monarch butterflies since 1997.
https://t.co/72B9WpjRsJ
The most important and personal story I've ever documented, and the one I most wish I never had to. The first photo I ever took of my daughter, and the last via @reuterspictureshttps://t.co/AsP20ZkXZL
Very interesting thread, challenges my preconceptions on the JNJ hold (I thought it was unjustified) using fairly persuasive empirical argument. https://t.co/Ffwhh3fAI1
Yesterday I said the J&J vaccine is Game Over for women 18-50, with 6 cases in 1.4 million vaccinated in that age group (~1/200k), here is why I say that....
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Opening share price for Coinbase consistent with the working assumption in @rob_cyran ’s view here … perhaps another example of the (relatively) realistic discovery of a market price via a direct listing? https://t.co/ioLgHrS2mw
This incredibly disturbing fake wikipedia page about the historic first guy to have his consciousness uploaded to a computer should win a Hugo award: https://t.co/2k56XK7cmR from @qntm:
I can understand the decision, but I think it's overweighting an uncertain rare risk vs the deaths/disability that will certainly occur in the still unvaccinated.
Passenger planes took off without enough engine thrust because a computer program automatically assumed that any passenger using the title "Miss" was a child rather than an adult
https://t.co/bJ0wGr63gY
“It is the punishment of the South that its Robert Lees and Jefferson Davises will always be tall, handsome and well-born. That their courage will be physical and not moral. https://t.co/eq0UiFC1Hs
On this day in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox effectively ending the American Civil War. https://t.co/CyZbVAxqnb