The Sikh Turban
— Jamal Jafri (@JAJafri) December 30, 2019
"...looking at artwork & photography throughout Sikh history to show how although the symbolism & strength behind the Sikh turban have remained strong, the specific style in which it’s expressed has evolved quite a good bit."
By @JungNihanghttps://t.co/HLp6mWGUvM
New study highlights the advantages to health of closing coal fired power plants: as emissions of things like SO2 dropped, health costs also dropped by 20%.
— AukeHoekstra (@AukeHoekstra) December 31, 2019
Agriculture is now becoming a relatively large problem with costs to society exceeding benefits.https://t.co/ZiQktBz2GL
Finally out—If interested in outcrops of submarine landslides aka MTDs here some work with @TheMountainPig @brandondugan @ZaneJobe @NZSeds We couldn’t afford to make it OA but will be happy to email preprint if you have no access to @sedimentology https://t.co/FHSYdhsbVj pic.twitter.com/HpMjytL9WH
— Sebastian Cardona (@petrocardona) December 30, 2019
This is an interesting way that Bajaj Finance used to grow cons durable loans - later copied by banks which got rapped on the knuckles by RBI. Thread. https://t.co/nGWnkHJ246
— Deepak Shenoy (@deepakshenoy) December 31, 2019
FWIW: The least covered Indian missile system of 2019 was the nuclear-capable intercontinental-range ballistic missile Agni-V. Agni-V was expected to be inducted into service in early 2019 following 2 more test firings. AFAIK this has not taken place. pic.twitter.com/irDniUyvnM
— Franz-Stefan Gady (@HoansSolo) December 30, 2019
4. My point is, of course I understand what's at stake for the Muslim community. But that's because the basic idea of Indian pluralism is threatened. Broadbase the cause. You can't fight Hindutva communalism by promoting Muslim communalism. Identity politics will destroy India.
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 30, 2019
One of the greatest privileges of my life was that I was on shift on BBC World that day - this was our show. Behind the scenes were were all screaming at our monitors, blind with tears of laughter, completely incapable of saying or doing anything for a full ten minutes. https://t.co/WDPFnYkEJx
— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) December 29, 2019
la ilaha ilallah (there is no god except God), the Islamic affirmation, rejects 'false' gods. False gods include the nation-state, Hindu, Parsi, Buddhist and Jain gods. Thus it rejects allegiance to Constitution, inclusion and diversity.
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) December 30, 2019
Making it a political war cry is stupid.
Trump's national security adviser apparently doesn't know that Kim Jong Un's family name is Kim.... https://t.co/ePpTvppj3o
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) December 30, 2019
A neighbor called the police to stop kids from sledding down the road...The cops investigated & reported back. pic.twitter.com/4Bmgo5I6vC
— Kevin W. (@Brink_Thinker) December 28, 2019
Be wary of Elon Musk despoiling the ‘vault of heaven’ | Martin Rees https://t.co/fq9VKl2D8c
— Guardian Science (@guardianscience) December 29, 2019
The retreating of O'Higgins #Glacier, #Patagonia,
— Annamaria Luongo (@annamaria_84) December 29, 2019
#Chile 🇨🇱, seen by #Sentinel2 🛰️🇪🇺
during 2016-2019.
Our house is on fire @GretaThunberg . #ClimateCrisis #ActOnClimate pic.twitter.com/DtrVGY583a
Want. https://t.co/yhA70J5iE6
— Daniel Abraham (@AbrahamHanover) December 29, 2019
Now we just need to invent a vehicle to go through said tunnels that can carry a large number of people at once. We could call it a "train". https://t.co/t8hESLVTS1
— Zeke Hausfather (@hausfath) December 28, 2019
Interesting lock pic.twitter.com/BzbWv1Ssab
— Fabulous Weird (@FabulousWeird) December 28, 2019
"Genetic evidence suggests...just over 4 millennia ago a group of Indian travellers landed in Australia & stayed. The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of Aboriginal men’s Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes typically found in Indian men"https://t.co/jug1nFe61Y
— Jamal Jafri (@JAJafri) December 28, 2019
When you're trying to eat the camera-man, but frozen water keeps getting in your way. pic.twitter.com/nteswisJGU
— Laurie-Lu🌍 (@LaurieLuckritz) December 27, 2019
WOW—actual field geology on #Mars!!
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) December 27, 2019
This is a *gorgeous* example of a dry, granular flow, with a slightly more competent (rigid) layer on top of a softer, more deformable material. It's all sand, but the stuff on top is able to clump together whereas the stuff below flows. (1/2) https://t.co/sv3QiZBZ6W
Several videos have emerged that raise serious qs about police behaviour. This CCTV footage is from a shop in a Muslim locality in Meerut that shows police trying to break the camera. #India #UttarPradesh pic.twitter.com/ld7M8GrvkG
— Yogita Limaye (@yogital) December 27, 2019
Despite statements by former IAF Chief BS Dhanoa that the IAF isn't in the business of counting body bags, End of Year Review by MoD reiterates claim that a large no of terrorists were killed in Balakot strike but no mention of the IAF shooting down a Pak F-16 the day after. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Kld314cmLC
— Vishnu Som (@VishnuNDTV) December 27, 2019
This is absolutely the wrong question. No country gets “good” coverage in NYT/WaPo. If you’re in the news, it’s usually because something is going wrong. The better question is when India was out of the front pages and I can give you about two decades of evidence until now. https://t.co/0pIVORUz3c
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) December 28, 2019
Fascinating. When stars go supernova (explode) 99% of the energy is carried away by NEUTRINOS! Neutrinos are weakly interacting: they can go from star core to surface without hitting anything. Yet if our Sun went supernova (it won't), neutrinos would be the thing that kill us! https://t.co/UhUWW5FfbV
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 28, 2019
Ladies take notes!
— nick (@nickturani) December 27, 2019
Met this girl online YESTERDAY, and she’s already trying to learn more about me, not just hook up. It’s called conversation. Learn it. pic.twitter.com/8RrpYG80TV
The Hindu way of countering opposing philosophies has always been by logical discussions and debates and never by violence or deceit.#Periyava #Hinduism
— Sage of Kanchi (@haraharasankara) December 27, 2019
In 2018, 400 'cow protectors' killed Inspector Subodh Singh and set a police post and vehicles on fire in Bulandshahr. The PM did not condemn the mob for killing a policeman. The CM did not attach properties of the accused. The main accused, a Bajrang Dal leader, is on bail. pic.twitter.com/NFJqvcQPuz
— NissimMannathukkaren (@nmannathukkaren) December 27, 2019
What I find interesting here is that the reason for nearly all of these 'bad' predictions can be traced back to the shale revolution.
— Arvind P. Ravikumar (@arvindpawan1) December 26, 2019
What is the next revolution we will miss? #FutureEnergy #FutureWorld https://t.co/wSV3AISVtb
Is Betelgeuse about to explode?
— Dr. Héloïse Stevance 💖 💥 (@Sydonahi) December 23, 2019
Is its recent dimming significant?
Here is a quick infographic summarising what the historical data really has to say about this! 🤩
(Download link below)
1/2@AcademicChatter #scicomm#Betelgeuse #science#astronomy pic.twitter.com/n8GLBFT16U
500 million year old fossils appear to contain detailed evidence of ancient brains -- the kind of preservation scientists doubted could ever happen. https://t.co/eFc99w9Xmj pic.twitter.com/2Lv6tI7PcX
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 26, 2019
Wow: This ultraviolet Hubble movie shows the ring of aurora on Jupiter + the silhouette and shadow of its moon Europa. You can also see the magnetic footprint of Io, just ahead of the aurora! https://t.co/YV657AvPZU pic.twitter.com/qXFJZ7DOCu
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 27, 2019
This #Tiger is still walking in to the record books. Now covered 1500 KM. The tiger is now at Aurangabad forest, after covering hundreds of villages, roads, canals etc across six districts of two states. No conflict reported. He is searching for a female or territory. Monitored. pic.twitter.com/rpwsm6NqIM
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) December 26, 2019
2 interesting and somewhat different pieces on Indian foreign policy:
— Paul Staniland (@pstanpolitics) December 25, 2019
1. Harsh V Pant on how the Balakot/370 moves were the appropriate culmination of years of work to isolate Pakistan and manage India’s periphery:https://t.co/4QsnRiVxG5
Apollo could not compute a return to earth maneuver on board. All lunar maneuvers were computed on the ground & then Capcom read them up to the crew. During 8, 2 TEI maneuvers were read up every pass in case of a comm failure. Photo is my readup pad for #Apollo8 ‘s TEI. pic.twitter.com/OzFGGra7jN
— Poppy Northcutt (@poppy_northcutt) December 26, 2019
Non-Newtonian Fluid pic.twitter.com/cu72WMd7Wk
— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 25, 2019
The Human Nervous System pic.twitter.com/S7cX3XA8RE
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 26, 2019
Are Muslim countries not hosting refugees? Judge yourself! (UNHCR-Mid 2018)
— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) December 25, 2019
Turkey - 3.6M (whole of Europe 2.7M)
Pakistan . 1.4M
Uganda - 1.1M
Germany-1M
Iran - 979,400
Lebanon - 974,600
Bangladesh - 943,200
Ethiopia-921,000
Sudan-908,700
Jordan - 705,800
WHERE IS INDIA?
A thumbs up and an eye-roll for this piece by @terriblemaps 👍 🙄 . Yet another #badgeographyjoke for the collection... pic.twitter.com/yi7SCtBPe1
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 25, 2019
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. This is a lie. Nothing prevents those on student visas from joining peaceful protests. One of the greatest strengths of the US is allowing, for example, Chinese students to do precisely what they cannot do in China. https://t.co/uXGZEEcbBz
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) December 25, 2019
Niraja Gopal Jayal's essay in @TheIndiaForum is a basic read in case one cannot read her magisterial book on citizenship. She outlines why moving from jus soli to jus sanguinis is a problem. https://t.co/cxXzbsWDkk
— Sambit Dash (@sambit_dash) December 24, 2019
This video illustrates a phenomenon known as ‘crown shyness' . In some forests the individual trees do not touch each other resulting in an intricate network of gaps. Amazing !!!! pic.twitter.com/BF1Etie6rO
— Dr Michael Sweet (@DiseaseMatters) December 23, 2019
You can go to school and spend years trying to learn about great marketing.
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 24, 2019
Or you can spend a few minutes watching Steve Jobs - all marketers should carefully listen: pic.twitter.com/I2kMipVg3n
The Fukushima disaster sparked a worldwide phaseout of #nuclear reactors. As #climatechange worsens, it may be time to reconsider our risk assessment, writes The @NewYorker's @carolynkor https://t.co/GspvTyQyKJ
— JesseJenkins (@JesseJenkins) December 24, 2019
In the country’s top 100 geoscience departments, people of color hold under 4 percent of tenured or tenure-track positions https://t.co/ShyfelSeGz
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) December 23, 2019
My favorite satellite loop of the year and maybe even the decade.
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) December 23, 2019
Lightning within the beast that was Hurricane Dorian. pic.twitter.com/I1e2oTI2xK
The Chief of Defence Staff hence would remain a 4 Star General, though senior in rank to a Secretary to the Govt of India, he will function as the ex-officio Secretary for the Department of Military Affairs. Which also means that he shall have powers under the Rules of Business.
— Navdeep Singh (@SinghNavdeep) December 24, 2019
Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who has been appointed as the next foreign secretary, had met Steve Bannon, the guru of the Nazi alt-right, in September and called him a legendary ideologue and a dharma warrior in a tweet. He deleted the tweet later. #JustSaying
— Stanly Johny (@johnstanly) December 24, 2019
Doing a thread on #NPR
— Srinivas Kodali (@digitaldutta) December 23, 2019
To understand NPR, we need to understand wars & migration. The idea NPR came after the war with kargil in 1999. Where pakistanis entered India in civil clothes and we couldn't identify them. #IndiaAgainstCAA #IndiaAgainstNRC pic.twitter.com/FY5zdGLmkO
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King had four children: Yolanda, Dexter, Bernice, and Martin III. As a child, Yolanda wanted to become an actress. She was enrolled into Atlanta's first racially integrated acting school run by Walter & Betty. pic.twitter.com/BWCDx9nLRN
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) December 23, 2019
If #Betelgeuse goes supernova, the blast will take 20,000-100,000 years to reach us, and the Sun's magnetic bubble will shield us. So enjoy. https://t.co/ESHiMG02TP pic.twitter.com/Tmhu6Vq1vG
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 22, 2019
Yes yes I know it’s a deep fake video by that Miles Fisher guy
— atul kasbekar (@atulkasbekar) December 22, 2019
YaaadaYaadaYaada
And in totally unrelated news...👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/LMZBhQzF05
A decade worth of player purchases and sales in the big European football leagues. ManCity made a loss of a billion Euros. Juventus had an insane player turnover rate. Bayern has a very stable decade. Interesting dataset! Source: https://t.co/5UuEpbY9DU pic.twitter.com/DkhcfYEz6a
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 22, 2019
NEW: Relative orbital velocities
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 22, 2019
Planet motions, rotations & tilts to scale. If you're close to the Sun you have to move fast to maintain an orbit, otherwise you get attracted-in!
Share, follow and Happy New Near whichever planet you're on! pic.twitter.com/R4vfWDI6Ks
I'm sure you always wanted to see 700 tomato varieties in just one minute! https://t.co/8hHvaG6pNo
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 21, 2019
Hasan is out here trying to live. https://t.co/6xe96a9QY7 pic.twitter.com/K3nSLzc5nV
— Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (@patriotact) December 20, 2019
This is such a good story about something I knew very little about. https://t.co/wjfeOUI173
— Jonathan O’Callaghan (@Astro_Jonny) December 21, 2019
35 years of change on the Mamoré River, Bolivia, as seen in @NASA_Landsat images pic.twitter.com/Vt6TEdbvdt
— Zoltán Sylvester (@zzsylvester) December 21, 2019
I bet the owner tried for years to share it, but no one ever replied to his emails... https://t.co/BSWhRTg3es
— Samantha Quek (@SamanthaQuek) December 20, 2019
Textbook sediment deposition on the inside of meander bends. #alwaysawindowseat pic.twitter.com/Of44mu2NG9
— Callan Bentley (@callanbentley) December 20, 2019
Fed balance sheet moves up to $4.137 trillion, highest level in 13 months, up $377 billion over the last 3.5 months.
— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) December 19, 2019
"In no sense is this QE. This is nothing like it." - Jerome Powell, Oct 8, 2019 pic.twitter.com/jVqopvIfDd
Very interesting data on manufacturing companies put out by RBI. There’s bad news & good news:
— Ira Dugal (@dugalira) December 20, 2019
Bad news: Sharp fall in sales growth; turned negative in H1.
Good news: Increase in fixed assets, decline in borrowings.
Read here for more perspective: https://t.co/6HdEbue8DG pic.twitter.com/1yUUHEmSeD
India badly needs a center-right movement/party that is not tied to religion.
— Rajesh Rajagopalan (@RRajagopalanJNU) December 20, 2019
I will be back to teaching corporate finance & valuation at Stern in the spring, and as always, you are welcome to sit in (virtually). Since it is free, I can give you a money back guarantee! More on the classes in my next 3 tweets! https://t.co/NUAOKiO26i
— Aswath Damodaran (@AswathDamodaran) December 19, 2019
Hubble has uncovered a completely new class of planet unlike anything found in our solar system. Rather than a "terrestrial" or "gas giant" they might better be called "cotton candy" planets because their density is so low: https://t.co/XVorTR8xF0 pic.twitter.com/yo0pD7iB6p
— Hubble (@NASAHubble) December 19, 2019
This just amazes me. How is it possible for a human being to do this? pic.twitter.com/i62K9CPEuS
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) December 19, 2019
Where is all Earth's water? pic.twitter.com/njfLqNM9Rx
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 19, 2019
The price for the finest "OK Boomer" meme goes to @ClassicArtMeme pic.twitter.com/TTyF5hRko2
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 19, 2019
Dear politicians,
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 18, 2019
This is what it feels like when you try to hide the truth in the digital era pic.twitter.com/woPS4wZVfe
A blowout at a natural gas well run by Exxon Mobil released more methane than the entire reported emissions of the oil and gas industries of Norway and France.
— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) December 18, 2019
The idea that fracked gas is a valid "transition fuel" is dangerous and we must reject it. https://t.co/gNF6Eru7yv
Ram Guha + 3 cops + 1 guy taking video. Clear violation of #Section144 https://t.co/gJNIWO79fI
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) December 19, 2019
Achha...beta tum Jitna Padhe ho na utna hum likh chuke hain https://t.co/Pz7ymyTQDr
— Tigmanshu Dhulia (@dirtigmanshu) December 18, 2019
Saturn is the least dense planet in our solar system with a similar average density to that of wood, while Earth is the most dense planet, being twice as dense as granite on average. Here's a way to visualize what that means for planet sizes pic.twitter.com/17opkraGm1
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 18, 2019
I may only be a so-called professor but I do know ignorant is an adjective. Cheers. https://t.co/J1ukgtX9LC
— Christopher Clary (@clary_co) December 18, 2019
Two brave young scientists just did the unthinkable: they bypassed the IPCC and made our climate forecasts better.
— AukeHoekstra (@AukeHoekstra) December 18, 2019
They input the @IEA STPS (middle of the road) energy scenario into climate models. This shows we are heading for 2.7-3C of warming.
(thread)https://t.co/zlBviyemUK
Question: Why did India 'concern itself with advanced areas of science like atomic energy and space instead of concentrating on agriculture, elementary sanitation and the like?'
— Manoj Saxena (@_India_Research) December 18, 2019
Here is the definitive answer from Indian PM Indira Gandhi in London on Mar 26, 1982. pic.twitter.com/gqPEYm1gRh
You know how everyone just *knew* that #NREGA caused inflation? @econanand and Girish Bahal have a very neat new paper saying 'hold on a minute!': https://t.co/mJE8NjUkxB. Even more interestingly, they provide some evidence for fiscal transfers being non-inflationary in general.
— Arjun Jayadev (@arjun_jayadev) December 18, 2019
Chinese media are now citing India as example to justify censoring the internet.
— Iain Marlow (@iainmarlow) December 18, 2019
"The internet shutdown in India has once again proved that the necessary regulation of the internet is a reasonable choice of sovereign countries based on national interests." https://t.co/jYkL5Hwzqs
Mount Erebus Ice Tongue - 4 years - 2/2 #Glacier #Antarctica #Ice pic.twitter.com/nvuT9Ei34q
— Sérgio OSMsmaprs (@sergioajv1) December 18, 2019
“Die Hard” is lodged firmly in the canon of classic action movies. Should it be included in the canon of Christmas films, too? https://t.co/edIx68d6zo
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 17, 2019
NEW — End of year finale animation!
— Dr James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 17, 2019
Scale & composition of Earth’s surface pic.twitter.com/4PSQh7xsPn
All that noise and all those tariffs just to take agricultural purchases marginally above the level they were at when Trump took office.
— AndreasStenoLarsen (@AndreasSteno) December 17, 2019
My eyes are bleeding! pic.twitter.com/QJHvPJF7cJ
"Vavilov Ice Cap had been moving at a glacial pace for decades. Then, in 2013, it suddenly started spewing ice into the sea, flowing in what scientists call a glacial surge."
— American Geophysical Union (@theAGU) December 18, 2019
News via #AGUpubs
Video: https://t.co/zGgeRrSH4V
Press release: https://t.co/xSVO4Ewjj5
"Vavilov Ice Cap had been moving at a glacial pace for decades. Then, in 2013, it suddenly started spewing ice into the sea, flowing in what scientists call a glacial surge."
— American Geophysical Union (@theAGU) December 18, 2019
News via #AGUpubs
Video: https://t.co/zGgeRrSH4V
Press release: https://t.co/xSVO4Ewjj5
✊Journalism matters. The petition by Ms. Moitra was filed after we exposed in this story how the Aadhaar authority wanted to conduct social media surveillance of citizens to identify ‘top detractors’ and fix ‘sentiments’ about Aadhaar. https://t.co/91xKStIIhP
— Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava (@Kum_Sambhav) December 17, 2019
Chinese CO₂ emissions are projected to rise +2.6% (+0.7% to +4.4%) in 2019, the highest growth rates since 2011!
— Glen Peters (@Peters_Glen) December 16, 2019
* Coal up +0.8% with weaker growth offset by stimulus
* Oil (+6.9%) & gas (+9.1%) both growing strongly, in line with trends#CarbonBudget https://t.co/TykvnLB8G7 pic.twitter.com/XpM7NQYLJa
IIP fails the 'smell test' @PiyushGoyal. Jeffries analysed the latest IIP and found that the minus 3.8% IIP was, in fact, an underestimate. There was, for some reason, a 12-fold rise in 'fragrances' ... that's odd, so once you strip that out, the IIP was minus 6.8%. pic.twitter.com/g2sfnLYEls
— Sunil Jain (@thesuniljain) December 17, 2019
10 years difference in the robotics at Boston Dynamics. pic.twitter.com/qHx19YzF7X
— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 16, 2019
As per many tweets like this, I have realised that those who had no faith or real understanding of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) ended up mimicking the worst form of Islam and calling it Hindutva. https://t.co/vVt50jo3RQ
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) December 17, 2019
🇺🇸 Cerberus Fossae is the first active seismic zone ever discovered on Mars. Located about 1,600 kilometers east of @NASAInSight lander, this huge extensive tectonic structure was the epicenter of two significant MarsQuakes detected during sols 173 and 235. pic.twitter.com/bmQLo8E07L
— SEIS (@InSight_IPGP) December 16, 2019
1. An individual can become a citizen of India through one of four ways (a) by birth (b) by descent (c) by registration (d) by naturalisation. The recent amendment makes minor modifications ONLY to the fourth option.
— Pranasutra (@pranasutra) December 16, 2019
Everyone see this trailer for “Bombshell”? pic.twitter.com/yo6odrbwp0
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 16, 2019
Despite the many events and developments in the oil world in 2019, the thing I think was the most influential = Satellites.
— Mason Hamilton🛢📊⛽️ (@T_Mason_H) December 16, 2019
(Thread) #OOTT
.@WorldViewSpace launches its Stratollite mission, in a flight that will reach the edge of space and demonstrate imaging capabilities pic.twitter.com/N89zLXtiVZ
— Michael Sheetz (@thesheetztweetz) December 16, 2019
Jaw-dropping bathymetry retrieved from around #AnakKrakatau. Huge blocks of rock, some 90m high, now litter the seabed. This is the material that formed the volcano's southwest flank and collapsed into the ocean. #AGU19 @BritGeoSurvey https://t.co/cIDNtPXvbD pic.twitter.com/BIHy1KcBU2
— Jonathan Amos (@BBCAmos) December 16, 2019
Rishabh Pant has learned there's no such thing as a 'natural game'#INDvWI pic.twitter.com/YnUhf0Y4NW
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) December 16, 2019
Coastline Fractal pic.twitter.com/I8FN9ioMPT
— 〈 Berger |🎄| Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) December 16, 2019
University students torched public property, pelted stones at police, brought cities to a halt to protest an elected government. It was 1974. The students, mostly ABVP, were led by Arun Jaitley. Not so long ago, and maybe worth remembering. #JamiaMilia #Delhi
— Raghu Karnad (@rkarnad) December 15, 2019
Inverted subsalt graben and pushed up and thrusted extensional minibasin. Secondary weld and allochthonous salt body. #saltsaturday pic.twitter.com/lYXh7ktskF
— Dr Sandbox (@timdooley) December 14, 2019
The Sandbox Tree also known as the “Dynamite Tree” grows exploding fruits. When fully mature, the fruits explode with a loud bang and fling their hard, flattened seeds at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour. The shrapnel can seriously injure any person or animal in its path pic.twitter.com/SNXdo0Svv6
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 15, 2019
every normal person got this insufferable shit out of their system on forums when they were like 13 and now everyone tells this guy hes a genius because he made a website https://t.co/LYDXagxTXI
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) December 14, 2019
The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier. This ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only the great ocean trenches go deeper https://t.co/ZojE3HBDbG pic.twitter.com/j2PuVvUBix
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 13, 2019
wow pic.twitter.com/ttp7jKE1fz
— Physics-astronomy.org (@OrgPhysics) December 12, 2019
Taslima & Sudip. Both from Bangladesh. Both applied for Indian citizenship. Who will get it? Sudip, cause he is a Hindu. But Taslima was much more persecuted for her views than Sudip.Taslima is truly homeless, prevented from entering B'desh. Sudip is not. He can go back any time.
— taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) December 12, 2019
Food is the key: India enjoyed low CPI inflation from 2000-2006, when food inflation was benign ~2% per year. The recent period, until a few months back, also benefited from exceptionally low food inflation. Can we manage CPI inflation ~ 4% with normal food inflation pic.twitter.com/rpu03E12XG
— DK Joshi (@EconomistDK) December 13, 2019
The effect that maps showing the true size of Russia usually want to achieve is to make us gasp that Russia is smaller than we expected. I look at this map and am astonished just how big Russia really is. Any look at a globe would do the same thing of course... pic.twitter.com/fuzxtedsK2
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 12, 2019
If anyone thinks that what I and the science are saying is advocating for a political view - then that says more about that person than about me.
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 12, 2019
That being said - some are certainly failing more than others.
The BJP’s greatest propaganda achievement is to convince millions that the Congress was somehow responsible for the 1990 Kashmiri Hindu exodus.
— Amitabh Dubey (@dubeyamitabh) December 12, 2019
It occurred during the BJP-supported National Front govt and was egged on by Governor Jagmohan, who went on to become a BJP luminary. pic.twitter.com/RMebwdaz6P
This map from a school text book teaches us the names for different geographica formations. Source: https://t.co/LPQpL7jeTX #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/Ti14nwPBim
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 12, 2019
Blue Origin very briefly shared this rocket landing clip (sped up I presume) in their live stream, which just reminds you how awesome rocket landings are. pic.twitter.com/4LFJIAPw92
— Jonathan O’Callaghan (@Astro_Jonny) December 11, 2019
Congrats to @GretaThunberg from the old dinosaur. I think her dream is unrealistic but it’s hers and it’s shared by millions of others
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) December 11, 2019
Images from the Chinese Gaofen-7 high-resolution optical satellite. https://t.co/FGa2RzIzik pic.twitter.com/1XYASl3s16
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 11, 2019
Here's why rates can never go up. Nothing to see here, totally normal. $FB, $AMZN, $CRM, $HD, $GOOGL, $DIS, $T. I can do this all day long and show same results. pic.twitter.com/ETv3oHNyO7
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) December 11, 2019
Pixelated Wood Sculptures from Taiwanese artist Hsu Tung Han
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 12, 2019
(https://t.co/gIOU2Qg3AW) pic.twitter.com/I5Dz7sYa8A
Free-Fall orbits are gravitational orbits where all planets start at rest and oscillate along open curves
— 〈 Berger |🎄| Dillon 〉 (@InertialObservr) December 11, 2019
(credit: @KangarooPhysics)pic.twitter.com/l8f1W7Lyqp
Showing this in the last optical mineralogy lab this morning! #mineralogy #petrography https://t.co/SkDmfozuv6
— Matt B. (@plinianMB) December 11, 2019
Booster touchdown! Got to love how this one lands. pic.twitter.com/PC3r7tcleK
— Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) December 11, 2019
The latest #Dataprotectionbill allows the State to use the data without consent for virtually anything. pic.twitter.com/aLWHoxm9dk
— P B Jijeesh ☂️ (@jijeeshpb) December 10, 2019
The world’s first liquid #hydrogen carrier ship has been unveiled today in #Japan, marking a major step forward in the Australia-Japan coal-to-hydrogen pilot. https://t.co/ht1pcNVJUV
— Joanna Sampson (@JoSamps92) December 11, 2019
A rare work-related tweet:
— grajohnt ⛰️📃✂️ (@grajohnt) December 10, 2019
My colleagues have just released a Python library for compressing seismic data and extracting data quickly - a real boon for machine learning algorithms.
Have a look here:https://t.co/wbCVijHQO6
A remarkable statistic is that Indian market return has been around 14% INR CAGR since 1980. That's 40 years. Returns last 20 years have plummeted to a mere 11%. And just 6-7% last 5 years. Adjust for volatility ( Sharpe Ratio)... What's left?
— Shankar Sharma (@1shankarsharma) December 11, 2019
This is how all race previews should be written https://t.co/WcNdJf60gH
— Ryan Ellis (@ryanellisracing) December 11, 2019
I haven't seen a better visualisation of historical data:
— Dan Snow (@thehistoryguy) December 10, 2019
The size, country of origin, track and date of every ship carrying enslaved people across the Atlantic.
Astonishing work from @slavevoyages
Please check it out here: https://t.co/8hFJxj13ml
Cc: @simongerman600
This question was asked by Toeplitz in 1911 and remains unsolved to this day pic.twitter.com/csHVA7Cil8
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) December 10, 2019
Floating Water Bridge
— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 10, 2019
Source: Elmar C. Fuchs pic.twitter.com/Ihj4zyfb3N
"This award, to my mind, is a journey which all of us will have to take to exist peacefully with other species," says Afroz Shah, who recruited an army of volunteers to clean up one of the world's most polluted beaches. #CNNHeroes https://t.co/fowscFFVWF pic.twitter.com/a0mL1bYSaQ
— CNN Heroes (@CNNHeroes) December 9, 2019
My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001. My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it. Boat ride home tending to people our boat rescued was indescribable. #whiteisland pic.twitter.com/QJwWi12Tvt
— Michael Schade (@sch) December 9, 2019
Before/after imagery of the Rangitata river in NZ bursting it's banks and running across farmland. This incredible @planetlabs imagery is very fresh, captured less than 2 hours ago. pic.twitter.com/aLGTg4AnLd
— Murray Ford (@mfordNZ) December 9, 2019
A new version of the high resolution mosaic of the Jupiter-facing side of Europa from Galileo on November 25, 1999. pic.twitter.com/oi7xGZuO3N
— Ted Stryk (@tsplanets) December 8, 2019
Some books for #DataScientists:
— Kirk Borne (@KirkDBorne) December 8, 2019
1️⃣Bayesian Methods: https://t.co/J10tm9QhFw
2️⃣ #DataStorytelling: https://t.co/W0eWya4SAJ
3️⃣ #DataMining Techniques: https://t.co/78YifHg5Uk
4️⃣Designing with Data: https://t.co/Q1TE6FLa9s
————#BigData #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #Statistics pic.twitter.com/E29q5ETYOf
First flight for New Shepard in about seven months. https://t.co/oaYYaVTZCE
— Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) December 8, 2019
If you are interested in meandering rivers and their deposits, @RiversToRocks and I will be giving two related talks on (counter) point bars on Monday morning, in the session chaired by @Dr_ESteel and @SheilaTrampush https://t.co/GV9daubzKd #AGU19 (base image by @planetlabs) pic.twitter.com/QLCaQZTePi
— Zoltán Sylvester (@zzsylvester) December 8, 2019
Left step in a right-lateral strike-slip fault = pressure ridge. This example comes from the pavement in a parking lot in Fremont's Central Park. The fault responsible is the Hayward Fault. Pressure ridges here come in all sizes. #streetcar2subduction #AGU19 pic.twitter.com/hcr2317S8v
— Callan Bentley (@callanbentley) December 9, 2019
An unusual view hidden in just 0.7 mm of a Lake Superior Agate kindly provided by Denise M Harrison.#science #art #geology #minerals #crystals #colors #microscope #photography pic.twitter.com/Xh2KJUeYzM
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) December 8, 2019
He has faced #poachers’ bullets, survived charges from #rhinos & big cats. Had to move houses several times to evade threats to his family, all in service to protect national asset. This forest guard just recieved #Earth Heroes Award. Must read.https://t.co/BJWAq2chER
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) December 8, 2019
After jumping signals, cutting lanes, spitting on the road, cat calling a girl, evading taxes , some people insist that standing up for national anthem in theatre is the litmus test for patriotism.
— Mini Nair (@minicnair) December 8, 2019
I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:
— 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 (@jazzemu_) December 5, 2019
2010s - Ed Sheeran, The Shape of You pic.twitter.com/Y4rrOdSGY2
your mom https://t.co/e1VFKac4YR
— New Jersey ☃️ (@NJGov) December 6, 2019
Steps for reading articles:
— Thomas Pluck (@thomaspluck) December 6, 2019
1. Accept cookies
2. Block notifications
3. Deny location to website
4. Decline invitation to subscribe
5. Stop auto-playing video ads/mute sound
6. Dismiss reminder of free articles remaining
7. Shrink drop down banner
8. Click "read more"
9. Give up
Where do tiny bits of plastic go when they are flushed out to sea? A new simulations of plastics from the millimeter to meter scale show wind-driven surface currents called Ekman currents mostly determine the fate of microplastics in the subtropical gyres https://t.co/SNxuIGN0a1 pic.twitter.com/KmAe4PZXV2
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 7, 2019
Thread: Nikki Haley said the Confederate Flag was a symbol of "service and sacrifice and heritage"
— michaelharriot (@michaelharriot) December 7, 2019
I was born and raised in SC so I know a little about this.
Here is the truth behind that statement:
