Y2K was 21 years ago. Looking back, I think the only thing we learned is that if a bunch people work really hard to stop a problem from happening, lots of other people will assume it was never really a problem.
— Steve Lieber (@steve_lieber) December 31, 2020
#2020yearinreview pic.twitter.com/2SwbaFPc9L
— Star Trek Minus Context (@NoContextTrek) December 31, 2020
Boston Dynamics has released yet another video of its robots dancing that is equal parts impressive, creepy, and cringe https://t.co/RF5mQQhC0m pic.twitter.com/h9hDiEJK8X
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) December 29, 2020
Capella Space unveils super-sharp radar images of Earth (photos) https://t.co/QWMe8U64lI pic.twitter.com/01CaJe9oZO
— SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) December 26, 2020
Ways to say forrin words now we've taken back control:
— Rhydd #FBIW (@Rhyddian) December 26, 2020
Cul-de-sac - Dead end
Eau de toilette - Piss
Grand Prix - Big pricks
Faux pas - Stepfathers
Café au lait - Spanish coffee
Suggestions welcome.
The Spanish flu of 1919 serves as a roadmap for the current macro environment.
— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) December 26, 2020
Thread 👇👇👇
First piece of the Chinese Space Station is set to launch in H1 2021. The Tianhe core module & Long March 5B launcher are undergoing final tests, Zhou Jianping has said. Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft and Shenzhou-12 crewed mission to follow. https://t.co/XyrFhye0uS pic.twitter.com/EfpvAzXkC6
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 25, 2020
I find discussions of herd immunity thresholds frustrating. Herd immunity (which I'll define as a current reproductive rate < 1) depends on policy & behavior. It is NOT an absolute number. THREAD 1/17
— Anup Malani (@anup_malani) December 24, 2020
The curation work for the Ryugu sample is steadily progressing. On December 21, sample catcher chambers B & C were opened and then the contents of chambers A & C were moved to the collection containers in the photo. The largest particles in chamber C are about 1 cm! pic.twitter.com/yWO15cKhG9
— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) December 24, 2020
This time is no different: There are old investors and there are bold investors but there are no old, bold investors 😊 2/n pic.twitter.com/2ZlY27LkME
— Kuntal (@Kuntalhshah) December 23, 2020
#thinsectionthursday (?. well...) and #Christmas2020
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) December 23, 2020
A spinifex olivine Christmas Tree in a komatiite from Gorgona island, Colombia.
Enjoy the Festive Period, stay safe, and see you in a Better Year!#geology #rocks #minerals #olivine #science #art #sciart pic.twitter.com/Z0gDzssev0
He will sign. 1/23
— David Miller (@DavidMillerTax) December 23, 2020
In June 2016, no one knew about No Deal AKA the WTO Option. Almost no one was calling for it. I had published something in 2015 about what would happen in a No Deal situation. It was not until June 2016 that people picked up on it and the FT phoned me. No one understood. THREAD
— Roland Smith (@rolandmcs) December 23, 2020
I don’t care how many times we’ve seen this, I think we could all do with it now. pic.twitter.com/23tJ8PbKrd
— Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) December 21, 2020
Before you opt for conspiracy, it's always best to eliminate incompetence
— robert shrimsley (@robertshrimsley) December 21, 2020
This @tylercowen post about Paul McCartney’s career is mind blowing: pic.twitter.com/Bl4KpeWH9x
— Alec Stapp (@AlecStapp) December 21, 2020
Kaunas in Lithuania and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania have similar geographical features. It would be cool for cities to have geographical twins as sister cities. Source: https://t.co/CrIak65wrV pic.twitter.com/DAUit8pxfI
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 21, 2020
The winter solstice is the specific time at which the North Pole is pointed furthest away from the sun.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 21, 2020
In 2020, that is right now - 10:02 AM UTC.
Chang'e-5 reentry capsule found! pic.twitter.com/Ijv3yaWObN
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 16, 2020
Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems (Dec 15) https://t.co/AVYASUBz8b
— Matthijs R. Koot (@mrkoot) December 16, 2020
AIR-FI technique can send stolen data at speeds of up to 100 b/s to Wi-Fi receivers at a distance of a few meters.
Nice R&D from, once again, Ben-Gurion Uni.
/c @thegrugq
The history of three infectious diseases, smallpox, polio, and measles, – before and after a vaccine was available.
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) December 16, 2020
[from my @OurWorldInData post https://t.co/t2fEYgnfjg] pic.twitter.com/POQKHAsgb4
This might be the hardest picture of the year. pic.twitter.com/OlI9OkgZhb
— doctorlove (@feelickss) December 15, 2020
A beautiful relay ramp in the Afar Rift of East Africa. Relay ramps transfer displacement between overlapping, adjacent normal faults. Note a later generation of faulting cross-cutting normal to strike in the left part of the image. pic.twitter.com/WgmtHNDfNc
— Alba Rodriguez (@_absrp) December 14, 2020
Chart update: #bitcoin S2F (time series only) model. BTC price (red dots) moves nicely towards model line (white line), just like 2017 and 2013. And .. do I see a little orange?👀 pic.twitter.com/R7SGmpHAiU
— PlanB (@100trillionUSD) December 15, 2020
A large number of particles are confirmed to be in “sample chamber A” inside the collected capsule (~11:10 JST on 12/15). This is thought to be the sample from the first touchdown on Ryugu. The photo looks brown, but our team says “black”! The sample return is a great success! pic.twitter.com/34vIx17zOX
— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) December 15, 2020
A lot of data that has been generated in #India have this issue where observers manufacture readings. It is not necessarily limited to weather data though. I have always warned folks when they draw conclusions with such data
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) December 15, 2020
Thanks @navdeepdahiya55 for bringing this issue out https://t.co/ic5Y521llM
Via @ModeledBehavior, this is absolutely false. Excess mortality is way up in the US. This guy provides links to CDC data but I guess either doesn't know how to read them or assumes no-one will follow them. Here's what it looks like. https://t.co/JikU4g38ut https://t.co/xqxue0n7dj pic.twitter.com/ADFspfxekc
— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) December 14, 2020
Sadly, #Bitcoin has been hacked before. When someone minted 184 Billion extra #BTC. https://t.co/C6lK08TlPZ pic.twitter.com/u0dDP8jBX2
— Richard Heart: HEX.com 40% APR, 263x in 301d ⬣🚀🌘 (@RichardHeartWin) December 13, 2020
USD share of trade between the world’s biggest energy exporter & the world’s biggest energy importer in 2014? 100%.
— Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) December 13, 2020
USD share in 2020? 40%.
Quietly, tectonic shifts are occurring. Tectonic shifts tend to happen little-by-little & then all at once. https://t.co/otarcQeTLW pic.twitter.com/K6MaJbvMVV
What do you want your AI-powered Webex Assistant to help you with?
— Cisco Systems India (@cisco_in) December 11, 2020
#Viz: Elevation
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) December 11, 2020
North- South
From Kanyakumari to K2: KK-Bengaluru-Delhi-Shimla-K2
To the soul asked me "why dont you show us north-south?" https://t.co/0kVG7AKkO2 pic.twitter.com/a6ebMIN5f4
High resolution color-adjusted panorama of Mount Sharp in the area of a butte and dunes. Captured as part of a huge 360 mosaic taken by @MarsCuriosity's MastCam in November 2019 (Sol 2600)https://t.co/wWdC1WhBni pic.twitter.com/K4KhFgqeVr
— Kevin M. Gill (@kevinmgill) December 10, 2020
Amazing visualisation the Milankovitch cycles in one simple video which I’ve already embedded into my lessons ... makes this easy for every student to understand #Geography #geographyteacher #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming pic.twitter.com/1F8gsRdO1C
— Geography made easy (@easygeography) December 10, 2020
Nothing's fucked me up more in the past few weeks than the person who tweeted that it's March again in three months
— Alanna Bennett (@AlannaBennett) December 10, 2020
I simply can't take my eyes off this seismic reflection profile that images clinoforms offshore NW Australia....😍 pic.twitter.com/FMJ8FOCzQn
— Christopher Jackson (@seis_matters) December 10, 2020
REVEALED: Indian Chronicles – how a massive 15-year influence operation successfully targeted the EU & UN with 750+ fake local media and 10+ zombie-NGOs.
— EU DisinfoLab (@DisinfoEU) December 9, 2020
Executive Summary & full report: https://t.co/W3IAxQTOqZ
Here are the facts 👇 (1/n) pic.twitter.com/eXW6bh48gv
This hand drawn topographic map of North America was published in @NatGeo in 1889. Source: https://t.co/1uVMnqrO7m pic.twitter.com/8jBg41bf3o
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 9, 2020
Me: Why did my alarm not go off?
— Vega (@jvega3_) December 8, 2020
My alarm: pic.twitter.com/wGKB33ViMw
Survivorship Bias 101
— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) December 9, 2020
History is written by the victors. But if we exclusively focus on these successes, we allow survivorship bias to distort our understanding of the world.
But what is "survivorship bias" and how does it work?
Here's Survivorship Bias 101!
👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/cP4jBsmuzh
A special thanks to those young women and men who shared their stories and documentation about Pornhub, because they didn't want other kids to endure what they had suffered. It was their courage, their stories, that made this happen. Teens like Serena: https://t.co/syVIjZgEy6
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) December 8, 2020
Image:
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) December 8, 2020
Cryteria (modified)https://t.co/ICebVcdH1f
CC BY:https://t.co/5YJhpDj3vT
Gartner (modified)https://t.co/EX3wcYtv16
eof/
Link: https://t.co/mt2VhNLZS0
— Ana Bretón (@missbreton) December 8, 2020
NEW YORKERS:
— Ana Bretón (@missbreton) December 8, 2020
Today I learned the design for these radiators came about during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Engineers wanted to keep an apartment warm while ventilating the space from airborne illnesses because THEY WERE MEANT TO BE KEPT ON WITH THE WINDOWS FULLY OPEN (!!!!) pic.twitter.com/OmomgkOmAv
Many view ushering in of MMT as death of $ & decline of America on global stage. Ultimately this is the likely case. But what seems to be overlooked is in the short term, this is not the hegemon retreating, but rather removing a veil of altruism & instead going full on Empire...
— Santiago Capital (@SantiagoAuFund) December 8, 2020
Here I describe a brief overview of how the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna mRNA vaccines work. Taking a vaccine is one’s personal choice, and I hope this video can help someone make that decision rooted in science. pic.twitter.com/ZjFH0DH5ca
— Rob Swanda (@ScientistSwanda) December 7, 2020
Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were all in theaters at the same time in October of 1994.
— UberFacts (@UberFacts) December 8, 2020
Ever stop in wonder to think how *amazing* it is that we have access to scenes like this - inhospitable locales, imaged at a relevant scale from a site off-planet, and allowing us to review almost 2 years in 5 seconds? https://t.co/j94thbcSeK
— Callan Bentley (@callanbentley) December 7, 2020
The moon photographed over 28 days at the same place and at the same time. pic.twitter.com/ErsngTY7qD
— Physics-astronomy.org (@OrgPhysics) December 6, 2020
It was 1919—the world was recovering from a pandemic.
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) December 6, 2020
In a garage Frank Conrad was building a mobile telephone—he called it 8XK.
Hobbyists built crystal devices and heard his tests.
What did he invent?
Broadcast radio—sent music around the world.pic.twitter.com/GwZRjYlpPQ
This is one of the coolest space videos I've ever seen.
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) December 6, 2020
Here, the #Change5 ascent vehicle separates from the orbiter after dropping off its samples.
But the tech, the lens flare, the Moon in the background—I think it's incredible that this is real.
(📷CNAS/CLEP/@LaunchStuff) pic.twitter.com/88vHT6XmdH
The most distant point from land is called Point Nemo. It's a 2,688 km swim to the nearest land (Pitcairn Island). Source: https://t.co/mwk5OdTUI3 pic.twitter.com/kaObS7PRnP
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) December 5, 2020
The US government doesn't seem to be a fan of this trend: https://t.co/RKyjJ6plzL pic.twitter.com/CASxCc5qsB
— Lyn Alden (@LynAldenContact) December 5, 2020
Ok, FinTwit, do your thing! Is this a big deal? If so, why? pic.twitter.com/nFJk2D7X5N
— Randy Woodward (@TheBondFreak) December 4, 2020
3:20: Ugh stupid google calendar notification, I still got 10 minutes
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) December 4, 2020
3:27: Ugh, I could call in now but I'd be early
3:28: Still too early. I don't want to just sit there.
3:29: I'll dial in like 30 seconds
3:40: Oh fuck
Hi there, Chang’e 5!
— Thomas Zurbuchen (@Dr_ThomasZ) December 5, 2020
Check out this pic from @NASASolarSystem’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter @LRO_NASA , in orbit about the Moon doing science since 2009. Details at https://t.co/Gk2ndhV2ZM pic.twitter.com/I6cdMg3YwH
Very powerful words from @RGrosjean as he re-lives his escape from the inferno on Sunday, with @MBrundleF1 and @SkySportsF1#HaasF1 pic.twitter.com/yrEZZCtkLf
— Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) December 4, 2020
If your business is closed for some reason, never open it fully when problem is over.
— Samir Arora (@Iamsamirarora) December 4, 2020
Best is to open it 5% then 10% then 15% and take many many quarters to come back to full scale.
This way analysts can report steady improvement every week/month etc.
Inject that lipid nanoparticle encapsulated mRNA encoding a rationally designed stabilized mutant SARS CoV-2 spike protein into my VEINS
— HoorayForZinder (@HoorayForZinder) December 3, 2020
WOW! Moment of ignition of the Chang'e-5 ascent vehicle pic.twitter.com/e3VJM5qiGu
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 3, 2020
Chang'e-5 sampling activities were completed ~19 hours after landing, China Lunar Exploration Program states. Preparations for launch of ascent vehicle are underway, with liftoff expected ~15:10 UTC/10:10 am EST today. Below: raptor footprint-like scoop marks in lunar regolith. pic.twitter.com/cWnN85aceW
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 3, 2020
China’s space agency has released a high-resolution panorama from the Chang’e 5 lander on the moon, showing the craft’s landing leg embedded in loose lunar soil, rocks strewn on the surface, and hills on the horizon.
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 3, 2020
Read more: https://t.co/ssrWeXFwbU pic.twitter.com/FsO0hIE8GK
Want to know how a kid from Jersey City went from graffitiing the Holland Tunnel to selling over $200,000,000 in art last year alone?
— MasterworksIO (@MasterworksIO) December 2, 2020
Time for a thread 👇👇👇
I'm pretty sure that I have never hit the correct choice of these two buttons on the first try... pic.twitter.com/rfsm6A0wMX
— Ian McMillan, CMT (@the_chart_life) December 2, 2020
The biggest action on pricing carbon isn’t in Congress these days – but @FERC. The agency took a final round of comments today on whether/how carbon-pricing should happen in regional power markets. Let’s check in on that, shall we? [thread]
— Travis Kavulla (@TKavulla) December 2, 2020
Why Are Farmers Protesting Against Laws Which Will ‘Supposedly’ Help Them.
— शिक्षित बेरोज़गार (@kaul_vivek) December 1, 2020
This piece has crossed 70,000 hits on my website. Do read and share it.
Reforms by stealth.
Why it is important to talk to farmers.https://t.co/pHdnxpUiHG
Chang'e-5 has been busy scooping and drilling for samples from the landing site in Oceanus Procellarum. Here's gif of the scoop arm in action, placing material into the sample container. pic.twitter.com/jq0hbJwV20
— Andrew Jones (@AJ_FI) December 2, 2020
YOU GUYS! HERE IT IS!!
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) December 2, 2020
Video of the descent and landing of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, which touched down in the basaltic plains of Oceanus Procellarum on the lunar nearside yesterday.
Look at that landscape! It's craters all the way down!! 😍 pic.twitter.com/qiW9vNzKXE
does one single person know what salesforce is or does
— Internet Person™⭐️ (@TimHerrera) December 1, 2020
Today Google @DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.
— Jason Crawford (@jasoncrawford) December 1, 2020
What is this problem, and why is it hard?https://t.co/OjbP3RBPEi
— Ben Fuller (@Fuller_F1) December 1, 2020
It's like schrodinger's probe. Some say it landed, CCTV says landing at 21:00 EST tonight. Who knows. Really truly a terrible look for #Chna. Could have been a moment for world to celebrate with them, instead they sowed confusion and made themselves look bad. #MoonLanding
— Chris G - NSF (@ChrisG_NSF) December 1, 2020
Magical glowing blue oceans created by billions of microscopic single-cell bioluminescent organisms known as sea sparkles (Noctiluca scintillans).pic.twitter.com/dMFqyZU9hU
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) November 30, 2020
Important story, do read it in full.
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) December 1, 2020
But for those who don't:
• The numbers suggest Chinese under-reporting was similar to early stages of many Western outbreaks, and indeed better than some
• It confirms that tight restrictions — whilst late — restricted the worst to Wuhan https://t.co/BBuhXPCNNR
CNN exclusive: Vast trove of leaked documents shows China underreported Covid-19 numbers, took weeks to diagnose new cases and didn’t disclose a December flu spike in Hubei https://t.co/VwQzKLsPNt
— CNN (@CNN) November 30, 2020
An update from Romain himself. Pleased to see you’re in good spirits! We hope you make a speedy recovery 🙏 pic.twitter.com/njnjjH4GBi
— Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) November 29, 2020
Face-off between two alluvial fans, Yuzhny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Russia [image source: Apple Maps] pic.twitter.com/2sukZfF1xj
— Zoltán Sylvester (@zzsylvester) November 29, 2020
We are so thankful that Romain Grosjean was able to walk away from this. We did not need a reminder of the bravery and brilliance of our drivers, marshals, and medical teams, nor of the advances in safety in our sport, but we truly got one today#BahrainGP 🇧🇭 #F1 pic.twitter.com/z8OeTU5Nem
— Formula 1 (@F1) November 29, 2020
Kotak Bank has a "new" Netbanking interface they want me to try.
— Madhu Menon (@madmanweb) November 29, 2020
But it does not support password managers or pasting passwords.
I won't use it. It's an asinine design decision.
You want people to reuse passwords? GAH!
My passwords look like this: 6&uEsN@7Cspci5^UAR*g pic.twitter.com/kmTipTaRp1
— Mattzel89 (@Mattzel89) November 29, 2020
UPDATE: Romain has some minor burns on his hands and ankles but otherwise he is ok. He is with the doctors just now.#HaasF1 #BahrainGP
— Haas F1 Team (@HaasF1Team) November 29, 2020
I apologised to him while I was batting 😂 🦁 🙏 #kxipfriends ❤️
— Glenn Maxwell (@Gmaxi_32) November 28, 2020
Construction of Rewa Ultra Mega Solar power plant in #MadhyaPradesh as seen by @CopernicusEU Sentinel 2 in @sentinel_hub pic.twitter.com/brF8gnrRLu
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) November 28, 2020
On Thomas Paine's bones and what happened in Mahad (Maharashtra) in 1927. Thread.
— Ambarish Satwik (@AmbarishSatwik) November 28, 2020
How did I not know that Maradona was going to sign for Arsenal but Thatcher launching the Falklands War made the deal fall through!? pic.twitter.com/cz2r8F6jhe
— Louis (@Louis_Allday) November 27, 2020
These beds were at almost 90 degrees. Wyoming, I-80. pic.twitter.com/kHGgtoRzNc
— Emily Devenport (@emdevenport) November 27, 2020
All those well meaning souls who expect the civil servants to criticise the Govt on social media platforms are requested to share their posts against their current employer/boss/spouse.
— Arun Bothra (@arunbothra) November 27, 2020
Thanking you in anticipation.
A reminder that NO ONE has more USD-denominated debt coming due in the next 12 mths than Uncle Sam (37% of ~$20T = $7.4T due w/in 12 mths).
— Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) November 25, 2020
Uncle Sam has 3 options:
1. Default.
2. Crowd out global USD borrowings & crash his own stock market & economy.
3. Print the money. pic.twitter.com/y7nPiMTA0l
THEY GOT IT BACKWARDS!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 26, 2020
There are more flaws with the Danish Mask Study. In fact what is not flawed provides an overwhelming evidence in favor of masks (risk reduction >70%, perhaps >90%).https://t.co/30k63kWJyn pic.twitter.com/IBxWs1y4QJ
How it started: How it’s going:#AstonMartin #Vantage pic.twitter.com/e7Erwsurnd
— Aston Martin (@astonmartin) November 26, 2020
Last week we heard rumors that the U.S. Treasury and Secretary Mnuchin were planning to rush out some new regulation regarding self-hosted crypto wallets before the end of his term. I'm concerned that this would have unintended side effects, and wanted to share those concerns.
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) November 25, 2020
“A college class had two teaching assistants: one male and one female. At the end of the semester, the students scored the male TA higher on course evaluations, while the female TA got five times as many negative reviews.
— Dr. Catharine Young (@catgyoung) November 25, 2020
There’s just one problem: They were the same person” https://t.co/RUdn4Gq5mZ
Thread
— Tenzing Lamsang (@TenzingLamsang) November 24, 2020
Chinese roads into disputed Bhutanese territories did not come up overnight but it has been happening since two decades.
In the past Bhutan raised objections and discussed it in the National Assembly.
China stopped in some cases but patrolled areas already built by it.
Story of the megacity called Chennai in India...
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) November 25, 2020
Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun/July/Aug/Sep/Oct - Water Scarcity
Nov/Dec - Water Scares the City!
What started as a routine flyover suddenly took a turn after Utah officers stumbled upon a shiny, mysterious monolith in the middle of the desert https://t.co/s2fIYEXvjr pic.twitter.com/3qhtW96PdI
— CNN (@CNN) November 24, 2020
One did so well, he even became a big favorite of Aurangzeb's who then named him "sawai." That's how the title was born. Out of Mughal generosity (ref. my thread on Kachwaha Rajputs). https://t.co/VoTq6Rxe4d
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) November 24, 2020
The Whin Sill is amazing. This stretch of it at High Cup Nick is particularly spectacular. It’s size and breadth is brought home to you when you clamber up the columnar joints and onto the top surface of it. pic.twitter.com/0gegVMqgjr
— Fabian Wadsworth (@FabianWadsworth) November 23, 2020
— SonaliRanade (@sonaliranade) November 23, 2020
Found this page. 😂 pic.twitter.com/iPjh6Lv3su
— 💲hibendu🅿odder 🔱 (@Imtony_26) November 23, 2020
What's the true color of Mars? Here's a comparison of three common types of shot. Left is raw (like a phone pic), middle is adjusted to show how humans see it (natural) and right shows Earth-like lighting. Image taken by Curiosity rover 23 Aug, 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS pic.twitter.com/YFPZHiyhnu
— James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) November 23, 2020
The US Presidential Election results from 2020 presented as a cartogram by @geoviews. A nice way of showing the rural / urban divide. The central states tend to have a blue core surrounded by a red ring. Source: https://t.co/pQ2ZO3fW1X pic.twitter.com/zHy376iz7j
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) November 23, 2020
November 23, 1746, German zoologist & explorer Georg Wilhelm Steller passed away, the figure - from his travel account - shows Klyuchevskoy #volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula (Siberia), the highest active volcano in Eurasia
— History_of_Geology (@Geology_History) November 23, 2020
🌋https://t.co/uhn4JxlSd3 pic.twitter.com/OESepTPtNc
Is there a short reliable synopsis of what this whitehatjr byju thing is all about? I'm getting questions drawing parallels to my iipm times. And I can't exactly make out from googling what the story here is. Twitter info is also disjointed.
— Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (@gauravsabnis) November 23, 2020
The headlines from the 1918 pandemic are incredible. pic.twitter.com/iRnCdl7nty
— Dana Mattioli (@DanaMattioli) November 22, 2020
The fractal nature of stratigraphy: are you a splitter or a lumper? [this is a chronostratigraphic diagram, split into stratigraphic units at 9 scales] pic.twitter.com/cQNoWhIJmO
— Zoltán Sylvester (@zzsylvester) November 22, 2020
Is Bitcoin actually a negative yielding bond (with defined supply), just without a sovereign?
— Travis Kimmel (@coloradotravis) November 22, 2020
Another thread guaranteed to make me wildly popular on the interwebs.
1/
A rollercoaster crash for @aroncanet44 💥
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) November 21, 2020
The Spaniard was lucky to escape this scary accident at Turn 8! 😱#PortugueseGP 🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/7e9iPvGKym
2 major vaccine announcements, unlimited printing, spewing optimism about rotation trade and supposed massive growth in 2021 yet the 10 year failed again at the June highs and is back at March levels.
— Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) November 21, 2020
The bond market is not buying what bulls are selling. pic.twitter.com/U0SKqE9E8F
So, the atmosphere of Uranus is rich in hydrogen, but poor in oxygen. Hear me out: if we take a comet and slam it into Uranus, we could light it on fire, pleasing children around the world.
— Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) November 21, 2020
One of my pet dislikes is any SF outside of Star Wars where people still use swords. If I'm watching a show with nuclear powered ships and energy weapons and someone whips out a katana, I'm out. I can't handle the silly. Star Wars gets a pass because it has actual space wizards. https://t.co/XvkkT3LuMI
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) November 21, 2020
Looks about right...
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) November 21, 2020
Credit: @BenjiBacker pic.twitter.com/ME7SubvHPD
#30DayMapChallenge
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) November 21, 2020
Map 21: Water
Animation shows #rainfall accumulation across #India in 2020 till October
நீரின்றி அமையாது உலகு! pic.twitter.com/JVkRThgtPt
People keep asking me how I went from 143 followers to 150 in just 6 months.
— Steve Lamar (@StevejLamar) November 21, 2020
Let me tell you it has been a journey.
A thread 👇
#OnThisDay 1973: Luke Casey took a poignant snapshot of Belfast at the height of the Troubles, a city the reporter had never previously visited. pic.twitter.com/zU0y0hYNwq
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) November 21, 2020
This "Encyclopedia of Pasta" reminds me that I refer to very few pasta varieties by their real names. Source: https://t.co/4PTqDUXIyx pic.twitter.com/9D2uSWzUJz
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) November 20, 2020
I just turned 35. I'm supposed to be entering my higher-earning years, but I'm in the energy industry. If the value proposition offered to someone like myself is to "survive", the energy industry will not have any younger talent left.
— Robert Hefner (@RobertHefnerV) November 20, 2020
This is totally amazing!!! 🤣 Have you seen it? The final part is my favorite, but I also like the fractal cucumber 👍 😄 https://t.co/X9jAAvHisP pic.twitter.com/wekYJnpvCP
— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) November 20, 2020
This is the famous "mystery box," as laid out by JJ Abrams. It seems to work, because the people who came out of that Lost camp all have big name careers now. But as a story teller myself, it's a style that universally fails to work on me. I'm okay being the minority on this. https://t.co/rszCRXD37b
— James S.A. Corey (@JamesSACorey) November 19, 2020
Here’s a large chunk of the mantle. A couple peridotite xenoliths encased in basalt. These ultramafic xenoliths are dense. #geology pic.twitter.com/sE6XVdRms5
— Cin-Ty Lee (@CinTyLee1) November 19, 2020
Admit it, THIS is the ONLY reason you are on @Twitter pic.twitter.com/ojfYTW8aeP
— Sony Kapoor (@SonyKapoor) November 19, 2020
Upon reaching the US in 1928, this is how the great Sarojini Naidu introduced herself. pic.twitter.com/Z6imCuwBIo
— Brut India (@BrutIndia) November 19, 2020
Because they can’t.. there’s no one on the other end willing to loan to US for 30 years at 1.5%
— R Diggs (@richard_diggler) November 19, 2020
Hello to all our new viewers who've encountered our 2019 segment on voting machines through conservative media using it to push Trump's voter-fraud claims! First: sorry we swear so much! But second: the way people are using that segment is horseshit!
— Last Week Tonight (@LastWeekTonight) November 19, 2020
What I find ironic about Mr Salve’s arguments re Amazon being the “East India Company” is that Mr Salve is sitting in London, associated as QC with a UK Law Chamber. Lord Clive would have found it funny I think.
— Ameet Datta (@DattaAmeet) November 19, 2020
2) For starters the paper does'nt make the claim by "James Todaro, MD", that masks were NOT effective.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 19, 2020
Worse, there is in fact a big problem w/the study: it is ONLY saying:
"If you have exposure to COVID inside your house, wearing a mask in the garden won't protect you".
Trees swallowing Trespassing Signs pic.twitter.com/LQCmsupYK3
— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) November 19, 2020
It would be welcome news if Sweden’s deaths were not climbing following a rise in hospitalisations, but sadly that’s not the case
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) November 19, 2020
We know Sweden reports deaths differently to all other European countries; when you apply the same method, its latest daily figure is not 11, it’s 83 https://t.co/qLLxcNqFMc pic.twitter.com/Zkx2EJ8Y41
A guy records a Soyuz launch from an insanely close distance.. pic.twitter.com/xcQ3CTeDU8
— 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 (@crk5) November 19, 2020
$MRNA safety appears to be substantially worse than $PFE / $BNTX. As a reminder: Grade 3 = severe, interferes with activities of daily living. pic.twitter.com/Ghz6TwCIHJ
— Sheep of Wall Street (@Biohazard3737) November 18, 2020
Voters turned out in record numbers in 2020, even during a pandemic. Both major parties gained millions more votes compared with 2016.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 17, 2020
Our analysis found that votes were up in nearly every county. We explored where each candidate benefited most. https://t.co/4aS0Ljj5ag
PPL (plane polarised light) and XPL (cross polarised light): Pyroxene (green) and Skeletal olivine crystals in a Etruscan (pre-Roman ege) Furnace Slag, Campiglia Marittima (Livorno province), Italy. 10x (Field of view = 2mm) pic.twitter.com/5QuYrzZMfB
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) November 17, 2020
Broad student loan debt cancellation via executive order is good economics and politics. A thread (with lots of data). 1/
— Bharat Ramamurti (@BharatRamamurti) November 16, 2020
There are two periods in which I answer emails: 30 seconds after you sent it or 30 days after you sent it, there is no in-between. https://t.co/QYgi69aG9D
— Haley Wahl (@hwahl16) November 16, 2020
I hate adding watermarks to the maps I prepare as they spoil the message or the beauty of the maps.
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) November 16, 2020
But when someone crops my name & credits for the data source), it irks me a bit.
Disappointing. Just letting everyone know - The maps I prepare are for free :)don't crop please https://t.co/jRS8paAy8Q
If Ridley says something is a ‘good point’ you can instantly conclude that he’s dissembling. Local changes are not global changes (the former can be much larger) & (given the poorer resolution of changes in the geologic record) there’s no evidence of faster events in the Cenozoic https://t.co/wcckmU3CtM
— Gavin Schmidt (@ClimateOfGavin) November 16, 2020
Just remembered that I used to drink banana tea (just sliced banana in boiled water, let it cool) before bedtime and it would knock you out like you owed it money
— Gerry McBride (@GerryMcBride) November 15, 2020
Yes I have seen the meme. Please, for the love of God, stop texting it to me. pic.twitter.com/o421yLNVes
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) November 15, 2020
Ok, so let’s address this. I’m 23. I came from little. I need to protect not just my future but my family’s too. To do that I made a decision at the beg of 2020 to start investing more in property. Please don’t run stories like this alongside refs to ‘campaigning’. pic.twitter.com/coqla2i19d
— Marcus Rashford MBE (@MarcusRashford) November 15, 2020
I can handle the German pandemic response being better than ours, but I don’t think I can handle it being funnier https://t.co/PbcjKKzxSs
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) November 14, 2020
Fun fact: there's one of these standing waves on Venus, except it's 10,000 km across and it's caused by the superrotating atmosphere flowing over a mountain https://t.co/jjymncLgXw
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) November 15, 2020
Google discovers there’s more to life—a lot more—than STEM excellence. Soft skills come out on top, even in GoogleLand. https://t.co/Iv7KQL4LUK
— Tom Peters (@tom_peters) November 15, 2020
What if we were the black Racing Point all along?
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) November 15, 2020
Frameworks of major Asia-Pacific trade deals pic.twitter.com/zyK2zFZ978
— 𝕮𝖍𝖎 (@chigrl) November 15, 2020
This is one awesome video !
— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) November 15, 2020
Thanks @100MasterBlastr for putting together @sachin_rt's first and last test innings for India in this video.#SachinTendulkar#SachinDebutTest#31YearsOfSachinism pic.twitter.com/ys5CY21A9b
someone filmed a 24 hour time-lapse of their plants to show how much they love to move pic.twitter.com/RUFyCchoVn
— plants⁷ (@pIantporn) November 14, 2020
I'm seeing a lot of chat about PCR and COVID, some of it quite bonkers. So here’s a PCR 101.
— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) November 15, 2020
DNA is very small and therefore not easy to detect. PCR is a tool for multiplying specific bits of DNA from a few to billions, thus making it easy to detect. 1/n
Irregular reminder that landslides can behave like fluids.
— Mika McKinnon (@mikamckinnon) November 14, 2020
(Thank you for all the pings!) https://t.co/dfmCzSyQ3v
In this #thread I aim to fulfil 2 objectives:
— Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری (@yusufpore) November 14, 2020
1. Provide historiographical evidence about “gunpowder” as a military tool.
2. Appeal to #History enthusiasts to think for themselves and seek the truth rather than seek historiographical validations from supremacists with motives. https://t.co/2QKjOUWXgc
