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
