Was I wrong? https://t.co/I3Vwo80wBn
— Gul Dukat (@realGulDukat) Dec 31, 2021
via Twitter https://twitter.com/realGulDukat
January 01, 2022 at 01:57AM
Geologist by education & Curious by nature ... attempting to make this blog my social media hub .... Posts would be mainly about #Space #Science #Sports #Travel #Geology #Geophysics #Beauty ;-)
Was I wrong? https://t.co/I3Vwo80wBn
— Gul Dukat (@realGulDukat) Dec 31, 2021
Antifragility shd not be jumping frm 5th floor Limited government shd not be anarchy Intellectual freedom shd not be quackery Liberty shd not be sociopathy Free speech shd not be disinformation & Remember that Prudence for others is the highest form of courage Happy 2022!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Dec 31, 2021
At this hour 2 years ago, Chinese media began reporting on cases with unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan. Here's one of the first ever media reports about COVID-19 https://t.co/0AkGqpR7We
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) Dec 31, 2021
micROCKScopica wishes you all a Better New Year https://t.co/NMSP9QEAqX
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) Dec 31, 2021
Last #ThinSectionThursday of 2021 🙃. Here's a lovely Archaean Lewisian pyroxenite from Sutherland, with opx, cpx, green amphibole, and scapolite on grain boundaries (clear, bright colours in xp). Scale bar (lower right =1mm) https://t.co/augF1pvj9u
— John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴🧡 UCU (@FaithfullJohn) Dec 30, 2021
If Holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow. So on taller Holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly 🤙 https://t.co/J1qvjceXC5
— Leif Bersweden (@LeifBersweden) Dec 30, 2021
#thinsectionthursday I have a feeling this rock reached the garnet-staurolite zone 😍 Paragneiss from NE Sardinia (Posada valley). FOV 4.5 mm https://t.co/Gtrqyl2pA6
— Samuele Papeschi (@CalamitaMan) Dec 30, 2021
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— Hailey Lennon (@HaileyLennonBTC) Dec 29, 2021
Not getting discussed enough: Dr. Hotez and his colleagues at Texas Children's have done what Pfizer and Moderna won't— developed a safe and effective #COVID19 vaccine, then transferred the patent to manufacturers in the developing world. For free. https://t.co/ovlgEUYriX
— Jorge A. Caballero, MD (@DataDrivenMD) Dec 29, 2021
A mappy switcheroo. If Greenland and Africa were to switch places on a Mercator map. Source: https://t.co/T4o9XXfCag https://t.co/6GKAg85baw
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) Dec 29, 2021
😭😭😭 #TejRan #TejasswiPrakash #KaranKundrra https://t.co/U1yRpNp6Ux
— Mehjabin💫 (@mehjabin0308) Dec 30, 2021
I’m fucking crying https://t.co/65ak9svoaW
— invader sim 🍌 (@mutantsimian) Dec 28, 2021
Imagine you were born in 1900. When you're 14 World War I begins and ends at 18 years old with 22 million dead. Shortly after, a global pandemic Flu called 'Spanish' ", kills 50 million people. You come out alive and free You are 20 years old. Then, at 29, you survive the global
— Unicorn (@TraderUnicorn) Dec 28, 2021
welp https://t.co/nToVEPbULu
— Twitter (@Twitter) Dec 28, 2021
This didn’t age well. (New York Times, December 20, 1924.) https://t.co/d1u7WMaAqc https://t.co/rvSn8c3jme
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) Dec 22, 2021
Stadiums are a great study of how little space people take up and how much space their cars need https://t.co/AE4XZUMMLm
— 21st Century City (@urbanthoughts11) Dec 26, 2021
Couldn’t resist posting this ad by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway on the conveyance of opium https://t.co/FM6tvvxS59
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) Dec 26, 2021
shark tank India - owners of loss making start ups asking abt contestants’ business profitability. #funding is not a business model.
— ContrarianEPS (@contrarianEPS) Dec 26, 2021
Merry Christmas! (Skeletal olivine, Cenozoic Basalt, Thailand) https://t.co/HtkqblvvJB
— Ruth Siddall (@R_Siddall) Dec 24, 2021
Merry Christmas Everyone! (spinifex-textured olivine, Gorgona island, Colombia) https://t.co/pphbcCofgF
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) Dec 24, 2021
Amazing chart from @dailydirtnap https://t.co/6pH66LkDQB
— ʎllǝuuop ʇuǝɹq (@donnelly_brent) Dec 24, 2021
Good decisions are made by groups, great decisions are made by individuals. When risk mitigation is the key, committees work well. When upside creation is the goal, the smaller the circle the better.
— Jack Altman (@jaltma) Dec 24, 2021
Marx wrote about labor and capital before representative governance was a thing. Mises lauded individualism in a time when collectivism led to genocide. As medicine fits the ailment, so wisdom fits the moment. The fool opens the medicine cabinet and consumes indiscriminately.
— Travis.web1 (@coloradotravis) Dec 24, 2021
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— Conservatives Getting Owned (@cons_owned) Dec 22, 2021
Crazy how much of a difference $200 billion makes https://t.co/RnwpRgzxOy
— Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq. 💸 (@ParikPatelCFA) Dec 23, 2021
🇮🇳 India tested a "next-generation" nuclear-capable ballistic missile over the weekend. Our friends at @planet managed to snap a photo of the Agni-P pre-launch, and @nukestrat and I took a deep dive into what the test means for India's nuclear forces. https://t.co/F7hXkdA5u3
— Matt Korda (@mattkorda) Dec 23, 2021
The priest and the dying soldier, 1962 https://t.co/z93os0pVPX
— History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) Dec 22, 2021
A message from me after the events of Abu Dhabi https://t.co/uYj7Ct6ANQ https://t.co/eThFec8nAi
— Nicholas Latifi (@NicholasLatifi) Dec 21, 2021
Best comment from my latest webcast with Scott Minerd was how this current inflation has more similarities to the 1940s than the 1970s. And yes — two years of inflation (then followed by huge disinflation) is transitory.
— David Rosenberg (@EconguyRosie) Dec 21, 2021
My god this doctor’s Reddit post https://t.co/Q0JcgJGduc https://t.co/pO2Y4cOe2R
— Lauren Hough (@laurenthehough) Dec 20, 2021
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— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) Dec 19, 2021
I was today years old when I learned why we call them "eggplants" https://t.co/c9sNOk3zEK
— A Man With No Name (@SnottieDrippen) Dec 18, 2021
2020.csv 2020(1).csv 2020(2).csv
— emily (@emilyhawkins__) Dec 19, 2021
Don't justify lynching. Period. Violence triggered by hurt sensibilities is an honor thing that is frankly a barbaric relic. It is incompatible with modern life.
— Sri Thiruvadanthai (@teasri) Dec 19, 2021
December 19, 2016: India's highest Test total December 19, 2020: India's lowest all-out Test total #OnThisDay https://t.co/YvGXr7QBMR
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) Dec 19, 2021
This is the 1st generation that's heedless of systemic disease [yet connectivity compounds risk]. Non #Lindy: all ancient & religious texts advocate early drastic overreaction. Ironically, 1st generation to passively accept govt interference w/private matters (Education, labor). https://t.co/Crl5K3zZE7
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Dec 19, 2021
Public and Government😀 https://t.co/tDtQe5FnUs
— Prasad Wakchaure, PhD (@PrasadWakchaure) Dec 17, 2021
2021 Atlantic Hurricane season was one of the most active on record. Accumulated Cyclone Energy >50% higher than the long run average ... probably nothing https://t.co/rwLjmSb9pQ
— Calderwood Capital (@calderwoodcap) Dec 15, 2021
Do you remember the world’s very first nuclear meltdown? That time the US President, an expert in nuclear physics, heroically lowered himself into the reactor and saved Ottawa, Canada’s capital? Sounds like schlocky action movie, but it actually happened! https://t.co/LtAQYC79QZ
— Jeff Lundeen (@LundeenOttawa) Dec 15, 2021
1971 India-Pakistan war,which lasted for 13 days,was one of the shortest wars in History. India Won the War, took 93,000 Pakistani prisoners which was also the largest military surrender after World War II,and Liberated 75 million people of Bangladesh #PakSurrenderDay https://t.co/mIRlDHvU29
— Syed Ata Hasnain (@atahasnain53) Dec 16, 2021
Succession is so good because it follows the classic story structure of "Tom and Gerri are up to something"
— broti gupta (@BrotiGupta) Dec 15, 2021
This is cute and funny but the real amazing thing about this video is that elephants are so intelligent they understand the concept of a joke and can make one up themselves. https://t.co/2fq7PlpqR8
— Mistletony Soprano (@BostonJerry) Dec 14, 2021
A new study suggests aerospace engineers and brain surgeons are not necessarily brighter than the general population - and that a career in either field is within anyone's reach if they apply themselves https://t.co/L18lCHP3WI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) Dec 14, 2021
I must have read/heard over one hundred Indian explanations of vote at the UN — this one on the vote against the UNSC resolution on climate & security is amongst the best: https://t.co/z7tuTF6IGP
— Constantino Xavier (@ConstantinoX) Dec 13, 2021
"In what should have been one of F1's finest ever moments instead we had anger and confusion." @MBrundleF1 dissects the #AbuDhabiGP controversy and Max Verstappen beating Lewis Hamilton in his latest column ✍️ #SkyF1 | #F1
— Sky Sports F1 (@SkySportsF1) Dec 14, 2021
It’s funny how HBO poured all of their money & resources into Westworld, trying to set it up as their next GOT, when all they needed was a show about a rich white family full of assholes. The writing on #Succession is so damn good y’all, it’s almost unfair. Bring on season 4! https://t.co/52rldB7IdK
— ᴇᴅɢᴀʀ (@edckbar) Dec 13, 2021
It’s Tom & Greg’s world and we’re just living in it! #SuccessionHBO #Succession https://t.co/blN5vswxnE
— gdoyle1110 (@gdoyle1110) Dec 13, 2021
This should be illegal https://t.co/aYq5E087XC
— Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc (@JohnDiesattheEn) Dec 11, 2021
The eruption of The Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland. Photo by Arnar Kristjansson https://t.co/pKdHucKees
— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) Dec 12, 2021
Call me mr five times https://t.co/t6PVx2rC91
— Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) Dec 12, 2021
There are no words.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1) Dec 12, 2021
THIS IS BULLSHIT @F1
— Alexis Ohanian 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣ (@alexisohanian) Dec 12, 2021
What a joke. That stinks.
— Gary Lineker 💙 (@GaryLineker) Dec 12, 2021
Petition to have a helmet cam option for an entire race 🤩 (via @F1) https://t.co/wXaXIGOIij
— ESPN F1 (@ESPNF1) Dec 10, 2021
LAP 21/58 Epic stuff at the front as race leader Sergio Perez battles hard to keep Lewis Hamilton frustrated Hamilton eventually gets past to take P1, but his lead over Verstappen is cut to two seconds "Checo is a legend" says Max over team radio #AbuDhabiGP 🇦🇪 #F1 https://t.co/Thc5IPQV09
— Formula 1 (@F1) Dec 12, 2021
The church of the 95% confidence interval https://t.co/YLjXbAAINq
— Alexandre Lacoste (@alex_lacoste_) Dec 11, 2021
Reflecting on SA experience with Omricon thus far in Gauteng - the epicentre in SA. 1. Rate of increase per capita much quicker than any of previous three waves. Strongly suggestive of more transmissible than even delta. 2. Positivity rate 30-40% in some settings.
— Shabir Madhi (@ShabirMadh) Dec 10, 2021
I need the confidence of 24 year olds who have barely scratched the surface of their disciplines and bash out 20-tweet long threads.
— Irshad Daftari (@daftari) Dec 10, 2021
Every BBC series about the universe. https://t.co/pByfozoTpS
— Seán Burke (@SeanBurkeShow) Dec 10, 2021
Dear #advertising, you’re not competing against other advertising. You’re competing against … https://t.co/1SOX1RlSPq
— Sebastian Groebner (@SGroebner) Dec 10, 2021
Idea: An anonymous "vote to end meeting" button where if 50% of people press it, the meeting ends immediately.
— Joey Lorich (@joeylorich) Dec 9, 2021
Diaspore - AlO(OH) - (high relief, pale pink and with high Interference colors) surrounded by fibrous natrolite crystals (with grey interference colors) from Sagåsen quarry, Norway. PPL and XPL Image, 10x (Fov 2 mm) #thinsection #alexstrekeisen #Norway https://t.co/1FvfPXkoXe
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) Dec 11, 2021
Exhibits from the ‘Phenko to Lambi phenko’ series https://t.co/cmgx0bCnUx
— Samir Arora (@Iamsamirarora) Dec 9, 2021
lmao https://t.co/9W5X66dsUy
— Eric Wall (🌈,🌈) (@ercwl) Dec 9, 2021
best new yorker cartoon in decades probably https://t.co/MZtVdnBvld
— Aleph (9, 5) (@woke8yearold) Dec 9, 2021
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— WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMeme) Dec 8, 2021
Top 💙 @danielricciardo 😂😂 https://t.co/gCuBSnAFO1
— Fernando Alonso (@alo_oficial) Dec 9, 2021
An excellent macro way to get a grip on counterfactual of live saved by vaccines. h/t Dan from Prague @maircomm https://t.co/Cw3fuCWD9p
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Dec 9, 2021
In primitive, martial societies, & the mob, a man becomes a full man by killing another man. In civilized society, you don't become a full person until you help in saving someone else's life, or, at least, in improving someone else's condition.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Dec 9, 2021
Time-lapse of braces doing their thing 😮 https://t.co/Q0xAXz5OPo
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) Dec 8, 2021
Gen Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) was on a visit to Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (Nilgiri Hills) to address the faculty and student officers of the Staff Course today.
— Indian Air Force (@IAF_MCC) Dec 8, 2021
Gen Bipin Rawat was an outstanding soldier. A true patriot, he greatly contributed to modernising our armed forces and security apparatus. His insights and perspectives on strategic matters were exceptional. His passing away has saddened me deeply. Om Shanti. https://t.co/YOuQvFT7Et
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) Dec 8, 2021
Animation shows the US death rate per 100,000 people for the different vaccination statuses. Source: https://t.co/85kSukpB1X https://t.co/yWVqnczyRp
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) Dec 8, 2021
Oh no, what happened to my biotite! Ah right, sulphides happened to my biotite... :) https://t.co/4yswqMNCno
— Tarryn Kim Cawood (@RockMunki) Dec 7, 2021
I haven't interpreted seismic data in a while and it is a lot of fun to get back into it but I was not missing these spikes https://t.co/PfxHlzEGC7
— Zoltán Sylvester (@zzsylvester) Dec 7, 2021
Cartography isn't biased, It is just that schools didn't teach good Geography 2D maps (paper or flat screen) CANNOT represent 3D World in right manner preserving angle, distance, area, shape together. Maps produced for navigation (north is always up) will have areas distorted https://t.co/NYJ3yGbCUn
— Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life (@rajbhagatt) Dec 7, 2021
#mineralmonday A happy Biotite in "Titanium", a paragneiss used as dimension stone, kindly provided by @MarmiRossi #science #art #colors #rocks #geology #minerals #microscopy #photography https://t.co/4ppZbXFHmR
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) Dec 6, 2021
Not surprisingly my one is quite abstract "The tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Glenelg-Attadale Inlier" https://t.co/HQPOlMFPJ0
— Prof Craig Storey (@cragtastic) Dec 6, 2021
HERE COMES THE MOTHERFUCKING PERCUSSION SECTION https://t.co/X1psXQEHTw
— Jon “Jon Baker” Baker (@JonBaker) Dec 5, 2021
What a lineup 😄 📸 courtesy @ashwinravi99 #INDvNZ https://t.co/k2Hm4oQwdP
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) Dec 6, 2021
Almost end of the year, and @planet4589 decides to seize the award for "wittiest come-back of the year" with this absolute beauty of a burn...😆 https://t.co/CGYTywLwSs
— Dr Marco Langbroek 💉x2 #Vaccinate (@Marco_Langbroek) Dec 5, 2021
Rectangular melilite phenocrysts (brown at PPL and with blue interference colors at XPL) set in a fine-grained leucite-augite-rich groundmass (leucite have Anhedral habit and Is isotropic at XPL). Melilitite vulture volcano, Italy. PPL and image, 10x (Field of view 2 mm) https://t.co/CUwLcHotNc
— Alexstrekeisen (@alexstrekeisen) Dec 5, 2021
Anyone else have the EXACT same reactions as @alo_oficial in the closing moments of qualifying? 👀 🎥 x @ZS_Racing #SaudiArabianGP 🇸🇦 #F1 https://t.co/9W99dKA0bM
— Formula 1 (@F1) Dec 4, 2021
I promise this is the most hilarious thread and you'll never regret the few minutes it takes to read these comments. Fucking PRICELESS. 1. https://t.co/JUQkUS5Cp3
— ❄🌬Shay🌬❄ (@cherokee_autumn) Dec 3, 2021
Holy shit. This is a photo from *earlier today* of 2021's only solar eclipse, which took place over Antarctica. This pic was taken by Petr Horálek from a Boeing 787 some 12.5 km above the Weddell Sea. At this altitude, totality lasted for ~145 seconds. Look at that shadow 😮 https://t.co/7jZO12OKrv
— Paul Byrne (@ThePlanetaryGuy) Dec 4, 2021
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— Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans) Dec 4, 2021
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— Out of Context Human Race (@NoContextHumans) Dec 4, 2021
Really cool history map shows the Spanish Reconquista (AD 722 to 1492). Tons of information condensed into a simple map. Well done. Source: https://t.co/S4ikRLySyj https://t.co/VEkigKCCHl
— Simon Kuestenmacher (@simongerman600) Dec 4, 2021
Every person on my TL on crypto Twitter ready to meet this man lmao #btc #cryptocrash https://t.co/e7vTAya6IB
— Alejandro (@Drodysseus) Dec 4, 2021
Of the Dark Triad traits, only Psychopathy (P) is weakly related to *lower* intelligence, whereas Machiavellianism (M) and Narcissism (N) are unrelated to intelligence. Meta-analysis of 143 studies, impressive work! https://t.co/VpXkRsi6IJ https://t.co/cbfdHNQAzf
— Markus Jokela (@mmjokela) Dec 3, 2021
How do you like this silicified Dinosaur Bone? (width 1,5 mm) #fossils #dinosaur #paleontology #sciart #scicomm #science #arte #geology #abstractart #wallart #bone #tussue #cells #chalcedony #FridayFeeling https://t.co/jGaYA2fJGa
— micROCKScopica (@micROCKScopica) Dec 3, 2021
😮 https://t.co/K8JNkw3wvd
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) Dec 3, 2021
Free talc porphyroblast in a talc - carbonate - serpentine mylonite. about 1 mm wide. #geology #thinsection #petrography #minerals https://t.co/gqJfeZO6ju
— Samuele Papeschi (@CalamitaMan) Dec 3, 2021
Friends; the Incerto discusses the notion of blindness to COUNTERFACTUALS, effects not seen thanks to a risk reduction measure. As an exercise in empirical rigor missing from the discussion, let's look at: 1) How many lives were saved by vaccines, 2) Morbidities reduced.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) Dec 3, 2021
I don’t know man https://t.co/YldkZEneKG
— 🆂🅼🅾🅺🅴 (@terrill) Dec 2, 2021
Remembering this gem https://t.co/XcxZD4xv7X
— Wescz (@wescz1312) Dec 1, 2021
@elonmusk you know your str8, male, PayPal mafia email group? I was on bcc for MONTHS on that thing 🫖 With that information in mind, don’t you think in a “civilized society” one should embrace paying our fair share of tax? Don’t pick on Bernie. It’s Kendall Roy shit. https://t.co/cW4gRCxvjU
— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) Dec 2, 2021
3/scientists learned that the Delta Variant's Spike protein (the part that grabs human cells) behaves differently: it opens up wider than the original virus. This may allow Delta to infect more efficiently. They'll do these simulations with #Omicron, once its shape is deciphered. https://t.co/kHtEk58g2X
— Dr. Ali Nouri (@AliNouriPhD) Dec 2, 2021
NEW: today’s update from Gauteng, now on a log scale to better show current trajectories. Steepness of lines shows how much faster the growth in cases and positivity is now vs past waves, and hospital admissions are now steepening too as the acceleration in cases feeds through. https://t.co/xBNGzxmwhC
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) Dec 2, 2021
Hope yo are having a nice wednesday, because it already feels like #thinsectionthursday here 😃 Folded serpentine vein surrounded by talc and carbonates in a mylonite from the ultramafic complexes of Elba, Italy #geology #minerals #metamorphism #deformation https://t.co/5q98LkH6Vr
— Samuele Papeschi (@CalamitaMan) Dec 1, 2021
It didn’t take me long in the crypto world to realize that it’s an ecosystem being fueled by the “House Money Effect”. Having spent countless hours in the world of high stakes poker I recognized it instantly and now can’t stop seeing it everywhere I look. A short 🧵👇
— fintechjunkie.eth (@fintechjunkie) Dec 2, 2021
NEW: updated chart showing today’s numbers from Gauteng in South Africa: • Now with test positivity, for those who have asked whether this is driven by increased testing • And stating in the title that hospital admissions are a lagging indicator, as many have requested https://t.co/UO5kUpTU6c
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) Dec 1, 2021
Elizabeth Holmes's daily schedule Circa 2005–2009 https://t.co/hhWUBHhpbe
— Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) Nov 30, 2021
“The first step a tyrant takes toward enslaving a people is to steal their history.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) Dec 1, 2021
Come on man! My luck, 250 million year old salt and it expired two years ago. Damn. ⌛️ https://t.co/vDm7QUlxwV
— Magic Beans🐿️ (@DeanJC420) Nov 30, 2021
Analysis of 6.1 million trades of 4.7 million NFTs shows that the top 10% of traders have traded 97% of NFTs which definitely puts meat on the bones of the hypothesis that a lot of NFT trades are wash sales intended to artificially boost prices. https://t.co/ufgmhE2iBi
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) Nov 30, 2021
No one: Me: So, no one's going to bring up the fact that three of Bollywood's most popular villains are literally named Love, Life, and Soul? https://t.co/Dni1cbBoWS
— P. S. Nissim (@ps_nissim) Nov 30, 2021