When my father was in college they took a photo of his whole year. He noticed the camera worked by panning left to right. So he stood in the back row on the left, waited till the camera had passed him, then raced to the right side and so got in the photo twice.
**RT @DellAnnaLuca:**
The recent wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue
Instead, an estimated $54B-worth of ultra-rich left the country, leading to a lost $594M in yearly wealth tax revenue
A net decrease of $448M+
(sources and calculations ↓)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/DellAnnaLuca/status/1662111839977893888#m
**Response to @paulg:**
You can either work hard enough to get good at some valuable skill, or have to work hard at a menial job in order to make a living.
Working hard is like the army in wartime: you can either volunteer or wait to get drafted.
**Response to @paulg:**
It's hard to imagine a better book to buy for a teenager with a nascent interest in math. This book shows how much more interesting it can be than the stuff they have to learn in school to pass exams.
Joel Hamkins's Proof and the Art of Mathematics is a beautiful book in both senses. It's both beautifully written, but also physically beautiful, thanks to its many illustrations, which I was surprised to hear were made by the author himself.
amazon.com/Proof-Mathematics… (https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Mathematics-Joel-David-Hamkins/dp/0262539799)
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
Known as hurricanes when in the Atlantic Ocean and typhoons when in the Pacific, this map shows the path of all major storms from 1985 through 2005. Bonus: cyclones never cross — and rarely approach — the Earth's equator
\[source, read more: buff.ly/39a3l9U (https://buff.ly/39a3l9U)\]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1661978786903015424#m
**RT @cremieuxrecueil:**
A new preprint added to the case for herpes causing dementia.
How did they do it? They used a Herpes zoster birth date vaccine eligibility cutoff for a regression discontinuity.
Dementia diagnoses were down 3.5% or 19.9% in relative terms for people born a week later.
nitter.moomoo.me/cremieuxrecueil/status/1646702820920373251#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/cremieuxrecueil/status/1646702820920373251#m)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/cremieuxrecueil/status/1661916023992320005#m
**RT @jaltma:**
My spicy take of the day is I think it's an incredible disservice to people in their 20s to tell them 1) they don't need to work hard and 2) they don't need to spend time learning from more experienced people in person.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/jaltma/status/1661898800766795777#m
**RT @whyvert:**
YouGov took various conspiracy theories, mostly right-wing ones, and asked people in several countries if they believe them.
As you would expect, Danes are the most reasonable and people in developing countries are the least.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/whyvert/status/1661889124742184971#m
**RT @PGeldsetzer1:**
Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!
We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!
Hear me out & see preprint: bit.ly/3MVqXU9 (https://bit.ly/3MVqXU9)
🧵1/
https://nitter.moomoo.me/PGeldsetzer1/status/1661776663074738176#m
**RT @Marian_L_Tupy:**
Finnish electricity price drops BELOW ZERO after the latest nuclear reactor is switched on.
That is what the world could have looked like if the greens did not stop humanity from expanding nuclear power.
Remember: nuclear power = no CO2 emissions!
zerohedge.com/energy/finnish… (https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/finnish-nuclear-plant-throttles-output-after-electricity-prices-become-too-cheap)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Marian_L_Tupy/status/1661722948024287233#m
"The newborn brain is plastic, so if we recognise there’s a problem very early we can help it to retrain, adapt, and bypass areas where there is a problem."
irishtimes.com/health/2023/0… (https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/05/22/programme-to-revolutionise-care-of-cerebral-palsy-set-up-with-donations-from-collison-brothers/)
When you see a word as awkward as "degrowth," the reason is often that there's something that someone doesn't want to call by its real name. And so it is in this case. We already have a word for "degrowth." It's called impoverishment.
Jessica's aunt and uncle rode 35,000 miles on a tandem bicycle before quitting at 82 after an accident. Whenever they talk about what we'd call a bicycle, they call it a "single bike."
**RT @matthewherper:**
What if youth mental health awareness efforts are backfiring? statnews.com/2023/05/24/teen… (https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/24/teen-mental-health-crisis-awareness-backfiring-research/)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/matthewherper/status/1661455985263759362#m
**Response to @paulg:**
Prosecutorial misconduct, you say? Do you mean people sentenced to death don't always receive fair trials? Indeed they do not. It's common for innocent people to be condemned to death. Scan down this list and see for yourself:
deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-… (https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence/description-of-innocence-cases)
Wow, this is big news. Alabama is a big death penalty state, and now two former Alabama governors have written an editorial saying if they "had known then what we know now about prosecutorial misconduct," they would have commuted a lot of death sentences.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/… (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/23/alabama-governors-death-penalty-regret/)
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
According to World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Living Planet Report 2022, monitored populations of vertebrates (mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish) have seen a 69% drop on average since 1970
\[read more: buff.ly/3WuIEx9 (https://buff.ly/3WuIEx9)\]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1660934433099206656#m