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    Jan 8

    If you want to be thinking about something else (and why wouldn't you) here's a gentle canter through technologies of light very loosely pegged to the centenary of Einstein's Nobel prize and the subsequent history of the light quantum

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    1 hour ago

    This is it, isn’t it, the discourse that is finally going to break my brain

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    10 hours ago

    You should try working in a children’s hospital, Gav.

    'There are few things more dispiriting than seeing a masked child walking to school.' ✍️ Gavin Mortimer
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    Dec 27

    The inventors of insulin sold their patents for $1 in 1923 - almost 100 years ago. It is a crime against humanity that insulin is made by corporations that care only about maximizing profits, not saving lives. Insulin should cost $0.

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    17 minutes ago

    lenticulaires du jour

    📷 Hey, prévenez-moi si une soucoupe volante arrive ⭐🌙 😄 Belle journée !
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  6. 48 minutes ago

    Turns out it does

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  7. 52 minutes ago

    Does nitrogen fixation have an isotopic signature? If not, why not?

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    2 hours ago

    King size duvet

    Pope Francis reveals 3 key words for every successful marriage
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    1 hour ago

    Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear. Frederick Seidel

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    Dec 23

    Instant classic New Yorker cartoon (by Elisabeth McNair)

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    2 hours ago

    ☀️🌍The project led by the DEGREES Initiative aims to build the capacity of developing countries to evaluate () geoenginering. It's 1️⃣ of the 🔟 ' selected projects to be scaled up in 2022 ⏩

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    11 hours ago

    🤷🏻‍♀️😁

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    22 hours ago

    The founding of Memorial in the late 1980s was a symbol: of the USSR opening up, facing up to its past & to Stalin’s crimes. The shutting down of Memorial is a symbol, too: that in modern Russia the past is being rewritten, reshaped & civil society coming under intense pressure.

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  14. 10 hours ago

    So we finished season 1. The genetic dynasty stuff is really neat and well done and intriguing. The other stuff not so much, and a lot more fight-y that Asimov would have wanted it. Not enough politics, not enough historical materialism.

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    12 hours ago

    Rules to tweet by from , the platonic ideal of a mensch.

    In response to narrowly spread demand, here are my Rules of Twitter. Note that each was learned by violating it repeatedly over the years, so don't bother going back in my feed to find contradictions... trust me, I know.
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    23 hours ago

    Johnson’s government couldn’t even be bothered to bung Matt Hanccok’s local publican a few mill for some defective ventilations systems.

    “The German government invested £452m in Oct 2020 improving ventilation in public buildings, including schools, including… air purifiers, described by Angela Merkel as “one of the cheapest and most effective ways” of tackling Covid spread.”
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    Dec 28

    This one is worth revisiting. Pears can grow pretty much everywhere, but capitalism dictates its profitable to grow them abroad, then fly them twice across the Pacific Ocean. All to make them less healthy and pack in plastic. This cr@p really needs to stop...

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    22 hours ago

    Have to say, the Master foiling alien invasions of the Soviet Union would be my pitch for a Dr Who spin off series.

    Loved reading Matthew Sweet's story of the current Master in "I Am The Master" where he works for the USSR's UNIT during his 77 excruciating years on Earth. Great plot and deeper characterisation. Wish it could be put on the telly!
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    22 hours ago

    This is terrible news. Memorial was founded - by Andrei Sakharov - on the principle of remembering. This is Russia stepping into darkness.

    Russia's Supreme Court liquidates Memorial, the country's preeminent human rights org founded to document the political repressions of the Soviet era and remind us of the terrible things a government can do its own people. Not much demand for that in the Kremlin these days...
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    23 hours ago

    Ex-gangster Alain Moussa opgepakt voor verhoor in onderzoek naar Bende van Nijvel

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    24 hours ago

    He wasn't the only one who hated it! This is what Charles Sibthorp MP said about it at the time: (from Honourable Misfits, available in all good bookshops, etc)

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