Why the world’s most vaccinated country is seeing an unprecedented spike in coronavirus cases looks like issue is lower effectiveness vaccines r the problem
Stalin's liquidation of the kulaks was not entirely motivated by economic or class concerns. He was also driven to eliminate "the natural leaders" of the peasants who might have organized against communist subjugation.
“that's really what fashion ultimately is: a signal of how much access to information you have. Not just in the world of clothing. There’s fashions in management styles. There's fashions in academic topics. There's fashions in all kinds of things”
Reminder that instead of preparing for pandemic diseases, FDA has spent years trying to make food taste worse under the now mostly debunked theory that salt causes heart disease.
#MadhavDeshpande announced on (the link is accessible also to people who are not members of the mailing list) that he will be giving a talk in Sanskrit on पाणिनीयव्याकरणे विचारस्वातन्त्र्यम् on May 6 at 7pm [Indian Standard Time].
Francis Collins’ email in @naturenews is jaw-dropping! The Head of US NIH calling with @gatesfoundation "we control 90% of research funding" on their collective economic power, to force scientists in the global south to their knees. Scientific colonialism!
is much better than for reading ebooks. Finished a great historical fiction by @vasudhendra7 - Tejo Tungabhadra. Kannada books as ebooks are a delight now to read.
is much better than for reading ebooks. Finished a great historical fiction by @vasudhendra7 - Tejo Tungabhadra. Kannada books as ebooks are a delight now to read.
"'Shtisel' has managed the ultimate artistic feat of pinning butterflies under glass. It has captured life, real and vivid, poignant and complex, full of aching joy and sadness. Look, it says: this is life. It is short. It is endless."
My latest @ProSyn column examines Western media's troubling double standard: Coverage of tragedies in non-Western societies is usually filled with graphic and harrowing images that generally would not be shown following similar disasters in the West.
We haven't told people the scale that @AWSIdentity works at before, but today we're disclosing that we authenticate and authorize over 400 million API calls EVERY SECOND. You guys gotta stop building stuff or we're going to run out of compute. 😅
"English manners were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game
What are people doing to be happy in these times? Nothing much. Most people do nothing special to feel happy. They don't have try too hard, they are just happy. In happiness they are not amateurs; they don’t over-articulate joy.
"Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages" is absolutely brilliant: it adds a virtual filesystem to SQLite-compiled-to-WebAssembly in order to fetch pages from the database using HTTP range requests
Watched this video about "Why dutch bicycles are better, ..." extolling their practicality. These are pretty much - Hercules Captain Shakti bikes - Rs.5000 ($67). with addons like dynamo (for lighting), & Frame Locks this would cost less $100.
"What if English had tones" - a quick and fun demonstration It is a lie that English is "simple". One can learn an English that is not useful elsewhere
Tones are usually the most difficult part about learning tonal languages like Chinese for us.