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“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

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My new words for you: (Time Flies, but It Should Fly to Recycle Our Suffering and Tears — Otherwise, Humanity Would Remain Forever Wounded) gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/time-flies...

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Fascinating interview: "Fundamentally, I think businesses and countries and governments should really always be asking themselves what are the futures that are being built with these technologies, and are these the futures that our populations want to live in."

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Saw someone make the point that if you really wanted to increase the birth rate, you’d destigmatize single motherhood, improve women’s wages, & set up social programs including health care for support. But that’s not actually what they want, so never mind.

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Sudoku 1’52”

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Important thread. Please share :)

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“We have a new idea” “Nobody’s ever tried this before!” “We’re totally going to win elections with this one” drumroll “We’re anti-black!”

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Incidentally, this is one reason why teaching is really hard. Not only do you need to understand the concepts, you have to be able to explain the ideas clearly to people who don’t know any of it. If you expect them to already understand it, you’re not teaching.

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If you talked to me about theoretical physics in jargon, I will understand words you’re using like “the” or “and”, but otherwise, it’ll be a stretch. I’m a relatively intelligent person who’s been reading since preschool. It won’t be due to possessing a low reading level or inability to think.

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This is probably a hill I will die on because I’ve been fighting it for a very long time & people are tied to doing things in a way that obscures what they’re doing rather than illuminates it.

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One of the things I had to do professionally because I was writing for laypeople was replace all of the jargon with terms they could understand or define everything clearly. I didn’t dumb anything down. I provided clarity. There’s a difference. Huge issue with academic writing.

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Been reading Mary Midgley lately & this is a point of hers. We can’t all be experts on everything. When we use technical jargon, we run the risk of people then turning to LLMs to simplify it, if it’s a field they don’t know. Not understanding technical jargon is not the same as low reading level.

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Wordle in 4. ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ ⬜️⬜️🟩⬜️🟩 🟨⬜️🟩⬜️🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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"It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone, or any other important thing -- and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others." —Mark Twain, in a letter to Helen Keller

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“Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.” —Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong : The Power of Mathematical Thinking

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Would actually do this. If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the puppet show, fella.

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If it were a Republican/Democrat thing, explain Bush on your own chart. 🙃

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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

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The flip side of this is an actual power-company employee could visit someone’s house to, say, check on a gas leak, and the frightened people inside won’t answer the doorbell.

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“Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat.”

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remember, kids, it's not really accessibility if you have to ask for it

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“[Among] animal species, it is Homo sapiens that gives an exceptional amount of time and attention to his sexual life. For most species, a brief mating season & a simple instinctive pattern make of it a seasonal disturbance with a definite routine …”

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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.” —Carl Jung

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Sorry when I sent a draft for "feedback" I meant "praise." Should have been more clear.

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Current mood:

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“We do not just have to verify our hypotheses carefully, but also to form them intelligently. As they are bound to tie up with matters that we do not know yet, & indeed with the general structure of human thought, this requires collaboration.” 1/2

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Reduce demand. Just because there’s a supply doesn’t mean you’re required to access or use it. #RandomThought

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