Recent threads

Instagram took down one of my posts for violating their rules on "hate speech." What was the thing I posted? A figure from @FondOfBeetles and @TLexercise's peer reviewed paper showing male advantage in certain sports activities.

The difference between a layman and an expert is astronomical. Thread 🧵 The average adult with no chess training will beat the average five year old with no chess training 100 games out of 100 under normal conditions.

Interesting op-ed on geoengineering today by @coralsncaves and @MichaelEMann. Unfortunately, I have to disagree with their suggestion that negative emissions technologies (NETs) are "unlikely to make a meaningful dent in atmospheric CO2". A thread: 1/14

Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings."

This is a history of the 1983 campaign against spiritual pollution in nine posts. It begins with the summertime crackdown on street crime and "hooliganism," Deng Xiaoping's purge of leftists, and the idea of spiritual civilization to replace revolutionary fervor.

5 Marriage Lessons I Learned The Hard Way So You Don’t Have To //THREAD//