#Discoveria @Discoveria - Twitter Profile

23 days ago

A BBC interviewer asked a Nobel physicist the simplest question in the world: why do two magnets push each other apart. He refused to answer it. What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed. The man is Richard Feynman, at home in 1983, no blackboard, no notes, sitting in an armchair. He does not dodge because he cannot answer. He dodges because he wants you to see what the question is actually asking. So he takes an ordinary sentence, that a woman slipped on the ice and broke her hip, and starts asking why, and every answer opens another why, until the ground gives way. Then he turns it around on the interviewer with a question about ice that sounds trivial and is not. The point he arrives at is the uncomfortable one. Every explanation is only a translation into something you already accept without explanation. Magnets have no such translation. There is nothing more familiar than magnetism to reduce magnetism to, which is why every answer you were given at school was a picture, not a reason. It matters more now than it did in 1983. Any tool will hand you a fluent answer in a second. Knowing which questions actually have a bottom is the part that is still yours. One question. Seven minutes. It is in the video.

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Chief Nwachinemelu 👑

@odogwu_ogidi

4 months ago

One thing you’ll notice when you move to the US is that they’re really hardworking. They have an excellent work ethic, and it is almost impossible to outwork them. Excellence is like a culture. You’d think you have a lot of work on their plate and you work hard back home, not until you arrive and see that the volume of your work will triple and you’re expected to finish with a short time frame. They type like machines. As you rise in the organisational position, so is your work load. However, in Nigeria, as you rise in the organisational position, your work load decreases, you’ll have a lot of time for meetings that yield no results, and be parading around with overinflated ego and inefficiency.

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Sean Sweeney

@seandsweeney

almost 2 years ago

My partner and I raised $11 million in equity and took out a $33 million construction loan to build Akin. 204-units. And 2 saunas. It was named best urban development in Minneapolis last year.

seandsweeney's tweet photo. My partner and I raised $11 million in equity and took out a $33 million construction loan to build Akin.

204-units. And 2 saunas.

It was named best urban development in Minneapolis last year. https://t.co/MFQcXKDDZS

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Everest

@novieverest

almost 2 years ago

"CNG is safer than PMS." "PMS car is more likely to explode than CNG car." Now that we have all seen the reality of a CNG explosion in Benin, everyone has gone offline.

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