600 words on the corporatization of Southwest, the airline that never charged me for mimosas and always gave me a window seat. The end of SWA's free luggage policy will be the slaying slash in the year of death by a thousand private equity cuts.
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Researchers at Stanford and @TUeindhoven used 12 high-speed cameras and 2,176 microphones to identify the precise origin of the hummingbird’s namesake sound.
"Mindset is key. Your bedroom is a sanctuary, and not a place to go over the what-ifs." Stanford Medicine sleep expert Rafael Pelayo discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic can affect your sleep and what you can do to #sleep better. https://t.co/EeXEFMGIrr
Stanford scholar Johannes Eichstaedt has built an algorithm that can provide, in principle, a real-time indication of community well-being by analyzing social media posts. https://t.co/B5hordmVHc
My son's history class is learning about L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz (1900)—and the farm crisis of the 1890s, which underpins the narrative. And it occurred to me that many (especially outside of the West) may not know about this. So… We're off to see the Wizard! (THREAD)
All is calm, all is bright.
View of the Milky Way above Nevado Salkantay, in the heart of the Peruvian Andes. More winners from @StanfordEarth's 2019 photo contest: https://t.co/MrPvf3msIy
Starting today, Twitter will preserve JPEGs as they are encoded for upload on Twitter for Web. (Caveat, cannot have EXIF orientation)
For example: the attached photo is actually a guetzli encoded JPEG at 97% quality with no chroma subsampling.
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We live, right now, in the Good Place. Maybe the only Good Place. And we're turning it into a Bad Place.
Our climate series begins today with an amazing conversation with @DrKateMarvel. Don't miss it. https://t.co/jdsplnnBAE