"Cuando te mueres, no sabes que estás muerto, no sufres por ello, pero es duro para el resto. Lo mismo pasa cuando eres imbécil" (Albert Einstein, por lo visto)
"I'll be a Christian, the left-wing religion that right-wing people inexplicably love. Maybe I could go the other way. I could be a Muslim, the right-wing religion that left-wing people inexplicably love." - Ahir Shah (@AhirShah) on choosing a religion.
Striking images can make scientific ideas accessible to people from all walks of life. But some such pictures do more damage than good, seeding confusion & fueling widespread misconceptions of an essential topic. Two iconic images & (mis)understanding evolution — a thread...1/10
"Solo me dedico a plantar árboles: sé que soy demasiado viejo y que no disfrutaré de sus frutos ni de su sombra, pero no veo una manera mejor de ocuparme del porvenir” https://t.co/Wxsq7Ms2JP a través de @el_pais
En 1838, Charles Darwin llegó a casa con la compra y comprobó que le habían vendido canela y orégano caducados.
Volvió a la tienda para hacer, en teoría, la devolución de las especias.
Pero se hizo un lío, y el resto es historia.
Some stats on the importance of accuracy of antibody tests for Coronavirus:
1/7 Let us say that a test of whether you have had the Coronavirus, and have built up immunity, or have not had it, and have no immunity, is 90% accurate.
Research in Applied Memetics. False news spreads 6 times faster than true. Obviously not BECAUSE it’s false. Does some other quality make it both spreadable & false? I think it might be “thermodynamic”: many ways of being false & only 1 way of being true
https://t.co/Mt3BMI1vXs