Marc Cordero

Currently denying that my hair is in fact bigger than my dreams

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

At 3:45, as the transplant team was prepping the OR, a doctor came to Carole's room. She had terrible news. @Cigna, Carole's insurance company, had just denied her claim. They'd made a mistake, they said, in initially approving the procedure. They were now refusing to pay for it.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Whenever they tell you it can't be done in the modern age, show them Dresden.

What's been achieved in Dresden is the most inspiring architectural feat for decades. Everything you see in the bottom image was built, from scratch, in the last 20 years.

The city was a gem of German Baroque architecture, completely levelled by Allied bombings during WW2 - more than 80% of the buildings in the historic city center were either damaged or totally destroyed.

Heartbreakingly, the wonderful Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) lay in rubble for decades, under the East German communist regime which refused to rebuild it. It was left in a pile as a "memorial against war" for 50 years. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, the people endeavored to bring it back.

Work began in 1993 to piece the church back together, brick by brick; every stone in the pile was sorted and carried off to be analyzed. Except for the brand new dome, it was reconstructed using as much original stone as possible, to the exact specifications of the original (as much as could be pieced together from old photographs).

The work took 11 years, and in 2005, the Frauenkirche was reconsecrated - rising like a phoenix from the ashes. It was finished one year ahead of schedule and just in time for the city's 800-year anniversary celebrations.

In a remarkable gesture, the gilded orb and cross atop the new dome were crafted by an English goldsmith - whose father partook in the bombing of the city in 1945.

[Marc Cordero @cordero_marc]

@pauntuff @Culture_Crit Minecraft house

[Marc Cordero @cordero_marc]

Tw11ter

[Marc Cordero @cordero_marc]

@Culture_Crit Check the basilica in DC, even grander

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

@stclairashley I think there are gas stations in Texas bigger than this

[🆇 @8000XY]

@DovySimuMMA excellent

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike.

Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

And the biggest perspective shift for me here is...we shouldn't be asking whether we should be doing geoengineering...we already are, we have been for a century. We should be asking...should take a huge step and do it intentionally and thoughtfully...because WE CAN SEE IT WORKS.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

SO2 actually (very temporarily) cools things down by seeding clouds and creating sulfuric acid aerosols. That's not, like, /good/, but by making more clouds (and also decreasing the size of droplets in clouds, and thus increasing their number) more sunlight is reflected to space.

[Marc Cordero @cordero_marc]

@tomaspueyo Is calling this The Tibet minimizing Tibetan autonomy?

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

Having read the indictment (4x's now), the amount & type of classified information Trump took, hid, did not secure, and refused to give back is, IMHO, gobsmacking.

Many analysts have called them "war plans." I doubt any documents fit into that specific contingency category. 2/

[bleedingedge.ai @bleedingedgeai]

Google announces Dreamix: a model that generates videos when given:
- video + prompt (Video editing)
- input images + prompt (Subject Driven Generation)
- input image + prompt (Image-toVideo

[Alison Burke @TiredActor]

Happy 2 year anniversary to when I was sleep deprived and decided to post this at 2 am on New Year’s Day