Marius Arva

Legal advisor

[Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan]

I was asked by @EngelsbergIdeas to write about someone in history whom we should know more about. I chose Anna Komnene https://t.co/rhR7VV95Wv

[Marius Arva @marius_arva]

Somebody To Love (w/ Intro and Dialogue) by Jefferson Airplane. https://t.co/LzY7Nle0aI

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

Top 5 Things To Do After You are Dead

1) Inspire
2) Comfort
3) Educate
4) Provide good memories
5) Be an example of how to live well

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"The odds of an academic "researcher" producing anything eventually used by society is of the order of .00001%. That includes scientists. The odds for a baker: 100%" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[CatoTheYounger @catoletters]

Aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary ~ H.L. Mencken

[UN Dispatch @undispatch]

IR Nerds!

We created this list of podcast episodes categorized by topics commonly found on International Relations syllabi.

It's a free resource for professors, students + global affairs enthusiasts of all stripes.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Amazing how billionaires will give away 0.014% of their wealth to charity, and it will get reported and praised by newspapers across the country. It's almost enough to make you think newspapers act as a propaganda vessel for the ruling class, rather than informing the people.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Protip: when playing Monopoly, if you work together as a team and agree to not charge rent, all the players can become wealthy and successful by going around the board forever.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

It's important to learn your logical fallacies so you can give the same shallow argument in a more annoying fashion.

[David Millard Haskell @DMillardHaskell]

Study finds 25% of university student do not possess numeracy & literacy skills adequate to function in the workplace and 45% just reach minimum standard. When lectures focus more on "ideology you must believe" than on "facts you should know" this happens.
https://t.co/w4WQsN23wN

[Norm Macdonald @normmacdonald]

I'm thankful for women, the greatest creatures on earth. Because, without women, there would be no cookies.

[Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire]

CFP: "Please submit an abstract of 300 words--"
Me:

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Tonight was the night 100 years ago the Bolsheviks, on Lenin's orders, awoke ex-tsars Nicholas II, Alexandra & their 5 teenaged children, &, led them into a cellar where w barbaric ineptitude, they killed them all. #Romanovs

[Marius Arva @marius_arva]

Q: How do you achieve optimum temperature in a public institution during winter time?
A: You open up the windows and the heaters at full potential.
#economization

[Scotland Yard CSI- The Darkroom #Memoir #TrueCrime @ScotlandYardCSI]

You're Not Laughing Enough, and That's No Joke

The average four-year-old laughs 300 times a day. The average 40-year-old? Only four.

How About You?

https://t.co/lQHqguwxWW #laughter #MentalHealth #StressReduction

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

People have the illusion that "globalism" is good for commerce. It is mainly good for commerce by large crony corporations, creating fragility & winner-take-all effects.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

How many monkeys with typewriters would it take to rework Shakespeare in a gender-neutral form by this time next year?

And where can I source a large number of progressive monkeys with typewriters? I'll explain later.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

The Universal Declaration of #HumanRights was drawn up in 1948 by a world wounded by war. "Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind." https://t.co/WkEK5IyXWN #StandUp4HumanRights