we should return alcatraz island to the coastal miwok and encourage them to develop it into a gangster-themed casino
it's what the inmates would've wanted
Tom Kuhn was my colleague at MIT, a lovely man, but the massive popularity of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions entrenched the pernicious idea that science (& intellectual inquiry more generally) lurches between incommensurable "paradigms" & cannot pursue truth. Filmmaker Erroll Morris defends objectivity in recalling "Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me." https://t.co/lYpxUPYyRs
There is an interesting story to tell about land conservation, forestry, global carbon markets, and lands threatened by tonight's growth on the #ShellyFire, (captured by @ALERTCalifornia . 23:00 - 7/6/24) 1/x
You'll ask GPT-5 a question and it'll get back to you seven years later, extremely depressed, having answered a totally different question by developing a novel and incoherent theory that will be debunked when it turns out a single decimal point was misplaced in an obscure line of R
While the chances for survival were nil, my dad was convinced by doctors to enroll in one clinical trial after another. He called the final one “murder”, right before he was admitted to the ICU.
Thankfully we got him out on his final day on Earth to die at home with his family.
This was very much the case with my father’s diagnosis and treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, also at Stanford. I wish we had someone like @DrCaseysKitchen to help us navigate the system.
“You are recommending an invasive diagnostic procedure that would under no scenario extend her life more than a couple of months and risk my mom dying alone in a hospital room?” @DrCaseysKitchen on America’s broken healthcare system. https://t.co/q2VlCdPOIa
#OnThisDay 1844 @RoyalNavy directed that Larboard be replaced by the word Port to refer to the left side of a ship. Larboard came from ladeboard (loading) which was usually done on the left as the steering oar or 'Steerboard' was on the right, later and still known as Starboard.
Someone thought the spectrum of a movie could be a good idea. And it is: this is the average colour of each frame of several films
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