Sumit Karkamkar

[David Orr @orrdavid]

I had someone translate the first three chapters. What a strong opener:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you visit the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome, you can contemplate the ceiling throug a mirror. Notably, Andrea Pozzo painted it in XVIII century with a trompe-l'œil technique. The ceiling is not a cupola, but it's flat

[📹 Roberto Celestri]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What Albert Einstein wrote in February 1950 is possibly another of the great equations he devised. This one's possibly about the survival of humankind.

[read more: https://t.co/dgOqYNvOjZ]

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

BS Busting DuJour
We cannot scientifically measure happiness and make cross-cultural comparisons. But we can measure and compare the suicide rate, which happens to be high in these "happy" places.
Never trust claims by psychologists.

[Nathan 🔎 @NathanpmYoung]

god is dead and the most efficient way to pack 17 squares into a square killed him

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When a 6.8 earthquake hit Olympia, Washington in 2001, a shop owner found that a sand-tracing pendulum drew weird squiggly lines. Scientists believe the pendulum recorded the seism & the central patterns were formed during the quake's most intense trembles https://t.co/hmyxQ46b9G

[juan @juanbuis]

incredible how the french have truly *perfected* the art of striking

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

squeezing in some light reading in ukraine’s trenches
catching up on ‘the road to unfreedom,’ naturally

[Hanno Lustig @HannoLustig]

if you're long in crypto, you're praying now that some defined benefit pension funds out there have levered up in crypto.

[Michael Dell 🇺🇸 @MichaelDell]

Win or lose, respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

In a Pythagorean tree, every color is equally represented, because a² + b² = c²

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Gottfried Leibniz (1701)

[Hanno Lustig @HannoLustig]

using more QE to reverse capital losses of pension funds who need liquidity to meet margin calls on their interest rate hedges, which the funds put in place because of QE lowering bond yields so much the funds could no longer just use the bonds themselves to do duration matching

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

You will shocked to know this article is not even a month old.

Sterling is at its weakest ever! Gilts are in free fall. FTSE is collapsing. Investors will be forced to sell British assets. UK is facing a balance of payment crisis. And IMF bailout looks a certainty

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

Imp🧵using high-quality research by Prof. Babones shows international rankings of India's democracy r BIASED. He is author of "Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research", std. source for statistical analysis of international comparisons. So, he is a QUALIFIED EXPERT 1/n

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

The last time stocks dropped this much, Tony Faucci was about to lock down the world

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

Amidst the US recession, #Thread to understand how India was +vely different in its Covid policy. @paulkrugman says "Take it as given that large fiscal stimulus and Fed complacency allowed the U.S. economy to get overheated." 1/n

[Sam Altman @sama]

the cultural arc over the past few years from wokism to pessimism to nihilism is racist, sucks, and doesn’t even matter anyway