Vero Chafrat

[Vero Chafrat @verochafrat]

@Nona_xai Skills

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

“Teachers who make physics boring are criminals”

Walter Lewin

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

In Thailand, elephants stop passing sugarcane trucks to collect a snack tax

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

“The vaccine doesn’t prevent COVID.”

Neither does a seatbelt prevent car crashes. It prevents you from dying in one.

The COVID vaccines were never sold as magical force fields. They were designed to train the immune system to blunt severity. And they did — dramatically. I wish they were a magic shield but they were not

When vaccination rates rose, hospitalization and death rates fell — even as cases surged with new variants. If the vaccines “did nothing,” the ICU curves would have moved in parallel between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.

They didn’t.

Protection against infection waned as the virus mutated. That’s virology. Coronaviruses evolve. So do influenza viruses. That is not scandal; that is biology. Esp RNA virus biology

But protection against severe disease held far better — and that is what determines whether hospitals overflow and morgues deploy refrigeration trucks.

The absolutist framing — “it doesn’t prevent COVID” — is rhetorical sleight of hand. It confuses “not perfect” with “not effective.”

Nothing in medicine is perfect.

The question is not whether breakthrough infections occur.

The question is whether you are less likely to end up intubated, hypoxic, or dead.

The data answered that clearly.

You may resent mandates.
You may dislike pharmaceutical companies.
But epidemiologic curves do not care about resentment.

They care about outcomes.

And the outcomes shifted.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Wait for it.. 😊

[David @David_eficaz]

Los descubrimientos más surrealistas del pasado que la gente ha encontrado 😲🔍

Algunos te dejarán sin palabras ...

1. Antes y después de la excavación del Estadio Griego Antiguo

[Jesús Osorio @jesus_osorior]

La Estación Espacial Internacional (ISS) orbita la Tierra 16 veces al día, capturando imágenes impresionantes de todo el mundo.

Sigue 🧵 para descubrir 20 de los mejores jamás tomadas

1 - Brasilia

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Parents 🧵

1.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

18. When you get older and realize that a magical childhood is the result of your parent’s effort

[David @David_eficaz]

¿Día gris? ¡Vamos a cambiarlo!

Este hilo tiene la fórmula para que vuelvas a sonreír.

1. Tu familia siempre será tu mayor apoyo ❤️

[David @David_eficaz]

7. El medallista paralímpico más joven de la India y el segundo arquero sin brazos en la historia en ganar una medalla paralímpica 1

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

20. They do now

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵

1. A cub looks at her mother with admiration

[Álvaro | IA @AbretuPotencial]

Os traigo 24 imágenes de los edificios más extraños y aterradores del mundo, que probablemente no hayas visto jamás.

Un hilo 🧵

1. Edificio de gran altura en Guizhou, China.

[David @David_eficaz]

8. Lo mejor de la humanidad: da cuando puedas.

Un hombre pide educadamente agua y a cambio le ofrecen algo más.

[TusMedios @tusmedios]

4. Señorita Insumergible

Violet Jessup, conocida como la "Señorita Insumergible", podría ser vista como alguien con una suerte increíble o como un mal presagio.

- Estuvo a bordo del HMS Olympic cuando chocó con el HMS Hawke.

- Sobrevivió al hundimiento del HMHS Britannic tras golpear una mina marina.

- También estuvo en el RMS Titanic cuando se hundió tras chocar con un iceberg.

Su increíble historial le valió este apodo único.

[Raghu @IndiaTales7]

Some Funny Pictures That Are Worth Stoping Whatever You’re Doing Right Now ~ A Thread 🧵

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Frameless exhibition London

The storm on the Sea of Galilee

[Jarett Wieselman @JarettSays]

I would watch a feature length documentary about the two women who voice The Minions in Italian