Science & Research Threads

@Mylovanov

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On April 13, 2022 a Neptune operator picked up a target on radar 120 km away. He had minutes to decide: fire or not. Nobody could confirm the target. Bayraktars refused to fly. He pressed launch. UP tells the story of how Ukraine sank the cruiser Moskva four years ago. 1/ ...

@CharlesMullins2

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🚨 BREAKING: Scientists just taught plastic to split light like a spectrometer. Read that again. Researchers created 10×10 micrometer optical structures in thermoplastic polymers that can split light into rich spectral signals without moving parts, without external tuning, and across a huge range: ...

@FoundationDads

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José Ortega y Gasset watched Europe triple its population in a single century and asked: What happens when the average man, raised in unprecedented comfort, decides he owes *nothing* to the civilization that made his life possible? His answer, written in 1930, predicted the exact world we live in...

@hjluks

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Pain on the outside of your shoulder is also one of the most common problems I see in my practice. Lifters get it. Swimmers get it. Pickleball players get it. People who haven't lifted their arm overhead in years get it. For decades, we called it impingement and blamed a bone spur. That led to man...

@varabovskiy

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@GoldenSaka @arachosiaa @krjeonxueid @pianopidaras6 @RJR_2003 @Anuvamshiki Researchers often draw conclusions based on facts pulled out of thin air. There's no reason to believe these guys were conquered, lol. The conquered and humiliated became the supreme rulers of the Xiongnu ?))...

@MaxCRoser

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This thread is more personal than most of the things I share here, but I’m at my limit with Jason Hickel. I want to explain why I dislike him so much and how we got here. This is a personal story over several years so it’ll take a bit of time....

@nxt888

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The sanctions playbook was rehearsed on Vietnam. After the war, the U.S. blocked Vietnam from the IMF, the World Bank, and virtually every major international financial institution. It maintained a trade embargo that isolated the Vietnamese economy for two decades. It pressured other countries to...

@VinceClassic

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These articles we get every 6 months or so from The New Yorker or The Atlantic, by some very well-meaning and compassionate writer named Adam Gopnik or David “Brooks” are demoralization campaigns. It always “gee why can’t we ‘shake’ Jesus? (since he’s absolutely not God, btw), But hey, this isn’t an...