Thomas Blackwood @followingdra@qoto.org
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South Africa to change constitution to legalize taking away white farmers' land — RT World News https://www.rt.com/news/434784-south-africa-amendemnt-land-expropriation/ 😱✡👮🤠
gtfo lol
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Replicability in social sciences.
Only 13 out of 21 (about 0.62) major studies of decade past (which were attempted to be replicated) were found replicable to significant (more than 0.75) extent.
Sample size used in replication was 5 times of the original studies. These replication efforts have been described as 'collaborative' as against 'hostile' efforts from earlier.
#MetaStudy #SocialScience #Research #Psychology #BiomedicalScience
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Why Technology Favors Tyranny
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907979
#hackernews #tech
Join Mastodon at https://halcyon.qoto.org/login/
I've moved to @followingdra on @Mastodon@twitter.com
RT @FollowingDrA@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FollowingDrA/status/1036719581883187200
RT @Teresa_H_@twitter.com: @FollowingDrA@twitter.com @tweet4luke@twitter.com @USA_ReEvolution@twitter.com @mastodon@twitter.com I signed up and I think I have successfully followed you. Am I supposed to join thei http://goto.org too? None of my other twitter friends have joined.
You were the only one who came up.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Teresa_H_/status/1036755596484198401
RT @pickover@twitter.com: Construction of a regular heptadecagon (17-sided polygon) using straightedge and compass. http://tinyurl.com/yd2thymn
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RT @Matsamon
Dear dumb white racists
Why don't you just donate the Nike stuff you own instead of burning it?
@TeresaH now following @chelmex_bot
RT @LieBusterSleuth@twitter.com: @cynthiamckinney@twitter.com @chelmex@twitter.com And here we go again, just like with Iraq WMD. In 2014, US/Russia oversaw complete destruction of Assad's CWs. Now US is backtracking, even though US has trained terrorists on how to make and use CWs. We also know White Helmets staged CW attacks to blame on Assad. US #Pretext
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LieBusterSleuth/status/1036784133027127296
RT @LdyDrums@twitter.com: @sarahabed84@twitter.com @chelmex@twitter.com @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com No more wars for the benefit of corporatists and their personal strategic gains. These people are using us. Enough.
RT @sahouraxo@twitter.com: Syria continues rising from the ashes and the mainstream media’s coverage is nowhere to be found: The St. George Orthodox Church in Syria’s ancient, Aramaic-speaking town of Maaloula is being rebuilt more than 4 years after it was destroyed by jihadists. https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/locals-begin-reconstruction-of-historical-church-destroyed-by-jihadist-rebels-in-maaloula/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1036721060773806080
RT @chelmex@twitter.com: @LdyDrums@twitter.com @Teresa_H_@twitter.com @Matsamon@twitter.com I am only advocating giving them to a non profit - not destroying perfectly good shoes. NIKE already have the money.....
RT @PaulCraigRobert@twitter.com: The entirety of the Western World lives in lies fomented by powerful economic interest groups to serve their interests. There is no independent media except online, and those elements are being demonized and denied access. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/08/21/genocide-of-the-greek-nation/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PaulCraigRobert/status/1036581638082322432
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#introduction Hi. I had written an earlier post but it lacked details. So a grad student in physics, with applications in (macro-)economics. Have my fingers in lots of pies: Pyrotechnics, Science popularization, Freelance on machine learning and deep learning. Like to learn new languages - computer and human. Interested in new pedagogical techniques and/or bringing teaching into the 21st century. Looking to discuss on any/every topic under the sun. Good day!
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In 1955 the new General Building Regulation came into effect. The previous one in 1929 was the one that actually blessed the creation of the #multiresidence by establishing what we say "horizontal ownership" i.e. the possibility to own just an apartment. This one is the one that actually defined how the city looks like since it was in effect during the construction of the majority of multiresidences.
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Radiohacktive
My research involves quantifying trace, toxic, particulate matter with neutron activation analysis. This is the neutron generator I use to irradiate air sampled filters, which are then analyzed by gamma spectroscopy.
Deuterium gas feeds into the magnetron on the left, which is ionized into plasma. The plasma strikes a deuterium film target in the chamber on the right, producing helium and a neutron beam. Aluminum then moderates the beam to thermal energy.
@TeresaH good to see you here.
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@rohan I work on a bunch of different issues, hence the reason I’m a philosopher 😉 Right now, I’m finishing some stuff on the social sculpting of attention, and the way that shapes how we see the world; but that will develop into a project on the generation of cultural variations, and what it takes for them to stabilize. So it will end up much closer to cultural evolution shortly...
What are you working on right now?
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Hi all, I'm an experimental psychologist in the Anthro dept at Oxford. I study the evolution of culture, and rituals are my play thing. I'm interested in memory, action perception, belief, and development. Say hi :)
Joined Sep 2018
