Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

RT @JohnFPfaff@twitter.com
This, from a pretty harsh review of Gladwell’s new book, is an EXCELLENT lesson on why you should always track down the original source of seemingly-unlikely statistics.

Because often secondary sources launder really bad counting.

The review is here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/when-malcolm-gladwell-says-nothing-at-all/597697/

RT @sadanduseless@twitter.com
Pulsing Umbilical Cord iPhone Charger by Japanese Designer Mio Izawa https://www.sadanduseless.com/weirdest-phone-charger-ever/

RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
Real-life coyotes are faster than real-life roadrunners.

RT @MeCookieMonster@twitter.com
Me just took a DNA test turns out me 100% cookies...

RT @HeidiStevens13@twitter.com
When is a girl simply learning chemistry? Or running/swimming/volleyballing her heart out? When is a girl just walking through the world, not the least bit interested in attracting the male gaze?

Never, in the minds of some grown-ups. Like this swim ref. https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-wednesday-swimmer-disqualified-suit-wedgie-0911-20190911-eginoua4ifhr5emhkxel6ky3ey-story.html

RT @juice3wavy@twitter.com
i just heard a wolf howl for the first time and i am CRYING... please listen

RT @sadanduseless@twitter.com
Simple But Clever Cartoons by Shanghai Tango https://www.sadanduseless.com/simple-but-clever-cartoons-gallery/

RT @mjbeers1@twitter.com
Today I asked our undergraduate course assistants what instructors have done that helps them learn, and what doesn’t help them learn. Here is what they said:

RT @sarahmei@twitter.com
Hey do you need any more examples of how software development is like writing instead of like math? Because I got a great one for you.

RT @catherineols@twitter.com
Wow, what a plot twist in the abstract! (@sandsubramanian@twitter.com et al)

RT @GenjitsuUsagi@twitter.com
@UrsulaV@twitter.com (See also: how the lady who sued over McDonald's coffee actually had a legitimate case, as she was hospitalized for over a week, needed skin grafts due to the burns, and was one of over 700 other coffee burn victims between '82-'92, with previous settlements of over $500k)

RT @UrsulaV@twitter.com
Hey, everybody here knows that the one woman who said the dingo ate her baby got exonerated years later, right? They found the kid’s clothes in a dingo den and the Australian government quietly freed her.

I feel like that got really overlooked.

RT @thedndbags@twitter.com
DM: "Ok, this mission requires stealth. How are you approaching?"

#DnD Players:

RT @AlexNBCNews@twitter.com
Rep @AOC@twitter.com asked if worried impeachment would fail in Senate: "if they want to fail it then I want to see every Republican go on the record and knowingly vote against impeachment, knowing his corruption, so that they can have that stain on their careers the rest of their lives."

RT @DickKingSmith@twitter.com
“Difficulties strengthen the mind as labour does the body.”
Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher (4BC-66AD.)

RT @LucyStats@twitter.com
☝️ Never too early to bring up the possibility of Simpson’s Paradox