Come sempre #BBC spiega con dovizia di particolari le situazioni e chiarisce come e perché #sinner sia da considerare totalmente innocente. Thanks BBC News (World) bbc.com/sport/tennis/a…

Short Films are required to be under 20 minutes or in some cases under 15 minutes This film is 3 minutes 53 seconds & still won the Oscar If you don’t watch this film you’re doing yourself an injustice If you don’t spread this film you’re doing everyone else an injustice

So many people have asked me for years "what is time?" I'm happy to have found a little, er, time to write a piece "On the Nature of Time" writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/10/on-the…

The children's guide to Entropy. Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the heat death of the universe. A thread, with pictures…

Marvin Minsky recalls how John Nash effortlessly solved his PhD problem

Another books give-away, this time a collection of translations of Greek and Latin classics! A generous reader donates the pamphlets owned by long-serving teacher Mary Hardwick. Ironically, schools once banned these books! Draw is on Wed. eve: RT and follow to throw your hat in!

80 anni a chiedersi come sia stato possibile l'avvento del nazismo: così, è stato possibile esattamente così. La camera a gas come correlativo oggettivo del gaslighting (che ti dice che quello che vedi non è quello che pensi). Ancora un pezzo potente di Assia Neumann Dayan La Stampa

Happy to share the link to my latest work co-authored with Carnazza, Liberati, and Torrini, recently published in Papers in Regional Science. In this paper, we describe the monetary flow between regions to finance healthcare mobility. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Now for our latest books give-away, the biggest for a while. 26 books on Latin & Greek literature, language & culture printed over the last 200 years (pics below). Draw open to all: just RT this message, follow us, and we will pick a random winner on Friday 22 Nov. Good luck all!

From 1986, John Cleese with What Have The BBC Ever Given Us?

English spelling is a cruel joke Why does ‘gh’ stay silent in “daughter” but sound like an ‘f’ in “laughter”? The thing is, English spelling is actually 100% logical — for the Middle Ages Here’s how the 'gh' sound disappeared from English, and left chaos in its wake…🧵

Yarden Bibas è finalmente a casa, ma sua moglie, Shiri, e i loro figli, Kfir e Ariel, non sono con lui. Siamo con Yarden e tutta la famiglia Bibas. 🟧 Facciamo diventare Twitter arancione, condividi questo per Yarden, Shiri, Kfir e Ariel.

Elon Musk attacked democracy defender and superstar court lawyer Marc Elias as “undermining civilization,” taunting him by asking if he suffered “generational trauma.” Elias’s response was brilliant and worth amplifying: Mr. Musk, You recently criticized me and another prominent

Con le parole di Isaac Bashevis Singer (Ombre sull’Hudson) Leonard Willie

Most people know Chaucer as a great poet. But he didn't just write "The Canterbury Tales" — he helped forge modern English. Here’s how one medieval poet paved the way for the language you're reading right now... (thread) 🧵

RETWEET if you stand with @Springsteen against Trump!

.⁦Victor DeLorenzo⁩ instagram.com/reel/DKqFggkoS…

The godfather of valuation dropped a 30-minute investing masterclass

“Our energy system, while high performing, is linked to 85% of CO2 emissions.” The net-zero transformation “is a physical one. We need to build things at massive scale, and we need to ensure that they work,” explains MGI Partner Mekala Krishnan. bit.ly/4leQA0K

Happy Birthday to Professor Roy Bittan! 🥳🫶🎹🎶 Racing from Philly N1 last year. Magic. ✨