Can't remember who it was on here who recommended #Radiolab podcast to me, but once again, thankyou 🙏!
This piece on the old-new or perhaps new-old fight against antibiotic resistance is awesome.
In this 2015 episode of #RadioLab Robert and Jad speak to Carl Zimmer about the traditional lines between life and non-life, introducing viruses the size of cellular microbes. #Virus#Virology#MegaVirus#MimiVirus
The story of #SciHub and its founder Alexandra Elbakyan in her fight against the global network of academic journals that underlie published scientific research.
Boebert and Trump. We have gone from the media turning a blind eye to politicians’ misconduct, to the media reporting on every little thing no matter how small, and the public has gone from outrage to not really giving a damn. As result, behavior that used to disqualify candidates from office is now shrugged off by politicians and the public.
Learned from this #Radiolab episode that Wubi is a huge technological and linguistic achievement, extremely efficient. I wondered why I never learned it and only know pinyin. Turns out if you force people to type in pinyin it makes them rely on Mandarin.
I find pinyin inefficient and as someone who speaks southern Chinese languages before Mandarin, it can be hard to spell correctly all the time. Also it makes me forget how to write characters