Gerard Escher

@neiltyson It's astonishing how few people understand this. They see some cool product innovation and think the underlying technology just appeared out of thin air. They don't realize how it's built on academic research from 10, 20, or 30 years prior, most often funded by government grants

Over 2,000 years prior to the #French Revolution's Rights of Man, an Ancient Near #Eastern ruler proclaimed human rights in what's now called the Cyrus #Cylinder. ancient-origins.net/artifacts-anci…

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Printemps 1946, vers Abda, en Hongrie, des paysans exhument les cadavres d'une fosse commune pour trouver de l'or sur les corps. Parmi les morts, un homme est découvert avec un carnet dans la poche de son manteau émietté. Il s'appelle Miklós Radnóti. ⬇️

The operational launch ceremony of the #OpenQuantumInstitute is full speed ahead! Hosted by @CERN, born @GESDAglobal, supported by @UBS, the #OQI enters its new, 3-year pilot phase to help unleash the full power of #quantumcomputing for the benefit of all: home.cern/news/news/comp…

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1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:

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The UAE Minister of AI @OmarSAlolama points to a historical precedent of premature technology regulation motivated by fear: the ban of the printing press in 1515 by Sultan Selim I led to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. “We overregulated a technology, which was the printing press. It was adopted everywhere on Earth. The Middle East banned it for 200 years. The calligraphers came to the sultan and said: ‘We’re going to lose our jobs, do something to protect us’—so, job loss protection, very similar to AI. The religious scholars said people are going to print fake versions of the Quran and corrupt society—misinformation, second reason. It was fear of the unknown that led to this fateful decision." google.com/amp/s/fortune.…

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Estonie 🇪🇪

🚨🗺 Thread extrêmement important de mèmes et calembours cartographiques Et on commence avec un grand classique : le Venezuela 🇻🇪

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Nouveau thread sur les graffiti de Pompéi, sur un sujet encore subtil et délicat, au cœur des fondements invariables de l'humanité : insultes, malédictions et imprécations dans le monde romain, ou l'art de l'injure antique ! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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L’agroforesterie, ce n’est pas seulement planter des arbres ou des haies pour améliorer la biodiversité, couper le vent, etc. C’est associer des arbres, sous toutes leurs formes, à des cultures, avec pour objectif un rendement accru. Un thread arboricole 1/17 🔽🔽🔽

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Here is my method to conduct (and automate) a literature review. Using Google Scholar, @scite , @litmaps , #ChatGPT, @zotero and @obsdmd. Tutorial with examples and best practices: 👇

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A massively inconvenient truth for some people. As of reporting date June 19th 2022, of all the countries analysed by the OECD, Sweden (who rejected lockdowns, masks and school closures) had the lowest overall cumulative excess deaths total over the pandemic period.

Amazing that 3 of the top 10 ranked synthetic biology #synbio teams (out of 356) at the international #iGEM2022 competition are from universities in #Switzerland - @EPFL_en, @unil & @UZH_en.

@pdfmakerapp grab twitter.com/TerreTerre13/s…

Voici un organoïde, amas de cellules en développement issu de cellules souches. Ici, des cellules lacrymales qui reproduisent la structure des glandes du même nom, avec des canaux etc.

This 40-second solar eclipse seen from the surface of Mars is sublime arstechnica.com/science/2022/0…