Nick Brain

@KevinKaichuang How does that compare to professions in general? I’d expect more kids do profession ‘x’ if their parents did profession ‘x’ too. Profession is somewhat heritable - I was aware of science as a career because my dad was a scientist.

Both my parents and both my siblings have phds. My dad's a professor. My maternal grandfather never got a PhD but was an engineering professor. My paternal grandfather was a doctor. Basically I'm an academic nepobaby

@jimmyraymail @LNallalingham Divide all the numbers by ten, then, before you punch them into your calculator. You’ll get the same answer.

@LNallalingham I was going to try and work out what they are spending per desk or chair but my calculator doesn't go up to £11 million.

@charliersmith1 @parkrunUK I’m so sorry to hear it is so tough right now. Be damn proud of getting to parkrun! We’ve experienced with our daughter that when you’re way down, it takes all the energy you have to do the smallest things. Sending you props & hopefully a sense that in this world people care.

My mental health really isn’t great, and I’m finding leaving the house difficult, but I made it to @parkrunUK this morning and I’m proud of that! 😊

@FrogTape why so much plastic landfill for one roll of masking tape? Sort it out please. I’ll be avoiding your brand until your packaging enters the 21st century

@Lunatic__Fringe @VivekGRamaswamy Life saving drugs - not a joke. Trying to tweak a human’s very complex biochemistry very specifically w/out affecting anything else is just hard & you have one little molecule to do it with. Then throw in that we’re all different. 2 mile sniper shot is easy by comparison.

@VivekGRamaswamy "life-saving medicines"... that's a joke. Most pharmaceuticals don't do jack shit except cause side effects for which people are prescribed more pharmaceuticals.

A big reason why prescription drugs cost more in the U.S. than other developed nations is that the U.S. subsidizes innovation, while Europe free-rides on us. Here’s how it works: most life-saving medicines wouldn’t be developed unless U.S payers reimburse to compensate for risk & cost of development. Yet once it’s already approved in the U.S., the company has an incentive to make it available in Europe at a low marginal cost, even though the fixed cost of initial development was high. That’s how Europe arbitrages the U.S. by accessing the same medicines at lower cost. The details actually matter.

@Lunatic__Fringe @VivekGRamaswamy An oft repeated myth Bob. New drugs don’t get a licence (from gov) unless clinical trial evidence proves them safer/better than on-market drugs. Cancer drugs rightly get headlines on side effects - their job is to kill cancer cells that “look” v. like normal cells - it’s inexact

@realYubingHou @VivekGRamaswamy Aravind is right. Manufacture is not the cost problem to solve. R&D cost is + not all R&D programs successfully develop a new drug that is safer/better than what’s on market (a regulatory requirement) so new drug sales have to cover cost of R&D that does not find a new drug.

Just got a great deal on new car tyres @blackcircles - check them out at blackcircles.com /#buyblackcircles

@British_Airways BA994 LHR-BER - 2 hr wait for bags. Are they still at Heathrow?

@TEXTILE_FIBER Have you ever done a Western, Jay?

I say no, if you look deep they do not look the same, the more I look I see more differences

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@JFG_78 @MercedesAMGF1 You nailed it JFG. It wasn’t corruption. It was poor decision-making in pursuit of spectacle at expense of sport.

Team Statement - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

@sa6ampas @DavidVeillon5 @UniverCurious 😀 the shadows are on the wrong side of the objects. This is a CGI animation. Oh, and the sun shines in all directions 🤣

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round, he made me smile of the world he loved so much.

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