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New York, NY Sumali Mayıs 2009
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Capacity is a false metric and everyone knows it. Germany has 300% more capacity than 15 years ago yet 20% less electricity and 100% higher cost.
Peter H. Diamandis, MD@PeterDiamandis
The US is on track to add 86 GW of new power capacity in 2026... 51% of that will come from SOLAR. Energy transition is happening.
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@ScienceBlogs @razibkhan You mean Erhlich was the one with the goatee.
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Medicine is the only profession where people willingly give up their youth to study for twelve years beyond high school while accumulating interest on $300K worth of student debt, only to be told they’re:
1) Pharma Shills
2) Doing it all wrong
3) Unsafe without supervision from folks with a fraction of the training
As thanks, Doctors work nights, weekends & holidays, pay thousands out of pocket for ever increasing “merit badges” like “maintenance of certification”…
And still have to ask for permission to prescribe drugs or perform a procedure….from people who aren’t at the bedside.
Those bureaucrats also give them 10-15 minutes to spend with each patient, while documenting minutiae that is completely irrelevant to care.
They top off the week with uncompensated documentation time so hospitals can make more money off of their work.
God forbid they prescribe an opioid…
That’s career ending.
Liza Lockwood@DrLizaMD
Let them practice medicine without Monday morning quarter backing from administrators, insurance companies, malpractice lawyers, the academy & the state. It’s a perfect storm for the medical profession. At the moment, doctors have all of the liability and none of the autonomy to treat patients.
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How long until the EU admits that banning GMOs was a choice and in hindsight, it was a strategic mistake.
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Tell us you've never lived in New York City or San Francisco without telling us you've never lived in New York City or San Francisco.
summer ☀️@ughitssummer
americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape
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It's got an air of truthiness but is based on an offhand claim by someone who wrote a book saying that conversations lead them to believe that.
Kevin Pho, M.D.@kevinmd
85 to 90 percent of women physicians share ONE surprising childhood trait. They are eldest daughters. Raised to over-function. Expected to carry the burden. Conditioned to never ask for help. Medicine does not just attract this trait. The entire healthcare system secretly relies on it. And it is fast-tracking massive burnout. Are you a doctor because of your training, or because you have been doing it your whole life? Let's talk about the Eldest Daughter Burden. Link to this recent episode is in the comments 👇 #MedTwitter #WomenInMedicine #PhysicianBurnout
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Man scientists confirm that a man getting kicked in the balls once is basically like giving birth 160 times.
Sure the dol scale has never been considered scientific and only goes to 10.5, but it's man pain we're talking about, so it's orders of magnitude greater than women feel.
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At some point, we need to consider that sociologists are just saying this stuff on a dare to see which journalists bite.
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Not doing well? Psychologists were the leading demographic for DSM 5 getting expanded beyond repair.
Barbara fringe psychologist@12PursueTruth
Autism: “The spectrum has become so accommodating that I fear that it has now been stretched so far that it has become meaningless and is no longer useful as a medical diagnosis.” Problem is that psychologists, and increasingly a flood of master’s level therapists have come to rely on the autism diagnosis to support their practice. Their livelihood. I suspect schools face a similar reliance on autism diagnoses for extra funding. Furthermore: Parents love it because their child gets extra services. Students love it because it makes them special. Drug companies love it because they profit from drugs. Psychologists are supposed to be the gatekeepers on diagnoses, but we are not doing very well at it.
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LA giving out Marathon participation trophies is the most California thing we'll read today.
Matthew Seedorff@MattSeedorff
NEW: Runners in the Los Angeles Marathon will be able to stop at mile 18 and still receive a finisher medal this weekend. Organizers say it’s an option for participants who are having a tough race day.
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Universities lobbied to make student loans unlimited. And it worked. Schools that had become for rich dumb kids were suddenly swimming in money because anyone could go.
Tuitions doubled every 9 years.
Now students are swimming in debt, for degrees like Philosophy of Biology.
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And because it can never be science, so it should do what it does rather than adopt too many trappings. Sociologists understand that.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill
Sociology has been slow to adopt emerging standards of scientific rigor, in large part because of its strong political skew and embrace of activism over accuracy. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/the-worlds-f…
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Powerful: Texas A&M wide receiver KC Concepcion on why he decided to talk to the media at the NFL combine despite having a stutter.
“I want to be a role model for those who are not able to speak in front of large crowds.”
KC is a true role model ❤️👏
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The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @RetractionWatch: retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/can…
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Women with breast cancer who use alternative medicine instead of conventional therapy have survival rates no better than getting NO treatment at all.
But women who did BOTH also did worse.
A thread on a sobering new study. 🧵
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If this was true, it would actually be buried and not sold by 10,000 supplement grifters on the internet.
Jake Pearson@JakePearson303
Imagine a weapon for your brain and body, discovered over a century ago, that was so effective they had to bury it. It was too cheap to be profitable. It's time to add that forgotten weapon back to your arsenal. It's called Methylene Blue. Here’s how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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You can't make this stuff up.
Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙@AlpacaAurelius
Ladies, you need to be wearing cotton underwear. Polyester underwear on dogs tanked their progesterone 90 PERCENT from 50 ng/ml to 5 ng/ml...and 75% of them couldn't get pregnant. Polyester creates an electrostatic field that disrupts hormone production 100% cotton only if you want babies
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HR department had already done the early version of AI sloppifying of recruitment so it's hard to blame AI for doing it back.
Might as well blame LinkedIn.
Jerusalem@JerusalemDemsas
Prime-age employment has fully recovered from the pandemic and is near all-time highs. By this measure, the labor market looks great. So why does finding a job feel impossible? In @besttrousers(!!) debut for @TheArgumentMag, he argues that AI is doing to the hiring market what Tinder did for the dating market. theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder-i…
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