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Fun science🧪 thread ⬇️
Not all peace-time project aims were innocent…
The Brits wanted those sci-fi-style death rays 🤓
There’s a lot of worry about innocent aims going rogue. Sometimes things work the other way, with lethal aims yielding a not lethal, but useful, product ⬇️
Not all peace-time project aims were innocent…
The Brits wanted those sci-fi-style death rays 🤓
There’s a lot of worry about innocent aims going rogue. Sometimes things work the other way, with lethal aims yielding a not lethal, but useful, product ⬇️
This is a tale of how the search for the death ray led to something less deadly, but equally useful.
In the 1930s, the air minister offered £1,000 to the inventor, "‘who could demonstrate the killing of a sheep at a range of 100 yards" using radio waves. 🧵
In the 1930s, the air minister offered £1,000 to the inventor, "‘who could demonstrate the killing of a sheep at a range of 100 yards" using radio waves. 🧵
June 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Fun science🧪 thread ⬇️
Not all peace-time project aims were innocent…
The Brits wanted those sci-fi-style death rays 🤓
There’s a lot of worry about innocent aims going rogue. Sometimes things work the other way, with lethal aims yielding a not lethal, but useful, product ⬇️
Not all peace-time project aims were innocent…
The Brits wanted those sci-fi-style death rays 🤓
There’s a lot of worry about innocent aims going rogue. Sometimes things work the other way, with lethal aims yielding a not lethal, but useful, product ⬇️
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Every decent, thinking person should be furious. This is state-sanctioned abuse masquerading as science.
Trump and RFK Jr. just handed a government vaccine study to a man who practiced unlicensed medicine on autistic kids, pushed banned, dangerous treatments, and lied about vaccines.
Trump and RFK Jr. just handed a government vaccine study to a man who practiced unlicensed medicine on autistic kids, pushed banned, dangerous treatments, and lied about vaccines.
Head of New RFK Jr. Vaccine Study Practiced Unlicensed Medicine on Autistic Kids
The man tapped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run a clinical trial looking to tie vaccines to autism has been charged with practicing medicine without a license, given...
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April 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Every decent, thinking person should be furious. This is state-sanctioned abuse masquerading as science.
Trump and RFK Jr. just handed a government vaccine study to a man who practiced unlicensed medicine on autistic kids, pushed banned, dangerous treatments, and lied about vaccines.
Trump and RFK Jr. just handed a government vaccine study to a man who practiced unlicensed medicine on autistic kids, pushed banned, dangerous treatments, and lied about vaccines.
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We read this at our Seder.
April 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
We read this at our Seder.
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📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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January 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚
🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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My 2025 resolution is to write threads for papers authored by the Language Development Dept here at MPI for Psycholinguistics. The 3rd in the series: Gesture screening in young infants: Highly sensitive to risk factors for communication delay, Alcock et al 1/
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Gesture screening in young infants: Highly sensitive to risk factors for communication delay
Introduction Children's early language and communication skills are efficiently measured using parent report, for example, communicative development inventories (CDIs). These have scalable potential...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My 2025 resolution is to write threads for papers authored by the Language Development Dept here at MPI for Psycholinguistics. The 3rd in the series: Gesture screening in young infants: Highly sensitive to risk factors for communication delay, Alcock et al 1/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...