Oliver Morton

RT @johnkonrad: My respect for the French Navy grows daily. Just look at this beautiful oiler https://t.co/tfHkl8VuJ7

RT @gunsnrosesgirl3: the sum of odd numbers is a square. https://t.co/z34QXTyRmB

RT @AnshelPfeffer: Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar just filed his deposition to the Supreme Court against Netanyahu’s attempt to fire him. The no…

RT @Jim_Cornelius: Slug and Lettuce obviously.

RT @ItsNeverYou22: This was the last photo I ever took with my little boy, Hugh. He was just 6. Just 18 days later, cancer stole him from u…

RT @blockgraze: what the fuck are we doing here man https://t.co/yiiySM12ta

RT @Kasparov63: Remember, every "mistake" is a test.

RT @DegreesNGO: “What Degrees exists to do is to provide developing countries with the wherewithal to study and develop opinions on solar g…

RT @Leena_LiveNow: @DegreesNGO @Eaterofsun @weplanetint Regional insights into solar geoengineering are crucial! 🌍 How are local challenges…

RT @ArmsControlWonk: This is a nice illustration of how satellite instruments work -- you can see that there are three lower resolution col…

RT @SpaceBasedFox: Awesome pic of a Starlink sat photobombing a Google Earth image. Relative velocity was so high that the chromatic aberra…

I think the best defence (only a relative one) of hereditary peers was given to one of them by Tony Benn: "At least you aren't in the House of Lords because anyone liked you"

Toby Young @toadmeister

I’ve written a defence of the hereditary peers in this week’s @spectator: “For me, the best reason to keep the hereds is that they’re a living connection to Britain’s past, as well as to the history of the second chamber. Their presence as legislators may not be ‘rational’, but

RT @HoneggerM: A promising conversation on the @weplanetint podcast between @mark_lynas – author of several stern yet science-based books o…

RT @weplanetint: Should we be considering solar geoengineering to mitigate the harms of climate change? In Episode 3 of our new podcast, S…

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Robin Hanson @robinhanson

Uh, why is there a thin vertical strip of high fertility? And why does it map so close to a time zone boundary?!

RT @RobGMacfarlane: “Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight.” Each year I mark the day when this little apple tree first flo…

RT @LachlanWall01: Was it really that big? Insane.