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English has many pairs of words where '-th' was once added to make a noun out of the other, like 'width' and 'wide'.
My favourites are the ones for which the link may not be obvious now, like:
- 'mirth' and 'merry'
- 'drought' and 'dry'
- 'filth' and 'foul'
- 'sloth' and 'slow'
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Chess (.) com is a fascinating company.
• Founded in 2005
• Bought the domain for $55,000
• Have 400+ employees (100% remote)
• Crossed 100 million members this year
• Finished 2022 with ~$100M in revenue
Here's the story: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-…
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🤔 Does paying people for vaccination have negative consequences, such as reducing future vaccination and eroding moral values?
No.
Our new paper in Nature:
“Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences”
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
👇🧵
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Mike White is so drunk and hilarious. he just called out every famous person in the audience for passing on White Lotus. a true icon lol
"I know you all passed! You all passed on this show! So, yes, it's very gratifying to have this moment."
#GoldenGlobes
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I have to say, the saying ‘canary in a coal mine’ rings different (and mostly more positively!) when you find out the canaries were kept in canary resuscitators.
Canaries were used in mines in the 1800s to detect gases, such as carbon monoxide, being the birds much more sensitive than humans to small amounts of the gas
This device was used to resuscitate them when they showed signs of poisoning
[read more: buff.ly/2FWJVEh]
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The climate has changed slowly in the past due to variations in Earth's orbit and solar output. Its the rate of changes we've seen over the past century that are truly exceptional (and worrying).
Here are global temperatures since the last ice age ended: nature.com/articles/s41597-0…
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There is a monster leak of Arctic air heading towards the whole of North America. Many places will experience -20C. These leaks are becoming more frequent as the jet stream weakens. This is a new climate. The stability of the Holocene is over.
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The Fundamental Rationality of Young People Engaged in Yolo Capitalism - if you can’t earn your way into ‘the good life’ you might as well put it all on black…
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Sri Lanka was the site of the most remarkable popular uprising of 2022, but it has faded from the news after the dramatic ouster of the president in July. @Nina_Compact interviews a Sri Lankan dissident on the meaning of the uprising and future prospects: compactmag.com/article/sri-l…
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Great thread on income inequality US vs EU:
1. Pre-tax: US much more unequal
2. Tax: The US tax system much more progressive (!)
3. Post-tax: tax system not progressive enough to reverse huge inequality gap
Conclusion: It is about pre-distribution, not redistribution.
So happy to see our article forthcoming at AEJ: Applied 🥳 This was the very first paper I ever worked on, quite a journey since we started collecting data in 2017 with @thomas_blncht and @lucas_chancel!
Here are five facts that we uncover about income inequality in 🇪🇺 and 🇺🇸: 👇
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France and Morocco match tomorrow and there’s lots of talk about colonialism. But no talk about have the French colonial government used football as a nation building exercise in Morocco from 1937 onwards…
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This is an intriguing idea, but I think it may be a misinterpretation. First of all, only one of the OED’s early citations of the phrase ‘knocked up’ is related to slavery. The others, including the earliest recorded use, are not. 1/5
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#OpenAI's ChatGPT is ready to become a lawyer, it passed a practice bar exam! Scoring 70% (35/50). Guessing randomly would happen < 0.00000001% of the time
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Kirstie Alley stepped into an impossible job when she replaced Shelley Long on Cheers. Yet the show only became more popular in her era. Thoughts on a great comic performance that prolonged the life of one of our best ever comedies rollingstone.com/tv-movies/t…
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Got an opportunity to submit a piece on women in sport in Sri Lanka to @abcsport and I just HAD to write on Sri Lanka Netball, because their's is a story I think every Sri Lankan sports fan needs to know.
abc.net.au/news/2022-12-04/a…
