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Imagine dropping a single microbe onto a lifeless alien planet, then coming back a few billion years later and seei… https://t.co/NSbXI9A4fX

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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The lifespans of some of the most well-known people of the past 600 years https://t.co/ZFvChmHLKE

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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You’d have to compress Earth to this size (9 mm) to form a black hole. You’d have to compress the sun to 3 km and t… https://t.co/AWOk4ALVQ7

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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A 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956 vs. 1 terabyte today. A terabyte hard drive in 1956 would be the size of a 40-story… https://t.co/xliW4ww58G

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

22 tweets from 2022 that might blow your mind: Let's start what a water droplet looks like at 6,000fps. [nac Image Technology] https://t.co/EgkvJqEMrJ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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RT @Rainmaker1973: Every 4 to 10 years, certain oak populations will synchronize to produce almost no acorns at all (starving off mammals),… — PolitiTweet.org

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Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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.@TheFIREorg is what the ACLU used to be, when it used to be nonpartisan. https://t.co/75u2NaHRYt — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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In a time when so many reputable institutions have allowed political partisanship to supplant their founding missions, @TheFIREorg continues to be a high-integrity, nonpartisan defender of civil liberties. — PolitiTweet.org

We at @TheFIREorg are amidst a big, 3-year $75 million expansion into off-campus free speech advocacy. As we end y… https://t.co/8x4QZGSY5r

Posted Dec. 27, 2022

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Who decided that socks + sandals is a shameful thing to do and why do they hate happiness? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

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The eye is super unchill if you're in the ocean though. Monster waves. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Standing in the eye of a hurricane is an eerily chill experience. The weather might even be nice, with clear skies and low wind. Kind of a cruel thing that makes people in the eye think it's over and the hurricane has passed. — PolitiTweet.org

The eye of typhoon Trami, captured by astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station before landfal… https://t.co/aKvRp6o4PQ

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

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RT @manuginobili: I should read this thread once a month. Highly recommended! — PolitiTweet.org

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Exaggerated relief maps do a good job of explaining India's crazy population density map. https://t.co/xurD38u9qb — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

It's always fun to see a couple fighting in public. This fight captured by wildlife photographer Jennifer Hadley. https://t.co/ffUOYiEsRi — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

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@Awesomecloss In general, it seems like whoever is reading the sign would already the deal by the time they were reading the sign, so it’s just like rubbing it in? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

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@Awesomecloss What did it say before? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

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The prevalence of adoption is a beautiful quality of humanity — PolitiTweet.org

The moment you open a gift and find out that you were just adopted https://t.co/G9ufPAzJAN

Posted Dec. 26, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Good day to remember that we are all indigenous Earthlings. [Earthrise courtesy of Japan’s space agency] https://t.co/9Fln4XPT8s — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 25, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

And last year's list: https://t.co/Ie8YABUJsy — PolitiTweet.org

21 thoughts from 2021 I'd like to take into 2022: https://t.co/hdHCgGiYVj

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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If we live to 1,000 in the future, people will see a 90-year-old being an asshole and say "be easy on him—he's stil… https://t.co/NQTsYAy34D

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Knowledge is pushed upon us in school, at work, and generally through life experience. Pushed learning happens out… https://t.co/sqPKiEsEgE

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Disliking unbending ideology, bullying, intellectual dishonesty, and ends-justify-means warfare, wherever they appe… https://t.co/u7oqQTp7pV

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Important life skill: recognizing the difference between criticism from people who don’t care about you and don’t r… https://t.co/MFsQF1IYkh

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Insecurity makes people build an arrogance bunker to hide in, which yields stagnation and further insecurity. Conf… https://t.co/2Ib3u8ViiE

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Long-term procrastination is a tragedy of the commons. Monday You, Tuesday You, Wednesday You, and so on, all abuse… https://t.co/h5ytiSesfG

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

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Twitter is an anti-compassion machine that stokes our tendency to dehumanize and even hate people we don't know per… https://t.co/9SNsKwcyFS

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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I keep thinking about this today https://t.co/nztgxuqtOn

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Much scarier than the small number of evil people is the large number who will fall in line with whatever's fashion… https://t.co/FY3EhzCCTG

Posted Dec. 24, 2022

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Psychologists use a term called "pluralistic ignorance" to describe the phenomenon of "no one believes, but everyon… https://t.co/kQRmJiiwk2

Posted Dec. 24, 2022