Tim Urban

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

West America and East America — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

.@natalietran explains the fascinating origin of the term “king size.” https://t.co/zbqFFBQHqg — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Supernovae are so rare that in our galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars, they happen about twice a century on average. This scales up to over 1,000 supernovae each second in the observable universe. Thousands have happened since you started reading this tweet. [Art: NASA] https://t.co/EGcTmDkirS — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

When you look at a photo of yourself as a child, who do you see? The atoms that make up your body were scattered throughout the world when that picture was taken and the atoms in the kid in that photo have since moved on. So why is that child you? What is the definition of you? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.” – Emerson Pugh The eternal paradox of neuroscience. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @david_perell: @SahilBloom I’ve always liked this @waitbutwhy chart about the Dunning-Krueger Effect. A little bit of knowledge leads… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

If you give evolution enough time it does some really cool shit — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Pillars by @NASAWebb. The longest "finger" is 4 light years long. If you could fly an airplane inside of it, it would take you 4.5 million years to get from the knuckle to the fingertip. https://t.co/P4UCj6PCgM — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @TerribleMaps: Electricity consumption in Europe in 1507 https://t.co/0ZSYqTkWVr — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

…making progress—from learning, from growing, from advancing. Do a self-audit. Examine your convictions and assumptions. Where did they come from? When were they last updated? What are you treating like an axiom that might not be? You haven’t had your last breakthrough. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

… I suspect most of you hear this and identify with the science geologists. And in some areas of your thinking, you’re probably right. But without question, you are a flood geologist in other areas of thought, clutching to a Bible of assumptions that’s preventing you from… — PolitiTweet.org

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…Drift, plate tectonics, and the 4.54 billion year age of the Earth. The flood geologists ran into a brick wall from the get-go. Their conviction that the Bible was an axiom was an intellectual ball-and-chain that kept them planted at the foot of the mountain of learning. … — PolitiTweet.org

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…whose starting point was “I don’t know.” They assumed nothing and just built conclusions based on their observations. Over the following centuries the science geologists would embark up a mountain of learning as they discovered radiometric dating, the theory of Continental… — PolitiTweet.org

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In the 1600s there were two camps of geologists: The “flood geologists” whose starting point was that the Earth was 6,000 years old and therefore that wonders like sea shell fossils in the Grand Canyon must be a result of the biblical flood. And the “science geologists”… — PolitiTweet.org

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Not too far off. Overestimated cars, underestimated Bluetooth. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

There are an estimated 3 trillion trees on Earth and an estimated 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. So every time you see three trees, they represent two observable galaxies. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

@udimsumulosesum Six months! Why are you so obsessed with going to the dentist? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Upside down (but not backwards) is even weirder https://t.co/d0GV89ISl6 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

https://t.co/Gi2bACE41A — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @historyinmemes: A Roman road built in 312 BC. It's still in use today. https://t.co/PdIeIjmMVJ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

In 2022 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

RT @drninaansary: Iranian sports climber #ElnazRekabi who in a bold act of defiance did not wear the mandatory hijab at an international co… — PolitiTweet.org

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@harrisonpkent @bigstudwalt https://t.co/xXs1CF84Xz — PolitiTweet.org

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@harrisonpkent @bigstudwalt Thread — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Marx? If "Marxism" is still a famous concept? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Whoever the lucky person who is who gets to step down on Mars first. (I requested it be me and got a no response.) — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Wright Brothers? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

Maybe Picasso? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

I hope not Putin — PolitiTweet.org