Cristina Chipurici @pyuric

Curious human being. Trail runner. Stoic wannabe. Master's degree in Applied Ethics. cristinachipurici.ro Bucharest, Romania Joined February 2008

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Derek Thompson @DKThomp

2 days ago

New newsletter: THE END OF THINKING Doomsday predictions about AI taking our jobs in the future shift focus away from where it belongs: in present reality, the age of screened tech has coincided with declines in literacy, reading, and writing. We are deskilling ourselves.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2 weeks ago

I just published The World in Which We Live medium.com/p/the-world-in…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2 months ago

DEBUNKING BS DU JOUR Article discussing a new study (metanalaysis) "debunking 10k steps/day" does not understand the paper! It DOES NOT say to stop at 7k: drops in Hazard R continue beyond 12k steps but hard to see on graph when HR becomes low. For metabolic syndrome &…

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Year Progress @year_progress

2 months ago

2025 is 56% complete.

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Anthony Esolen @AnthonyEsolen

2 months ago

Today I had an experience I've not had in 10 years -- or more, all things considered. I was chatting with an old friend of ours outside her apartment, on the lawn. A boy across the street was fooling around with a soccer ball. He's 16, and built like a middle linebacker. She…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

3 months ago

Friends, some (mostly female) scholarships are available for #RWRI 20 (July 7-18, online).

Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets

a year ago

Friends, some (mostly female) scholarships are available for #RWRI 20 (July 7-18, online).

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Derek Thompson @DKThomp

3 months ago

Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

5 months ago

I just published IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Closing the Discussion) medium.com/incerto/iq-is-…

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Thomas Reis @peakaustria

6 months ago

A 1,200-year-old data series offers no room for conspiracy theorists and science deniers. For all those who claim that the climate has changed much more dramatically in recent centuries than it does today: For 1,200 years, the date of the first cherry blossom has been…

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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

6 months ago

Did you hear about that recent Florida study that found that the 78% of kids with smartphones are happier than the 22% without? The op-ed about it, which suggested that smartphones are "beneficial" to 8 year olds, is contradicted by the study itself: afterbabel.com/p/flawed-absol…

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Year Progress @year_progress

6 months ago

2025 is 24% complete.

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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

7 months ago

Denmark will ban phones in schools. “And if we find out in five years that it was better with the phones, we can reintroduce them. But I don’t think that will be the case.” theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

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severe-weather.EU @severeweatherEU

7 months ago

Spring 2025 Final Forecast for Europe shows a potential impact of La Niña on the seasonal weather patterns, revealed by the latest long-range predictions from ECMWF and UKMO severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/s…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

7 months ago

Friends, scholarships (and registrations) are open for the next #RWRI, RWRI-20, July 7-18, 2025 (online). realworldrisk.com

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Emi Gal @emigal

7 months ago

Really good piece in @TIME on how lifestyle factors (like obesity, diet, lack of exercise) and environmental factors (pollutants and chemicals) are increasing the prevalence of cancer in young adults: time.com/7213490/why-ar…

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Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt

8 months ago

Today at AfterBabel.com, Nicholas Carr gives us a preview of his new great new book Superbloom. On how the quantity and efficiency of online communication can cut off the normal process by which relationships deepen into friendships. @roughtype afterbabel.com/p/from-anxiety…

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Year Progress @year_progress

9 months ago

2024 is 99% complete.

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Barack Obama @BarackObama

9 months ago

I always look forward to sharing my annual list of favorite books, movies, and music. Today I’ll start by sharing some of the books that have stuck with me long after I finished reading them. Check them out this holiday season, preferably at an independent bookstore or library!

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Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh

10 months ago

Instructing participants to perform 3 acts of kindness toward others per week increased their well-being and connectedness. Paradoxically, instructing participants to perform 3 acts of self-kindness per week made them feel WORSE. Message: Focus on others to feel better!

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

10 months ago

What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance. Evidence: Scientists are more credible when they admit what they don't know, acknowledge what they got wrong, and update their views. Trust is earned by expressing humility, not by asserting authority.