Striking optical illusion. It illustrates that our peripheral visual system has a lower resolution and that our brain fills the gap with predictions.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Reminder: mining is a *tiny and insignificant* impact compared to fossil fuel production, farming, ranching, etc. etc.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OrmeStephan/status/1618334666901311488
Am yet to see a better alternative to the current flag than this, by John Joseph in 2006.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ElliotG78/status/1617774590746587136
Is there a term for this sort of behaviour on social media?
Is this man a racist? #auspol
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/lesstenny/status/1617406249775280129
The obvious explanation for anyone with exposure to agricultural economics is a standard hog cycle, where a supply squeeze sends prices temporarily soaring.
What happens next? Farmers raise a lot of new hogs/chickens/whatever, and prices crash. This will happen to eggs.
What happens next? Farmers raise a lot of new hogs/chickens/whatever, and prices crash. This will happen to eggs.
This and its predecessors make up one of the world’s most telling datasets.
Historian Michail Moatsos recently produced new historical reconstructions of global poverty over the long-run.
You can find them on our @[email protected] page on poverty
https://ourworldindata.org/poverty
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1616738961736491010
As McCalman suggests, this bloke Joseph Haweil – mayor of @[email protected] – has some ideas about infrastructure that don't involve spending $100+ billion on a low-traffic underground railway through the eastern suburbs.
Labor's forgotten people, who unlike Menzies's version, are actually forgotten even while they held the fort during the pandemic as essential workers.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JanetMccalman/status/1615496375390842880
The decline in homeownership for younger households has reversed in recent years.
Eg. Households headed by a person born 1987-91 were far behind their peers born 82-86 when they were in their late 20s. Now, in their early 30s, they are doing just as well
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-welfare/home-ownership-and-housing-tenure
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DrCameronMurray/status/1613669233761865728
Brexit has cooled the appetite for Nexit, Italiexit, etc. (FT)
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StefanFSchubert/status/1613315771001671688
Very interesting trends that may seem counterintuitive: There is a marked decline in adolescent risk behaviours in many high-income countries.
👇Trends for smoking, drinking, marijuana use, sexual activity around 15 year over the last 25 years.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622009224
