It’s been a busy few months, so less posting recently. I’ll try to work through my drafts as I have a few things that have been on my mind recently.
I’m switching to bluesky for my science posting: https://bsky.app/profile/luispedrocoelho.bsky.social
Twitter will be increasingly less sciencey going forward
A remote meeting in 1916. A highlight: “The meeting then paused for a musical interlude. […] Each city played a song of their choosing on a phonograph, to be transmitted through the telephone.”
Against placebo by a literal banana. Excellent piece. This is one of those topics where even relatively well-informed people still believe in non-metaphorical woo and think that the placebo effect is real and strong.
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