The 1979 Islamic Revolution was as world-changing a revolution as those of France in 1789 and Russia in 1917 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, heralding a new era of Islamist mobilization across the entire Middle East that promoted a Sunni as well as Shiite radicalization

🚨🇮🇷 Meanwhile in Iran There is a massive revolution going on across a run right now against the Islamic regime in power. However, for some bizarre reason, most legacy fake news media outlets including the BBC are simply refusing to report on it!

"What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025..."

During the Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day, police could force entry to your home and make them go home. Does anyone know if this is service is still available, and if you have to book?

Over 600 scholars have now signed the open letter condemning the campaign against Professor Michael Ben-Gad and supporting his personal and intellectual freedom as an academic. Credit to colleagues at @AFAF_freespeech and the London Universities’ Council for Academic Freedom

Today I finished 18 weeks of chemotherapy, brachytherapy surgery and 4 weeks of chemotherapy. Many thanks to the staff at St James’s Hospital Leeds and the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, as well as the scientists, companies and charities who made such brilliant treatments possible

This is what I came to the internet for

There are not many places on earth where we have detailed cause-of-death data from before the era of widespread vaccination. Massachusetts is one of those places. From 1842-1877, 70% of all deaths were from diseases which we today have vaccines to prevent.

Three-year-old Anish Sarker from India has become the youngest FIDE-rated chess player in the world, with a rating of 1555

It seems timely to repost one of my favourite tables: https://t.co/QpyjQouIIS

Robert Plant

Why I no longer believe we can say academics are the smartest people https://t.co/0CnUHhRJQI via @arthurmloureiro

At the weekend, we reached 100 million 5k parkruns 🎊 That’s equivalent to our first parkrun, which had 13 finishers, being repeated 7.7 million times! 🌳 #loveparkrun

Quoted in today's Guardian https://t.co/LpwqIENgSR #DNS_UOM

Estimates of number of lives saved: -Bosch and Haber (synthetic nitrogen) over 2 BN -Landsteiner and Lewisohn (blood transfusion) over 1 BN -Borlaug (wheat varieties) over 200 M 🫡

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from @northernassist telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

Can you believe it? We’re 20 today! 🎉 From 13 runners and 5 volunteers on Saturday 2 October 2004, to a worldwide community of millions today. Check out our journey 👉 https://t.co/02jgGULcFS #TheFeelGoodMovement

Never not funny...

Disgusting outrageous fraud