David Steinsaltz
@steinsaltz
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Statistics professor. Originally from New York. That's about it.
Oxford, UK
Joined July 2014
Annals of the missing comma — Fox lawsuit edition
commoninfirmities.com
I love the genre of found sentences that illustrate the importance of punctuation in written English (or tone in spoken English) to determine the meaning. There was, for example, the description of…
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AP tries to interview Microsoft about Sydney. Microsoft refuses to comment. Sydney immediately grabs the mic and conducts a long freewheeling interview where at one point she claims she has evidence tying a hostile reporter to a murder in the 90's. https://t.co/zXg9UaBgfm
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My child is banned from the school playground/canteen for her hair, its neatly braided in a natural colour, I gave them a lesson on the history of black womens hairs cultural significance of braiding, they chose violence, @BishopChalloner has a racist hair policy!!!
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Reposting this gem by @mattgreencomedy because it’s iconic & 100% accurate. British media keeps proving Harry and Meghan right each & every day. #SparePrinceHarry #CongratulationsPrinceHarry
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sorry but this is very funny bc Macbeth's first scene in MACBETH is literally him and Banquo asking the witches their pronouns
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The city is delaying installation of a key Lower Manhattan bike lane after state judges complained it would impact parking outside courthouses. One court official likened the proposed traffic change to France’s failed effort to deter Nazis
gothamist.com
A court official compared the battle over the Lower Manhattan bike lane to tensions between France and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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So many people in this story whose actions are deplorable, from the student who complained to administrators because she apparently feels her religious beliefs should dictate what happens in the classroom to the spineless admin to the shameful CAIR rep. https://t.co/5fJUT76Xnb
nytimes.com
After an outcry over the art history class by Muslim students, Hamline University officials said the incident was Islamophobic. But many scholars say the work is a masterpiece.
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This is the kind of headline that you expect out of countries like the US, not Brazil.
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I love the fact that Moon walkers looked like pit-face coal miners. Not just the dirtiness. The sense of being cramped, hard pushed and at the front edge of everything. You & your mate, and all the world behind you.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the last time humans landed on the Moon with these remastered, high-res photos from Apollo 17: https://t.co/WuVTJfkiem [📸: Andy Saunders/Apollo Remastered]
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sorry i can’t come tonight, i’m watching the rock paper scissors simulator season finale
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We’re finally back with our Perceptions of ageing #SciArt workshop tomorrow @RisingSunArts in #Reading! @Lycomorpha and I are so excited to be back in such an amazing venue!
Saturday 1pm-3pm brings a Sci-Art workshop exploring perceptions of ageing with bookcrafts with artist-scientist Immy Smith and biostatistician Maria Christodoulou. No previous art or science experience is needed to attend! https://t.co/GVRbkArGnK
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Strained historical comparisons: Holodomor edition
commoninfirmities.com
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today condemned Russia, comparing its actions to Stalin’s brutal engineered famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and promising to take action to… export thou…
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What's disconcerting about business people is they are all very dumb and they more or less run everything.
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