I know there are different types of vaccines, but really, experience should be enough to prove this assumption wrong many times over. I guess people just don’t get their flu shots…

"What you were taught
“Flu shots give you the flu”

What we know now
A common misconception…

Updated understanding emerged around 2020"

Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?

I just picked up a book on this! There is, of course, an incredibly racist history to the use of these concepts.

You Are Not a Kinesthetic Learner

Didn’t Ramanujan write to a Cambridge professor? His English would be great. Colonial India—a lot of elites would’ve had knowledge of English.

Literally a Renaissance man.

Interesting that he supposedly said that, given how much he dunks on philosophers.

Agreed, Leonardo had that natural sense of curiosity and wonder that I can imagine being completely infectious.

Bertrand Russell has an intro to philosophy book that is quite accessible.

It gives you critical thinking skills, which are already in quite short supply…

There was actually a second weasel that did.

Fair point. Probably not very separate to begin with, but definitely so now.

Truth to the legends… there’s a reason two separate religious codes banned consumption of pork.