Art, Architecture, Cinema, Tech, Economics. Irish 🇮🇪 in London
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
9 Mar 2023
These shapes are topologically equivalent (!)
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
8 Mar 2023
Everything was calculated.
He set himself up for retirement and to live his life on his own terms, but Cancer took that away from him.
My dads death taught me that working towards retirement is flawed.
Life can be taken from you at any moment.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
21 Dec 2018
Robotic tiles for VR movement by Hiroo Iwata at the University of Tsukuba.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
1 Jul 2022
The design, the font, the product, the man, the dystopia… I have ascended
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
25 Feb 2022
Lavrov, rightfully sanctioned by the US and EU today, was my deputy in the 90s. Used to have my back.
Today, I would watch my back if he was behind me.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
20 Feb 2022
Birthplaces of the 100 Fastest 10,000m Runners of All Time
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
15 Nov 2021
It never ceases to be amazing how long Chile really is.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
6 Oct 2021
A repeat of my plea for those who read audiobooks not to do funny voices. Just listening to Ben Miller read Andrew Roberts's biog of George III on Radio 4 and it really grates. (Only Martin Jarvis is allowed.)
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
1 Sep 2021
It's 24 years since my all-time favourite press apology/correction. If any of you can beat it, I'm all ears.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
25 Aug 2021
A freeway interchange near Atlanta and the center of Florence at the same scale.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
30 Jul 2021
One of the best post-match sports interviews.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
5 Jun 2021
Simone Biles, in extreme slow motion.
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
23 May 2021
A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.
- Daniel Kahneman
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
22 May 2021
The mysterious separation and beautiful movements of trees
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After much anticipation, today @NOAA releases the new U.S. Climate Normals for 1991–2020. Normals help you compare what’s happening in your neck of the woods with the last 30 years. Find out: bit.ly/NOAAClimateNormals @NWS @CommerceGov #ClimateNormals #NOAAClimateNormals
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
6 Apr 2021
A brilliant proof without words that (n³ - 1) is always a multiple of (n - 1) [source, animation by Roy Wright in @geogebra: buff.ly/2ryHiU8]
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
28 Mar 2021
Plastic Fresnel lenses can be made larger than glass lenses, as well as being much cheaper and lighter, so they are used to concentrate sunlight for heating in solar cookers and in solar forges. This is the level of heat obtained, capable of melting a rock buff.ly/39oSM35
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
27 Mar 2021
I love monkeys even more now knowing they hate that stringy bits on bananas too。❤️❤️❤️
Thanks @animalsworld
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
23 Mar 2021
The difference between root systems of natural prairie grass and farmed cereal crops graphically explains how we created the dustbowl...
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Denis Forrest ⬣ retweeted
22 Mar 2021
sometimes I just want to close my laptop and go dry stone walling in Cumbria
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