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Lead Scientist @BerkeleyEarth. Physics PhD, data nerd, and cancer survivor. Usually focused on climate change, fossil fuels, and air quality issues.
Oct 4, 2018 19 tweets 8 min read
THREAD) How famous do you have to be to get a place in @Wikipedia?

Sometimes, you have to win a Nobel Prize.

This is a thread looking at all the scientists who have been added to Wikipedia since 2007, but only after having been awarded a #NobelPrize. 1/ The English Wikipedia is an amazing resource, but its coverage of scientists can be a bit haphazard and at times misses many important figures.

(This is in contrast to athletes, who are pretty much guaranteed to have an article if they have ever appeared professionally.) 2/
Feb 22, 2018 6 tweets 2 min read
One of the lesser-known consequences of America's high rate of gun ownership, is a world leading number of suicides using firearms. Americans are more than twice as likely to commit suicide by gun as the residents of other developed countries.