Threads Insights, 15 July 2026. Per-post views are 10–15 July 2026 snapshots; several are still climbing.
Pigeon droppings and the Big Bang480K views
1964年，紐澤西貝爾實驗室，兩個研究員爬進號角形大天線刷掉鴿子糞，想清掉一種怎麼調都清不掉的嘶嘶雜訊。刷完，雜訊還在。
Penzias and Wilson scrubbed their antenna to kill a hiss that turned out to be the afterglow of the Big Bang. 7.6K likes.
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Weighing the Earth with a meteorite284K views
1953年，一個叫帕特森的年輕人，拿一塊掉在亞利桑那沙漠、幾萬年前墜落的鐵隕石，去秤一樣東西的年紀：整顆地球。
How Clair Patterson dated the Earth at 4.55 billion years, and why the oldest rock on the planet is not from the planet. A 6-part thread.
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The professor who reported a burglary264K views
1952年1月，曼徹斯特。一位數學教授報警，說家裡遭了小偷。警察上門查案，越查越深，最後拘捕的是報案人本人。罪名跟失竊無關。他叫圖靈。
Alan Turing broke Enigma in secret and was convicted for telling the truth. A 6-part thread on the cost of honesty. 2.8K likes.
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The money at the bottom of the sea260K views
1991年，一位拿過諾貝爾獎的經濟學家專門寫文章，講一塊沉在海底的石頭。那塊石頭之後再沒有人見過，卻繼續當錢用了幾代人。
Milton Friedman, Yap's stone money, and what a rock nobody can see says about what money actually is.
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The father of the bomb, ruled a security risk210K views
他被叫做原子彈之父。造出那顆彈的九年後，1954 年，同一個美國政府開了一場聽證會，判定他是國家的安全隱患，吊銷他的安全許可。
Nine years after Los Alamos, the same government put Oppenheimer on trial in all but name. From my historical-figures series.
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The economist who became a forest monk184K views
瑞典有個經濟學家，二十幾歲，升遷的路已經鋪到眼前。但他辭職，去泰國的森林寺院出家。一待，就是十七年。
A reading companion to Björn Natthiko Lindeblad's I May Be Wrong: seventeen years in a Thai forest monastery, condensed into one sentence he kept. A 6-part thread, 150 replies.
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Washoe, the chimp who signed but rarely asked169K views
有一隻黑猩猩叫華秀，1960年代一對科學家夫妻把牠當孩子養，教牠打手語。
What a chimpanzee raised as a human child tells us about the one thing language is really for. A 7-part thread.
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The temple that predates farming135K views
1995年，一個德國考古學家在土耳其東南部山丘下挖出一批不該存在的東西。
Göbekli Tepe and the argument that religion built civilisation, not the other way round. A 7-part thread.
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The prince who walked out at midnight130K views
兩千五百年前，印度一個王子半夜離家出走。幾年後，他坐在一棵樹下想通了一件事，之後花四十幾年到處教人。他從頭到尾是一個人：會老，會病。
A reading companion to Thich Nhat Hanh's Old Path White Clouds: the Buddha lifted off the altar and set back on the ground. A 6-part thread.
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The murder of Hypatia128K views
公元 415 年三月，大齋期。亞歷山卓街頭，一群人攔下一輛馬車，把車上的女人拖下來。
The death of Alexandria's mathematician, told from the primary sources, and what the retellings keep getting wrong. A 6-part thread, 3.5K likes.
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Lightning in a bottle: the Miller experiment124K views
1952年，一個二十出頭的研究生做了一件在當時聽起來像扮上帝的事。他把水、氨氣、甲烷封進一個玻璃瓶，然後往裡面打閃電。
How a graduate student showed that the building blocks of life need no miracle, just gas and electricity. A 7-part thread.
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Kepler's mother, tried for witchcraft114K views
符騰堡的司法檔案裡，留著一份 1621 年 9 月的紀錄。一名七十多歲的老婦人被帶進刑訊室。她叫 Katharina Kepler。
While calculating the emperor's star tables, Kepler spent six years defending his mother in a witch trial, with the same method he used on planetary data. A 6-part thread.
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"So you quit?" — a dialogue about leaving teaching78K views
「你辭了？」「辭了。」「教得不好嗎？」「學生喜歡我。」「那為什麼走？」
Fewer views than the science threads, but a 4.5% interaction rate and 622 shares. Reach and resonance are different games; this post is why I track both.
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