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I think it's long past time that evangelicals addressed the elephant in the room. There is a large number of popular speakers and authors--ostensibly conservative and otherwise orthodox--whose books line
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My students are not allowed to call me Jennifer. (Former students who have graduated, sure). My first semester at my current college, students regularly tried to call me by my
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You’ve probably read this week’s stories about threats to insect populations and why they’re alarming (scroll down for spoilers*). Here are some things you can do to help.*We could all
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.@nymag and @nicholsonbaker8: This article is filled with wild speculation about SARS-CoV-2's origins and signifies a lack of understanding around basic genetics and viral evolution.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-la
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Discriminatory citizenship laws certainly are one reason why the Roberts brothers are facing deportation after spending their whole lives here, but another is something we don’t really pay enough attention
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A lot of the #uranium bull thesis revolves around a return to significant long-term, price-protected contracting between end users and producers. Let’s take this at face value. Here are some
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The UK is taking action against new variants. Closing borders. Surging testing. And yet the impression from last night’s presser was that the South African variant wasn’t the most pressing
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Thread on how liberals/secularists appeal to morality when they actually have no basis. Let's start with human rights. Who gets to decide what human rights are? But only a group
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Why Deku being bisexual is way less of a wacky headcannon than you think and actually makes a LOT of sense: a thread I want to preface this by saying
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TW: Child abuse, child death.I’m having so many conflicting emotions about this story. While these parents are unequivocally abusive, I’m also not a fan of using incarceration to punish child
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I wanted to say something about Liz Truss's announcement on equalities and have thought about it for 12 hours but honestly I still can't fathom what on earth they are
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I’m pleased to say @REACHCenterEd has released: “The Effects of School Reopenings on COVID-19 Hospitalizations.” We think it’s the 1st US study involving COVID health *outcomes* & 1st w data
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More on the controversial 'comfort women' paper from @thecrimson: Legal scholars and historians from S. Korea and the US said Ramseyer’s paper had several flaws in its reasoning and raised
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"breadtube" and "lefttube" started off as arbitrary labels assigned by fans, less to do with their actual material politics than the fact that they were (as kathryn says in her
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1/Let's talk about the Uighurs, and why you should care about them, and why people in America do care about them (which are two very different things).https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-29/china-forces-birth-control-on-musl
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The Bias-Variance Trade-Off & "DOUBLE DESCENT" Remember the bias-variance trade-off? It says that models perform well for an "intermediate level of flexibility". You've seen the picture of the U-shape test
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