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Jeremy Duns

JeremyDuns

Several people have sent this to me and to others. I've got a lot on so perhaps someone else can deal with it more fully, but just a few points

Daniel Bellingradt

dbellingradt

Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" of 1665 invented and fueled the myth of the existance of a paper eating "book-worm". According to the inventor, the worm was "silver-shining" and "eats holes through

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

Buried in the Atlantic's vague, catastrophizing "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine" article is a fair question: "How much real-world violence would never have happened if Facebook didn’t exist?" An article

Slava Malamud

SlavaMalamud

More on "The Queen's Gambit."Besides the fact that it is:1) a typical American sports movie,2) a visual joy,3) a caricaturistic but true at heart portrayal of the USSR (our aesthetics

Keto Dad

KetoDad1

My wife & I have been consciously helping our kids lower their sugar intake & make healthier choices.Since taking on this effort, we have deliberately shopped differently. The kids can't

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stellar_tombs

The non-violence ideology of liberalism implies that the violence used to establish the US Empire is okay but violence used to dismantle it is not Kwame Ture: "Now, I think

Ella Al-Shamahi

LittleMsFossil

Hi all a few folks are querying a few things about this new rock art find - I keep trying to respond but am repeating myself quite a bit. So

Rebecca Thomas

beccaleat

I had a long phone call with a non-Ind person yesterday. They googled me, found my place of employment and called me. They began by launching into their idea for

Felicia Scalzetti

princess_resist

At today's Hoover, AL protest. As usual, we're protesting on public property in front of city hall. While we have smaller protests compared to big cities (usually 50-60 protesters) we've

King

Kingdom1776

I wish to explain, the most important thing, I have ever taught any of you.Do you have the attention span?Do you want to truly understand the Art of War?Do you

Laurie Voss

seldo

Happy Sunday, it's time for the latest #EuropeanBios entry, #36, Joan of Arc, born in France in 1412. She's a lot more interesting than most of the saints, and her

R. Vincent Pohl

rvpohl

A few thoughts on working in policy research as an Economics PhD. A thread that could be interesting for Econ JMCs in light of a shortage of academic jobs, but

Maria

MariaBruno01

Just. wow."Kislin probably offered the TV sets to Trump at spectacularly low prices."By doing so, the KGB, via Kislin, got its foot in the door and could see if the

Burak Esen

Afroturrk

Twenty lessons learned in '20: (thread) 1. Losing your sense of smell/taste is equally as scary as it is convenient.Covid sucks... but it can always be worse. 2. When looking

free to fic (foff)

freetofic

this has happened to me twice now, so I'm sharing:a short thread re: new phone scammer technique back in 2019, I got scammed out of most of my savings,

Miqdaad Versi

miqdaad

Shawcross is the frontrunner for leading the independent review of Prevent despite having a history of awful & extreme positions about Islam & MuslimsFor example, he said: “..Islam is one

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