#Historical

I just re-read Professor Auer's @stefanauer_hku fascinating research article "Merkel’s Germany and the European Union: Between Emergency and the Rule of Rules". His article can help us understand Merkel's advocacy
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THREAD: My favorite non-toxic YouTube creators.As we all know, YouTube can be a cesspool, where watching one seemingly-innocuous video triggers the Algorithm and three autoplays later someone is trying to
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Of the biology of class and caste - Or why your system will always suckMore below. First we will push aside the question of whether class and hierarchy are a
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love to enjoy talking about how show don't tell is a CIA-funded writing workshop technique :-) yep, this gets discussed in “cultural cold war” literature like Empires of Workshopinterestingly enough,
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There’s a story which may well be apocryphal: at an art exhibition in the 1880s the Russian painter Vasily Vereshchagin took General Helmuth von Moltke (the elder) on a tour
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Alright *cracks knuckles* let’s do this Age of Sigmar case study:Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) was the second big gaming system created by Games Workshop, released in 1983. It used rank
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So I (obviously) love Star Trek, but one of the ways I think it fails is by upholding the idea that there is one unified “human” morality and worldview —
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1)A thread on Ancestral Responsibility in light of the BLM Movement. I would like to say that I believe that the roots of good and evil are the same. We
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Generally I find RAND research outputs really insightful and useful. But sorry to say that this report is afflicted by certain stereotypes, and some wishful thinking about areas for future
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6Jan US insurrection:Democracies need the social sciences & humanities more than ever.We need political science, sociology, anthropology, history, phil, ethics.We need better media, smarter journalists, social media literacy.We need ant
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COMING SOON: My new book on Dvorak's New World Symphony! (A thread--stick around for a discount opportunity at the end) 1/ This book grows out of my abiding interest in
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I'm writing a tweet thread on what I think COVID in Canada in 2021 will look like. Short version: the next months will be much worse than anything yet--we are
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1. TOPS brake codes - a thread for railway modellers!(Nerd alert! ) 1a. A thread after a conversation with @NSE_Latchmere earlier today - for anyone looking to understand how brakes
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Today is the 320th Birth Anniversary of Shrimant #BajiraoPeshwa who was 2nd Peshwa of Chatrapati Shahu Maharaj.Born on 18th August, 1700 at Shrivardhan, Maharashtra.Died on 28th April, 1740 at Raverkhadi
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NOTES ON THE ORIGINS AND CONTEXT OF Q DROP 1 This will be the first in a series of threads that examine how the earliest Q drops fit in with
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The UK government (via Rees Mogg) has said they will not consider any petitions unless they go through their official petition site. This means all the Change. org petitions that
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