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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan

My new book, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, addresses a problem that few Europeans are willing to discuss: the undermining of women’s rights in multiple countries

saranyan

saranyan

(1) Something like nine/ten years or so (I should look at that email) -- I sought help from a #kidlit agent turned editor with a manuscript (agree it was horrible

libby watson

libbycwatson

THIS DRIVES ME FUCKING INSANE https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/nyregion/coronavirus-medical-debt-hospitals.html it shouldn't take journalists to shame hospitals and they never have any excuse; time and time again a journalist writes t

Alexander Guerrero

Alex_A_Guerrero

Yesterday a prominent philosopher noted he'd only had one Black colleague during his career spent at 4 leading departments. He also noted that he's effectively powerless to change this in

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

The past months have seen several new concerning variants identified in regions across the globe. A thread about the new variants we're seeing in different parts of the world, what

Harry Ramsay

harry_ramsay

Since @davidavalerio and @dmcdougall hosted their excellent @interintellect_ salon yesterday on humans becoming a multiplanetary species, I've been thinking about *why* this is so interesting.Short answer: because it forces you

Karm Sumal

KarmSumal

1/ There's over 170 construction cranes in Metro #Vancouver. It's only going to get busier as the following pick up steam. A disjointed thread on1. Oakridge Redevelopment2. Bdwy Corridor 3.

Kieron Boyle

KieronJBoyle

There are too few incentives for key players in the school food system to focus on nutrition. We're joining many partners in highlighting to the PM the urgent need for

Matt Sanders makes RPGs.

iammattsanders

I really enjoy RPGs that use decks of cards, but there's a big difference vs dice I've not seen unpacked so I'm going to do it, and how I might

Lucas

CarefreeLucas

At this stage, where do we go? Do we go back to a 4-3-3 with Werner back at LW? Do we go back to a 4-2-3-1 with Kai back as

Alex | Haruspis

haruspis

Writing up a piece on mental health and it's got me feeling a lot about Halo 4 again, so... thread.Halo 4 is a story that's fascinated with prisons - not

Stefan Simanowitz

StefSimanowitz

1/. Very disturbingThe @WSJ has just revealed that the social media app Parler, - set up as an alternative to Facebook & Twitter - is funded by the Mercers, the

Ben Spurr

BenSpurr

Strayed a bit from my regular beat to write about an interesting Cdn community: Stuck north of a closed border, Canada’s full-time RVers are facing an unfamiliar foe: The Canadian

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

When I said that the US is having one Wuhan a day (50k/day #coronavirus cases in the US vs. 50k for all time in Wuhan), many people responded: "You can't

Women in Statistics and Data Science

WomenInStat

So yesterday I asked you all what you wanted to hear about from me this week, and one answer stood out from all the others: the SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD).https://twitter.com/genomixgmailcom/status/1285212264614768642?s=201/

eigenrobot

eigenrobot

you know I dont Do I @selentelechia?Was talking with Selene about this wrt meditation, I guess a bunch of stuff that meditators do deliberately is just likenatural or intuitive for

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