#Scientific

Japan to close "humanities,liberalarts & socialsciences" deptts in univ. https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/social-sciences-and-humanities-faculties-close-japan-after-ministerial-decree Nothing human/scientific/libera
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There are no girls on the internet, there is no such thing as misogyny, and as a species we are congenitally incapable of grasping these truths, in fact the deck
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Alito is delivering the keynote speech at this year’s Federalist Society convention. He’s using the occasion to defend the group, claiming its members face “harassment and retaliation for saying anything
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Let’s talk about online school. Teachers and school administrators were given an impossible problem to teach online school with no training or scientific basis or time to develop tools or
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Covid Epi Weekly: Public Health Waking Up From Politics-Induced ComaCases, hospitalizations, deaths worsening. Vaccination coming - let’s make sure as many of us as possible live to see that day.
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Publishing works on long schedules, which means that long-planned books can be overtaken by events...like covid. 2020 was tough for those of us with books in trail, especially nonfiction. But
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Happy birthday to Sasha Shulgin, born on this day in 1925. He invented hundreds of chemical technologies for exploring the mind and healing the soul. Sasha's first known publications are
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A patient w/ICM (LVEF 15%) p/w angina & DOE. SPECT shows a fixed defect & LHC shows LCx CTO. ...To revasc or not to revasc...1st we need to know if
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TERFs: Trans people just have a persecution complex.Also TERFs: The international trans cabal is using its power to silence and ostracise anyone who disagrees with them! TERFs: Penis penis penis
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The False Promise of Peace in the Middle East , how powers work in darkness to hinder peace and destabilize the fragile region through fighting real reformers and peace seeking
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THREAD on conspiracy theories & attachment. I keep seeing frustrated social media posts asking why people believe conspiracy theories. Answer: It gives a sense of control - includng belonging, predictability
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For all the people that’ve been cleaning their groceries, opening door handles with lysol wipes etc, let’s look at the evidence for the fomite transmission of COVID-19 (& asymptomatic transmission
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"Freedom Caucus" "Justice Democrats" Extremists, co-opting classical American words/ideals to drive people to the tips of the political horseshoe. Two sides of the same divisive coin.Let's discuss. We'll start
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A story of inappropriate technology: in the 1970s it was decided to modernize the rice farming of Sri Lanka, whose system that had not changed much for 3000 years. The
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a role of editors lately (for absolutely no apparent reason, wink wink). But no matter how I look at this, I come back to
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achievements of African Muslims throughout history, a thread: disclaimer I said african & not black because some figures/events are non-Black North Africans, all love Fatima al-Fihriyyah started the world’s
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