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Alexandra Erin

AlexandraErin

Terry Pratchett was a fantasy author in that he wrote about magical, fantastic, and impossible things, like good policemen and benevolent dictators. Sure, in a fantasy world where academics are

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Objects made of stone, excavated in houses of the Mesolithic Lepenski vir culture, 6300 – 5990 BC, Danube Iron Gates gorge, eastern Serbia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir All have carvings on the

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/ This week woke academics dedicated themselves to arguing that 2+2=5 (they're still going, see screenshots)As that played out, a Medical Doctor had his life ripped apart and his job

Patrick Myers

pomyers

After almost 1 year, the wait is over - the #EXCEL investigators finally release the UDMI data in @NEJMhttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2000645?query=featured_secondary in a nutshell:- the EXCEL investigators had the UDMI data, al

K. «いつかのなつ»

_zanzou_

i lied and started watching the interview even though i have to leave in 10 minutes. i find it very interesting (and telling) that gege's discussion partners for WSJ for

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

On 23 September 1984 the BBC broadcast the apocalypse: the story of nuclear war and its effects on the people of Sheffield. Filmed on a shoestring budget it still causes

Nick Hinton

NickHintonn

A conspiracy thread: Tesla and Time Travel Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor most famous for giving us alternating current technologies, something the modern world could not exist without. He’s

Jonathan Birch

birchlse

Here are 10 philosophy articles I liked in 2020, in no particular order (a THREAD with links). 1: Do animals have a concept of death? @Susana_MonsO sets out what it

ಪ್ರಭಾಳ ಮಗ ಈ ಅಲೆಮಾರಿ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರಿ

Sheshapatangi

PART 1#SLBhyrappa , the most despised author amongst Leftists since decades.....It’s no exaggeration if I call S.L. Bhyrappa as a living legend in Bharatiya Sahitya.The best selling writer turned 89

"Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing"

Aelkus

the Elaine Radford argument recounted towards the end of this essay is a great example of how bad analysis of fiction can miss the point https://johnjosephkessel.wixsite.com/kessel-website/creating-the-innocent-killer to me the biggest

U Dhammaloka

DhammalokaU

So this seems like a good day to tell you the story of the first (known) Irish trans Buddhist, Lobzang Jivaka (Michael Dillon).This is him in Kalimpong in 1959. Jivaka's

Sara Sheridan

sarasheridan

This time next week I'll be chatting to @ScotSuffragette here: https://www.facebook.com/ProtestsandSuffragettes & to get us in the mood a THREADof Scots suffragettes. My favies. Here's Inverness lass Marion Wallace Dunlop,

Chris Dowdy

jehiahdowdy

While I should be washing the dishes, let me pause to issue a call for the creation of Dallas Studies. Here’s what I mean. 1/ Folks are so thirsty for

Ryan Heath

PoliticoRyan

THREAD: Boris Johnson has a problem named Joe Biden: Democrats are on UK climate leadership and on UK defense spending increase, but in no mood to prioritize the

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Seeing papers make the rounds that the herd immunity threshold may be much lower than the rough approximation 1-1/R0. Maybe, but let's slow down a minute.#1. There is still way

Aniyia (🗣 Anita without the T) ❤️

operaqueenie

These men look like fools. They know Trump is guilty as hell, that’s why they are trying to attack the process. It’s literally the only play they have, to get

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