#Features

In just under 20 minutes, #Australia will appear before the UN Human Rights council where its human rights record will come under review. It only happens every 5 years, so
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1/ in today’s #rewildingscience paper we look at Lansanta et al’s 2015 review. Which brings together arguments for and against control or naturalisation of abandoned farmland #rewilding #agriculture #farmland 2/
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THREAD: A critical look at baseline scenariosI did a presentation for the @Tekna group on Energy, Industry, & Environment.Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/GlenPeters_CICERO/a-critical-look-at-baseline-climate-scenariosVideo: htt
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I was trying to find more info on Rachel Chandler earlier, so I started digging into her husband's background...& boy did I find out some juicy info https://twitter.com/TXTrumpette89/status/1108783259046027265 TOM GUINNESS
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Jared Diamond proposed that germs, along guns and steel, have shaped our modern world and current pandemic is a good example. But diseases, apart from germs, have also contributed in
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COMET β€œAERODYNAMICS”With the recent visit from Comet NEOWISE I thought it would be fun to dive into the fascinating world of fluid dynamics relating to comets. Beware: some of these
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1/ Bitcoin is a decentralized super-organism made of individually replaceable cells that share aligned incentives. Some of Bitcoin's best traits are simply copied from the Fungi Kingdom. Let's explore this...Part
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As we approach our sixth month of quarantine in the US, we’re all pretty restless. Maybe a book would help? A really long book? A really long, really immersive, SFF
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BTS's most political and socially conscious songs, a thread - No More Dream” (2 Cool 4 Skool, 2013)the song strongly relates to how South Korean youth culture revolves largely around
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A few days ago, the JTA reported on a controversy over the fact that the MET's catalogue identified what is observably a Jewish phylactery as a 6th century Egyptian amulet.
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1/ $MIR | Mirror ProtocolCreating synthetic & programmable *mirrored* tokens that represent real-world assets.Trading stocks on Uniswap 24/7? - Yes.Beyond stocks any real-world asset can be digitized onhttp://mirror.finance  2/ Mir
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The McTague article in the Atlantic on UK state failure read to me more like an introduction to an article on UK state failure ['maybe the UK state has failed,
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Interviews of Black Women By Black WomenA Thread: Written by @dariansymone https://www.teenvogue.com/story/chloe-halle-cover-june-2020 Written by @jewelwickershow https://www.teenvogue.com/story/jalaiah-harmon-renegade-creator-viral-dance W
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There’s a new paper circulating today about β€œrisk factors” for COVID19 which is getting misinterpreted in a pretty common way: applying conclusions about causation to results obtained via methods designed
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In this semester, I teach an English course entitled "Crisis of democracy and democratic innovations." Every week, my students and I examine and discuss various issues. I learn a lot
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