#Historical

Frédéric Leroy

fleroy1974

BILL GATES, big investor in synthetic meat & in the militant organizations lobbying for its implementation (eg. Good Food Institute) & media hailing its virtues (eg. Guardian), wants to use

Bob Clark

Clarkivist

Ok, a thread about why there won’t be a real Donald J. Trump Presidential Library. #trumplibrary 1/x Let’s get our definitions straight. By “presidential library” I mean a facility owned

Dr. Ben Franta

BenFranta

Must-read investigation of @FTIConsulting, a key group of propagandists-for-hire working behind the scenes for Big Fossil.(Mini-thread)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/climate/fti-consulting.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&

Rachel Clamp

racheljclamp

‘Plague nurses, cleansers, and searchers: the female key workers of seventeenth-century Newcastle’. This paper will explore female experiences of plague through their often overlooked roles in early modern public health

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin

bethsawin

A thread: why seemingly small change can matter a lot over time. Why your actions now could mean a different world in 2100. Why we just have to keep on

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Loneliness is an epidemic of our time & compounded by Covid-19. The worst thing u can do to someone short of death is to give them solitary confinement & isolate

Eve

Slavic_Bot

Fata Morgana and representation of Medieval times As I continue to approach this topic I want you all to know this isn't coming from a place of religion or anti

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan تاریخ خراسان

BiruniKhorasan

Since this unintelligent debate about #Mawlana´s origin goes on, I feel forced to weigh in and start a #Thread about #Rumi´s origin, the nature of the Persianate #civilization, what labels

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

I'd like to hammer this home:Most Black Americans live in the South. There have been ~250 Senate elections in the South since the end of the Civil War.Exactly two Black

Saad Khan

Saadkhan725

As an ardent nationalist, I agree with your point of view, but still, it’s imperative to do a critical analysis of this tweet. Acknowledging diversity is one thing (functionally indispensable),

Seamus Blackley

SeamusBlackley

Shrödonger for the FASHION WIN.https://twitter.com/physinhistory/status/1342113542636412929 OK So the reason for the dong here is a story everyone should know, if they like QM and/or had to learn to solve Schrödinger’s

Pamina in a Pear Tree

pamina_q

In the new You're Wrong About episode about Tipper Gore's crusade against "porn rock", @RottenInDenmark observed that media oriented moral panics like this often collapse the context of the things

Ante D. Luvian

uncle_deluge

I mentioned this because I think it's in stark contrast with the trope that all cultures have a "flood myth." In this case, I think there's enough evidence to show

Edward Kennedy

edwardhkennedy

A short thread:It amazes me how many crucial ideas underlying now-popular semiparametrics (aka doubly robust parameter/functional estimation / TMLE / double/debiased/orthogonal ML etc etc) were first proposed many decades ago.I

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

you're told that what goes on in other countries is none of your concern & you should only care about what's happening inside your borders. ppl still tend to equate

Adjacent Possible

Sage_Opinion

As you may know, the typical PIRA Sinn Fein supporting militant Irish Republican, has a constant need to be the most Irish person in the room. This 24/7 condition is

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