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Dr. Habeeb☪️

DocProdigy

Debunking the "Qura'an and Flat Earth" argument(with academic references ) This myth is quite famous within the Islamophobic community, but does the Qur'an really say Earth is flat? This query

Puff, a Gray Jedi

KeraRolsen

"Why is everyone posting the Joint Chiefs letter? *I* know what my oath says!"Cool, but we've known about extremism in the ranks of the US military for a long while

Dan Lamothe

DanLamothe

The transcript of a background call with Pentagon reporters about Afghanistan was published on the Defense Department website. It reaffirms something: The truth was not told on Tuesday, deliberately or

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

5/ I got a number of questions yesterday related to COVID-19 vaccines, vaccines in general, and the Pfizer clinical trial interim results, so I will answer several of the big

Gina Bates

hilltopgina

Why I am disgusted by the human species.Speciesism Part 2: Marine LifeIt is estimated that up to 3 trillion fish are caught from the wild & killed globally every year:

Barrett Brooks

BarrettABrooks

Early in the 2010s I watched a documentary that changed everything about how I look at the clothes in my closet: The True Cost.From the moment I learned about the

The Telegraph

Telegraph

Travelling to work has become a thing of the past for manyhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/01/27/daily-commute-must-evolve-lure-back-britains-covid-aristocracy/ According to the @ONS, before the arrival of coronavirus only 5% of Br

François-Xavier Durandy

fxdurandy

You know I have this passion of exploring HindiUrdu #translation. Today’s case study: the first page of SR Faruqi’s Qabze Zaman. It’s just been published by @RajkamalBooks, in a

Christopher Snowdon

cjsnowdon

This is woeful science reporting. 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/07/vapers-covid-19-20-per-cent-likely-transmit-infected-non-smoker/ The study (a pre-print) essentially looks at how much more air people exhale while vaping compa

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖

kixes

Thank you @heatherchen_ for asking me for my views about @ITV's #TheSingaporeGrip and the foregrounding of white experiences during a very painful point of #Singapore's history.https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/v7gk49/japans-inva

Epilepsy Action

epilepsyaction

We are currently receiving a high number of enquiries about whether people with epilepsy are included as part of priority group 6 of the COVID-19 vaccine programme. We are aware

Solairis

solairis_

Why does Bitcoin have value?Sure, It has a monetary policy enforced by law (code), but people often forgets that software is a social endeavor.I started designing a model to solidify

The Carolina Special

PiedmontLimited

Recent coverage of the new Moynihan Train Hall in New York City has me thinking about the complicated legacy of former Norfolk & Western #Railway president Stuart T. Saunders. /1

E.W. Niedermeyer

Tweetermeyer

Here's a fun mental exercise: if you did want to run a self-driving car scam starting in 2016, how would you have made it different from Tesla's "Full Self-Driving"?It's genuinely

Darius Kazemi

tinysubversions

Just came across a really great paper about bots and misinformation. "Middle East Twitter bots and the covid-19 infodemic", by @abulkhaezuran @nouraaljizawi at @citizenlab. I think it's a preprint?PDF: http://workshop-proceedi

Amy Pearson

DrAmyPearson

New paper with @DrSHodgetts on whether lateralisation can explain language and handedness diffs in autism.Short answer: we dont know.More important q: should we care? Very mixed feelings about this paper:

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