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#WorldScienceDay I get asked a lot why I study palaeontology. Sometimes out of genuine curiosity, other times it feels like I’m being put on the spot, like “why would you
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Today, I am thinking of Betsy and Ame Cuming, sister shopkeepers who were charged with "Treasons and High Crimes" in Massachusetts in 1781.Why were they charged? Because they sold imported
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Sascha Zverev six days ago after Adria Tour coronavirus cluster: “I deeply apologize to anyone that I have put at risk...I will proceed to follow self-isolating guidelines...stay safe .”Sascha Zverev
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1/ Near the end of the 19th c. the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie decided to take a break & went with his wife, Hilda, on vacation, & this lead to an
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Rudy Giuliani is holding a presser to rehash unfounded allegations of a left-wing conspiracy to rig votes in Dem-leaning big cities. He's with Trump ride-or-die lawyers from the past four
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i’m just going to make a lu thread on things i can talk about for hours even tho nobody asked space life such as aliens the government and how they
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Most of the discussions about social media power miss the critical distinction: between the platform and the graph. The reason we're in this mess is that there is no separation
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Brexit talks latest:Negotiations ongoing, general caution against any speculation about movement on LPF or fisheries... 2/ Two sources say the “gunboat”headlines have not gone down well with the EU side
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(THREAD) Trump is pulls directly from Southerners' and Slave apologists' playbook. In the late 1850s, southerners and Senators like Stephen Douglas argued the North was manufacturing a crisis. They argued
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People ask how Australia got on top of Covid . Here’s how. WA has been community transmission free for 10 months. Today there was one confirmed UK variant transmitted to
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A famous Indian saying, "Don't put unto tomorrow what you can do today and don't put unto later today what you can do now."Doing things right away is a very
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When you self-censor what you allow yourself to read, listen to, or think about, because peers or Twitter users would disapprove, you are doing yourself a great disservice. A lot
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Clear, cogent communication is a critical component of crisis management. I realised today that my mental health is poor in large part because of a cognitive dissonance I experience between
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1. It wasn’t a surprise attack. Those who controlled America, and still do, WANTED Japan to attack us to get us into the European theater. They orchestrated it. How and
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As an opener in Test-cricket, Rohit averages 68.50. Away from home as an opener (this series), he averages 32.25 in 4 innings.In this series, look past his numbers. Each time
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The transphobic bullshit coming out of the same Pennsylvanians today who plastered "Stronger Than Hate" all over their social media feeds two years ago is telling. And it's not isolated.
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