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The @metmuseum's new installation, "Crossroads," is a master class in using your looted antiquities to justify keeping your looted antiquities. A short thread. The exhibit "examine[s] the idea of cultural
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I'm seeing a lot of chat about PCR and COVID, some of it quite bonkers. So here’s a PCR 101. DNA is very small and therefore not easy to detect.
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A little thread to bring some reality to the statement "Autistic people experience the world differently to non-autistic people"/ /Imagine a large group of work colleagues, gathered in a team
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On March 8, 2015, one day after the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” John Lewis asked me to take his picture at the foot of The Edmund Pettus Bridge in
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Interesting read when you see it through the eyes of a member of the Greatest Generation.I talked with a man today, an 80+ year old man. I asked him if
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Ancient Coin of the Day: A brass dupondius of Claudius, ca. AD 41-50, commemorating the deification of Livia, the wife of Augustus and grandmother of Claudius. #ACOTD #Livia Image: RIC
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1/Why is tricuspid valve (TV) endocarditis more common in those who use intravenous drugs?The portal of entry for most bacteria is the venous system. If quick access to the right-heart
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Endings are important to the impact a design has on players. So let’s go on a journey together through one of my favorite studies, involving colonoscopies.Join me, won’t you? In
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I should point this out bc many groyper generals and MAGA at large seem to have not heard what can go down on the 6th. The Senate (outside of one
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A Brief Thread on Using the Same Hack Companies Use to Have a 90%+ White Workplace to Have a Diverse Workplace:First off, I want to say that this original poster
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13 years ago today, Kanye West released GraduationOne of Kanye West’s masterpieces; a thread Kanye released Graduation alongside 50 Cent’s album, Curtis. The media turned it into a sales war leading
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.@tylercowen has an interesting post on libertarians and pandemic policy today. If I'm internalising correctly, I see him as making two separate points: that the libertarian response to a pandemic
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So I keep hearing about these personal portable air conditioners. summer’s upon us, and we’re sweatily enduring our sweltering homes at night…we want relief! And today my wife sent me
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Okay so this is what went down in my linguistics class yesterday and today:Our professor told us the week prior we would have an "immersive experience" and yesterday told us
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1/ Today is our 20th Anniversary! A #recovery thread:Beginning in 1993, a task force was appointed to explore the issues with homelessness in #WakeCounty. A 1997 Gap Analysis revealed that
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Part 2: What will Brexit mean for European exchanges (futures version).New thread. 1/nFollowing on from this raised by @hidenotslide.Part 1 (Equities) was last night.https://twitter.com/HideNotSlide/status/1344357616600965123 The original R
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