#1980s

The big news for two days has been the “protests” of state governors’ stay-at-home orders and mandatory business closings to try to contain the novel coronavirus which, as of today,
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Why is the #Bostock SCOTUS decision is important from a #DisabilityRights point of view? A ThreadCC: @clarkeja @katie_eyer @ezraiyoung @BRSoucek @lsepper @AnthonyMKreis @ProfLWiley @profmohapatra @Jeharrislaw @Maayan_Sudai @kmtani 1 / 12
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Unsurprisingly, the German government is fudging on reparations over the 1904 genocide. But onlookers expected it to be more forthcoming because of its tradition of Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Only (IMO), this misreads
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On 26th October 1985, a scientist named Dr Emmett Brown sent an unsuspecting local teenager back in time. This whole event can teach us some valuable lessons about #coronavirus Over
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Uganda had a population of 7 million when it gained independence in 1962, and is currently at 43 million. It's projected to reach 90 million people (and be the world's
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Apparently the Treasury is considering creating a “public funding body” which “could be similar to the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation (ICFC) that was created after the Second World War”.What
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For demand forecasters, the past is a tool to help plan for the future. The IESO has recorded energy demand data for 60 years, here’s a recap of the last
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Who should I sketch next?Check thread for other eras#boxing #boxeo #boxingart 1) 1990s/2000s Who should I sketch next?Check thread for other eras#boxing #boxeo #boxingart 2) 1970s/1980s Who should I sketch
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1/11While many analysts see the most recent NBS data release – with retail sales showing the first monthly year-on-year increase in 2020 and industrial production up 5.6% year on year
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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Freud was born to Galician
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Kbands have existed long before your 3rd gen faves debuted, but i guess we’re not ready for that conversation. The first rock band in korea, Add4, was formed in 1962,
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Thx to @morethanmySLE. I’ve been following him for years. Today watching this I cried and I’ll tell you why. 1/https://twitter.com/morethanmySLE/status/1299145368295403520 As a freshman in college (where I’m driving my 18
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Heard a guy on a radio call-in waxing lyrical about Britain’s ‘fantastic’ clothing industry & how he couldn’t understand why our factories weren’t making PPE. It got me thinking about
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A discriminatory phrase I read to describe remote learning "TRIAGE" SCHOOLING suggests that we must focus first on populations most poised to benefit from online learning (i.e., neurotypical, resource-rich students)
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Friend of mine told me a story the other day. His neighbor was a professor, British-Canadian, cynical of empire and it's effects on the world. He invited one of his
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I apologize in advance for the long tweet, but this is a story worth remembering and which I’ve written about often. From the late 1930s to the late 1960s (excluding
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