#Asia

Roméo Levi

HanumanOlam

Why colonialism happened, a thread: Human resources have always been limited by how much we can extract from the environment. In hunter gatherer societies that meant possessing just enough to

August 21, 1971

redspecter00

Not only was the history of the Soviet Union that we learned in high school a lie, but the real history of the Soviet Union is so damn cool. The

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Something that I think gets lost is: the plan was not supposed to be to have lockdowns⁠—or related things like school closures⁠—until a vaccine. Lockdowns suck. ⁠It was to use

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louxrocks

Ash, thankyou so much for doing this I can't even begin to explain how much this means to me. I became a fan in 2013 literally STANNING one direction was

SⓣAN JOSE 🌱

enpimy

Why Julie Anne San Jose (@MyJaps) is tagged as the "Asia's Pop Diva/Sweetheart"A thread: Bumenta sa neighboring countries natin ang eponymous debut solo album niya (read: number one peak position).REFERENCES:1)

Marie Myung-Ok 명옥 Lee

MarieMyungOkLee

I wrote about how anti-Asian racism (among other Trump qualities) made Trump but also the US in general spend 70 days doing other things while Korea ramped up its testing-

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

Gengis Khan is regarded as a barbarian in Central Asia and the "Middle East" too, not only in the West. His ethnic heirs in the region, Hazaras, are still called

Alex Shams

seyyedreza

Trippy Tehran, part two.These stairs are painted with Esfand Bafi, a charm common in Iran to protect from the evil eye, similar to nazar.Esfand bafi refers to the dried seeds

Suede Santoro 👣

suede_santoro

Neanderthals or Homo Neanderthalensis were archaic subhumans that existed 100,000 years ago in Western Asia. A degenerate seed of the Homo Habilis that migrated out of Africa into West/Central Asia

Dr. Ife Sinachi #BlackLivesMatter!

DiplomaticIfe

'...#Pangolins were once a prized item in the markets of #Gabon's capital Libreville, but bushmeat sellers have started hiding the small, scaly mammals behind boar legs and porcupine carcasses...'https://www.france24.com/en/20200316-pango

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trevmuchedzi

Friday knowledge shareToday I came across an interesting business strategy / investment concept called Playing A Game of “Go” courtesy of @HaydenCapital An overview - In the game, a player

Tennille (تينيل) is decolonising the TL 🇧🇭🇹🇹

tennillehannah_

We need to have a serious discussion about how housemaids and 'labourers' from the African subcontinent, South Asia and South East Asia are mistreated in the Middle East, especially but

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Countries in the world where the belief in the "Evil Eye" is common The belief in the Evil Eye is also common among some communities in the USA Nazars are

@tdkean

tdkean

1/ In our latest report for @crisisgroup, @rshorsey and I tackle the tricky subject of ethnicity and conflict. The report features three case studies that are worth diving into if

James

TSLAFanMtl

1/ $TSLA benefits greatly from Elon Musk's position as SpaceX CEO.A) FREE ADVERTISING: What better way to generate advertising, on a global scale, than a rocket launch? With SpaceX-branded Model

Jarrett Blanc

JarrettBlanc

1/ Afghanistan's two generation long civil war has included an endless, numbing list of atrocities. But even against that terrible background, the attack yesterday on a maternity ward stands out