#Civilization

Kennedy Gochenour

KennedyCLST6

#CLST6 #RR17 Trajan’s Column makes the triumph of civilization over barbarism one of its major themes. Obviously, the emphasis here is that Romans are civilized and Dacians are barbarians. Initially

balajis.com

balajis

My worldview:1) Short sharp lockdown to get to zero new cases, using as much of Asia, NZ playbook as possible2) Then test, trace, isolate to maintain a green zone3) This

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're

Sam Antha

Aviatrixone

Earth Day Prediction Thread from 1970! Enjoy “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”• Kenneth Watt, ecologist “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Science fiction sucks at predicting the future, but it sure is good at predicting the present (c.f. @greatdismal): that is, the stuff that seems plausible in science fiction at any

Volodymyr Yermolenko

yermolenko_v

My attempt to understand why Russians hate / dehumanize Ukrainians so much, -- which is a way to understand one of the major causes of this war. Thread 1/10 Ukrainian

ΞndgameWoki

owocki

18/ Lets dive into the nature of these coordination failures; If u havent read “meditations on moloch” - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ u should! it is a thoughtful analysis of the animalistic forces

Molly Bloom

mymollybloom

I found this thread really thought-provoking and I’m going to take some time to wrestle with it. I guess I’ve been a “classical liberal” until recently, & now am interested

Sri M

SriMspeaks

All of us belong to Mother Earth. The Earth does not discriminate between races, color or languages. It sustains all.1/8#SriMspeaks #EarthDayEveryDay#EarthDay2020 #SaveThePlanet Herbs, vegetables, fruits, grains, all that is required

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ziamhabitss

white washing ancient egypt - a thread it’s no secret that Hollywood LOVES making movies about ancient Egypt, movies like "The Exodus","The Ten Commandments" , "Cleopatra" and "The Mummy" are

Fidato

tequieremos

“The Radical Changes Atatürk'e brought under the garb of Secularism”1. An old Turkish word used for pagan Turkic deities, replaced the customary Allah. Turkish call to prayer replaced the traditional

Jeffrey Ladish

JeffLadish

Most people I talk to knew a global pandemic was possible but they didn't believe it could happen to them. I knew it was possible, because I've studied risks of

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Obviously it's too early to speculate on how coronavirus will change our society in the long term. But I have a thought about how it might subtly change gender roles...

Yoni Appelbaum

YAppelbaum

1. What did the Pilgrims see when they landed in Massachusetts, 400 years ago? A “hidious and desolate wilderness.” But they quickly learned to harvest its "great store of wild

Thorne_Identity

GeoffThorne

Something I learned young and it stuck with me–If you ever see a stuffed tiger or a photo of one "roaring" that is not aggression. Tigers are stealth hunters. They

sai priya

priya_27_

I've been mulling over this for a while. Please bear with me while I rant! It pains me to see the onslaught hindus face everyday from every possible direction, while