#Discourse

A collection of diaries from a soldier in the 150th Ohio, Samuel Folsom, got auctioned off last week -- too rich for my blood, but the auctioneers posted excerpts online
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So a friend suggested I make a thread to pull together some of the things I've been yelling about regarding life insurance. In the same lane as all the other
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I've been thinking abt, the "ofc you need to understand the limits of ur perspective, but it still has value"and. Actually, I kind of disagree with it as a blanket
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Alright, so here's my thread on this whole NumPy thing and the Open Source Software world. And why it's important to care and be critical about NumPy's response here. Buckle
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I’m not teaching #Shakespeare’s #Othello this year (wish I was now), but thanks to @INOTEnews I’ve found myself researching/preparing as if I was! Here’s a thread on some of the
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The Quran and Sunnah is a masterpiece in explaining the human condition. As someone who has studied neuroscience at the graduate level, I can see many things that have been
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I didn't say a lot this weekend --- mostly cuz I realize that Im not at my best -- but I cant quite get over the fact that Romancelandia was
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The science of campaigning has gotten some attention over the past several cycles, but I think the lessons of this data-driven campaigning has some useful insights for other areas, like
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CW: Media Ecology, thread.There’s a school of thought, which says our social and political structures are strongly influenced by the structural tendencies of our communication technologies. (I happen to subscribe
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What better way to start another week than with another thread for #twitterstorians. This time, we look at the programme of this year's @TheGSA conference! #VirtualGSA2020 is packed full with
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A thread about David Engerman's book, The Price of Aid. Lots of archival details and interesting history on how the Cold War competition played out in aid politics in India
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1/n If you have been obsessing over what the post corona world would look like here are some great reads which I have gone through in the past week: 2/n
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The Depp Discourse has been a good reminder that most people don't know anything about how to evaluate evidence in a gender-based violence trial. So here's a thread about how
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Why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it
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Great thread from @Myles_Younger that inspired me to start my own - what are Google's intentions and who are their internal stakeholders with respect to the deprecation of third party
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As a Nasthika Hindu, I stand by @ArminNavabi , @abdullahadam and @Introsmiles . Its easier to fight for your principles than stand up for them . Hats off Gents. Beloved
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