#Essays

Oh! I remembered another thing I saw floating around here that I wanted to talk about: the "fallow" period, where maybe it's been a while since you published your last
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Starting a thread to house longform journalism/features/profile recommendations (please reply with your own & feed my addiction ): Gotta start with the one that got me into the genre in
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1/ My two cents about the #XR job market:Beware folks who generalize from their own unique experience with this nascent industry. All too often, they're just trying to sell you
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I apologize for my previous post. I am so fed up with how educators are treated in this country, especially in the state of Idaho. The ratio of expectations to
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“As a freelance journalist blessed with an inheritance as well as a venture-capitalist husband..."Lots of talk about whether this FT article on How The Other 0.1% Lockdown is a parody
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I think this is why the "cancel culture" moral panic gets under my skin so much. *So* many of Americans' false understandings of people and events come from the fact
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How to deal with friends, family members, or anybody else in your life - after you wake up. Ok, so you have awakened to the harsh realities of life, everything
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2019 book thread 1. Lo Terciario/The Tertiary - Raquel Salas Rivera 2. Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom 3. Severance - Ling Ma 4. Sick: A
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1.Sanskrit language has been popular and used extensively in south India since historic period. On this International Sanskrit Day let’s see the patronage extended by the imperial chOla to this
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Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed to the US Supreme Court on Monday, unless something outrageous happens to stop it. With her confirmation, the US is on the threshold of
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https://familycourtmatters.org/?s=Mitrany+&submit=Search. (Replace Mitrany w Ruml in above url)Maybe better to browse my TOCs (plural, by blog year) becuz older posts may lack abbrev. codes (scrolling), but topix of #Functionalism in
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Wearing face masks and staying 6 feet apart was also recommended during the 1918 flu epidemic in the Twin Cities (the 6 feet exactly figure was surprising to me): https://www.influenzaarchive.org/f/flu/cities/city-stpaul.html#
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.@l_wang_cen is one of a kind, and all of us @cenmag sure are going to miss her. Here are some of the incredible, important stories Linda has written and edited
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Critical race theory is actually a particular grouping of scholarship and methodology. It’s not just an ethnic studies idpol boogeyman Alright y'all time for a Critical Race Theory reading list.
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It will come as a great shock, I’m sure, that this segment substantially misconstrues and misrepresents Franklin’s position on freedom of the press. Shall we thread? We shall. /1https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1384856095097774081
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I wasn't able to speak openly about who I was for the first 27 years of my life. because of transphobic "free speech". here's my response to "A Letter on
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