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Kemi_Bxo

This time last year i booked a well known makeup artist for my cousins’ wedding. The makeup was for my cousin- the bride. I booked almost 5 months in advance.

David Rogier

drogier

I stutter. When Sean Hannity blatantly teased stutterers on national TV, I was horrified. It tells millions of kids that their disabilities limit & define them. Here’s what I do

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

Iyervval

Thread1n Remember Ghoris had a running feud with the Khwarezmi Shah, with the latter capturing large parts of the ghurid empire & all of western Afghanistan. Despite fighting a 2

Ian Johnson

iandenisjohnson

Some weekend reading: going through the Ladanyi Foundation's website, which has an amazing archive of China News Analysis. For decades this work of the Hungarian Jesuit Laszlo Ladanyi was the

Greeno-philic

ajikor

Developing this thread with a list of food items that should still be easily accessible in Gambia that are packed with good nutrients. Got all the charts from Google.1. Baobab

Sapientem

GospelJosiah

Bringing this back to the TLA bunch of scientists put five monkeys in a cage & in the middle placed a step ladder with bananas at the top. Each time

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. EMMY NOETHER, 1882-1935. Responsible for concept of "Noetherian" mathematical objects, colleague of Einstein, genius whose work unified topology, geometry, logic, and algebra. Noether grew up

David Wondrich

DavidWondrich

Ok, let’s try this math business again. The fact that it’s Lo-Fi Happy Hour, I got that right. The number, tho—always a bit wobbly. Last night was 38, but so

Saifedean.com

saifedean

"If The Models are correct, we will prevent a catastrophe if we all stay home. If the models are wrong, what's the worst that can happen..."https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1251588787076952064 Contrary to what The

Pepper Addicted Mutant Girl

pepper_slut

Guess what. You won't like it, but the animals in Redwall ate a whole lot of milk, cream, and butter.... They were milking each other What species is this on

Hans-Martin von Gaudecker

econ_hmg

First evidence on working hours and home office under social distancing restrictions for Western Europe (or world-wide?). Based on our survey in the LISS panel March 20-31 and joint with

Ben Myers

_BenMyers_

Our liberal arts undergraduates do a 6,000 word research project in their final year. This year, instead of assigning a research paper, I allowed one student to do a 6,000

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

A common pathology among experts in quantitative field is to assume that when they are dealing with problems with qualitative dimensions that they can simply model the quantitative part and

Carrie Severino

JCNSeverino

Because Democratic senators have no legitimate argument against the confirmation of Judge Barrett, they have made lame arguments attempting to delay the nomination process. /1https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/amy-coney-barrett-democrats-carri

getify

getify

A little thread on monads...(please don't get scared by the terms and run away! give it a shot!) A monad is a container around a value (like a number, string,

Janice Braden

JL_Braden

Here’s my first take on what’s wrong and right with the Saskatchewan back-to-school plan. I’m using recommendations from Sick Kids Hospital (SKH), Canada’s premier health facility for children, as my