#HISTORY

Teachers: get an “appreciation week” once a year. This usually results in four emails, two handwritten notes, and a pair of free movie ticketsPolice officers: apparently people pay for their
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Y'all complain about the IRB, but every time a bad study/paper gets published everyone is like where was the IRB??!?! So, a tweetorial about the history of IRBs to remind
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I drove to Charlottesville, Va., last week to learn a bit about the city's difficult and complicated history — while touring three large Confederate monuments. My tour was led by
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Most of my big life decisions right now account for a belief there's a significant chance that the US ceases to be functional in the next 20 years as a
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1/20 Stablecoin Tweetstorm- I have a fairly unique perspective on stablecoins... I was an "unofficial advisor" to the launch of USDT (Tether) Some of my best friends were CEO/CTO/Founders, etc.
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Living as I do without a real fireplace, I've lately obsessed with fireplace videos on YouTube and the elaborate, mutating kitsch aesthetic that seems to have sprung forth from the
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A great thread on how the Christian missionaries distorted Hindu intellectual traditions, trained Hindus to hate them (themselves) and created a trove of literature perpetuating colonisation of Hindu minds. Responding
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This #WednesdayWisdom let's do metaphors. These can be super-slippery ways of both controlling current thinking about events, *and* setting up people to respond in certain ways in the future.NB. The
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Drug for #COVID19 now: #REMDESIVIR : made by GileadGilead holds the PATENT and that means that it has a monopoly on the drug in the US. It's the only company
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Bekenstein was motivated by discussions with his advisor John Wheeler, who was worried about what would happen to the entropy of a hot cup of tea poured into a black
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Thread – The Selection of Kamala Harris1. Time for everyone to take off the rose-colored glasses. Kamala Harris completes the #Dementiacrat Manchurian candidate ticket. Can there be any doubt about
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1. CHYNA will be manufacturing and supplying the vaccine!~ Pfiser is working with BioNTech who produced the vaccine~ BioNTech signed an agreement with Shanghai Fosum giving them manufacturing rights to
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Folks who don't know history just tweet whatever they want.On Feb 1935, Bose attacked the Nazis as he was angry as Indians were described as Sub-Humans in Mein Kampf. The
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Thread: In case y'all are wondering who at the DOJ is in charge of election law matters at the @TheJusticeDept -- there are two places to look. First, the Civil
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Why isn’t anti-racism the way forward? Because it’s not a simple matter what what the two words mean. Anti-racism as it’s presently understood is all about dismantling the entire Western
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THREAD OK. Got a bunch of ideas for things we could read this year at #MycoBookClub.Like or comment on any that grab your interest, and feel free to add your
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