#HISTORY

Carl Sagan was a brilliant astronomer, author, and professor.He's well known for being the presenter of the popular PBS series "Cosmos."Here are some of my favorite thoughts on books from
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THREAD Alert: Astros players served no suspension for the cheating scandal because the players union negotiated immunity on their behalf. Why would the players union do such a thing? Why
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Honey we’ve been trying to cancel Christianity for 2000 years now but you people are like bedbugs.https://twitter.com/jennaellisesq/status/1275215576684802049 This hopefully goes without saying but history of Christianity and the history
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Fucking Hitchcock. If you’re going to make a horror movie about wildlife can you at least not make the premise based on a totally normal, non-threatening thing animals do as
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1) I see the critical comments in the article here so would just like to address a few things. The common theme in how I address them is this: live
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.@SouthwestAir is a great American company. The founder of Southwest was a man named Herb Kelleher. He was a giant of American aviation. He was a true visionary and pioneer.
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If you lack the capacity to be moral, you cannot be allowed to participate in a democratic form of government. That is an inference reasonably drawn when one listens to
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Re: A. Kaldellis and Romanland (2019). First, I love this book. He is one of my fave academix. And It retired so many dull tropes about only the tyranny of
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Today is International Romani Language Day. Here are some quick facts about our language: The Romani language (Romani chib/Romanes) was what first kick started the investigation into our origin as
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Thread: The DSA (@DemSocialists) has nothing to do with socialism. It has four members in congress, and all of them voted to elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker. @CoriBush @AOC @JamaalBowmanNY
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In all seriousness my high school experience was anything but easy as a Black man. I’m very happy with the direction that the new administration is going in but man
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From Jody on Lockdown Sceptics:Aᴛ sᴏᴍᴇ ᴘᴏɪɴᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴜᴛᴜʀᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ǫᴜᴇsᴛɪᴏɴs ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴀsᴋᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴜs:How could you have surrendered a generation of chil
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Who knows about Sally Hemings? She was Thomas Jefferson's slave. Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, & could not
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A thread for shabbat on a subject close to my heart:Zva Hagana LeYisrael; Israel Defence Force, IDF for short. When I look on Twitter these 3 letters are sufficient to
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1/After rethinking everything that happened this week in #JaSam land 1 thing that sticks out to me from dialogue 2 actions is FV has turned Jason into a bitch! 1
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Hi @paulkrugman I was in the 6th grade during 9/11. I didnt understand the significance that morning. As a Palestinian I was accustomed to watching tragedy unfold on TV. When
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