#HISTORY

People forget Anderson Silva shouted words to the effect of "Where's your Jiu Jitsu now, playboy?" to Demian Maia in their title fight.This spoke to the big economic class divide
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A @BrackleyTownFC in the first round of the #FACup thread The FA Cup dream doesn't always work. We were buzzing to get a small team in our first ever appearance,
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For anyone who is curious whether actively managed funds benchmarked to the $SPX are buying $TSLA, keep an eye on $GSLC - the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta ETF. This is an
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Some people seem to think that "higher education" is the only way one ever gets exposed to great literature, art, philosophy, psychology & science. Now we have the internet, we
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Just got my account back after Twitter locked it for retweeting a tweet about Benford's law and the US presidential election.Benford's law/law of anomalous numbers is an observation about the
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1/ @DouthatNYT book "The Decadent Society" is one of the most interestingly researched books on our current state of societytakes many disparate ideas and welds them together in a surprising
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Transphobic group supported by the far right. MUST-READ. (I've been warning for a year that the dangerous, hateful "TERF" movement in the UK is funded by the US far right
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Today, there was a hearing in Oregon’s district court, challenging the constitutionality of §1326 (illegal reentry) arguing the law violates the 5th Amd b/c the law was originally enacted with
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A note for white people:It is normal to have anxiety about your own — often unintentional — participation in systemic racism, or to be afraid you will cause harm without
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Here is a summary of today’s #COVID19AB update: Over the last 24 hours, we have ID’d 461 new cases & completed 12.3K+ tests. Our positivity rate stands at about 3.9%.
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1. Why I Hate New York Times EthosNY Times is as influential in shaping news cycles in America as it is rotten to the core in its ethos. Make no
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One of the most Monkey's Paw things about my life is my relationship to books. When I was a teenager, I read all the way through the school and public
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A thread - lessons learned for primary school remote learning at lockdown? Our Irish national @CSLstudyUCD found key issues and here I overview 4 and give my own reponse... plus
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THREAD. There’s so much water in the fields at present - fields are floating in water. Here in the east of England it’s a practical lesson explaining so much about
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1) Well it is that time of year again. The time when “progressives” nation wide start sharing memes about Europeans being “Illegal Aliens” and Native Americans were kind enough to
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Some identities are better than others or how historians contribute to their making or their demise (a thread that I did not have the time to write the other day
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