#History

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Datakitten

A loved one was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer a few months ago. Apart from the usual horror, what stayed with me is how little we all know about its warning

Senator John Marty

JohnMarty

Two years ago today, about 250 lives were lost in the collapse of a mining dam in Brazil. The tragic loss of life, along with a history of failures from

Emily Riddle

emilyjaneriddle

.@pekiwewinyeg has been up for a week down in rossdale, which is a burial ground and gathering site in edmonton. it is a prayer camp started by organizers and frontline

H i s t o r yK E

HistoryKE

#HistoryKeThread MawingoThe name of Gabriel Prudhomme (pictured) wouldn’t ring familiar with most Kenyans. Not with many historians, either. But Gabriel was a European living in Kenya in the 1930s. He

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Nostrafuckingdamus I see that Toby Young admitted that he got this wrong. We await with bated breath similar admissions for the other many many things he has asserted with little

David H. Montgomery

dhmontgomery

If you missed it, last week I released an episode of @TheSiecle about attempts at revolution in 1820s France, led by a coalition of veterans and student activists. Students can

Neil Smith

Machiavellecon

With hindsight, arguably two of the most significant paragraphs written in recent history.Who'd have thought that a clever fix to sustain a P2P payment network would fire-up an internet army

Jacob Rubashkin

JacobRubashkin

A brief thread on Georgia runoff elections -- may have something much longer on all this in next issue but wanted to get some thoughts down (thread 1/x):Georgia is the

Dr. Aphra Behn

Shaker_aphra

The NYT story about Dr. Jill Biden and Mr. Whoeverthe Fuckeheis manages to give the impression that academics appropriated the title "doctor" from physicians, when in fact it's the other

Varad Mehta

varadmehta

Folks, even Ann Selzer nods. She put out one of the worst polls of the last decade, an Obama +13 survey from June of 2012 that was so bad Nate

Dr. Hadar Aviram

aviramh

Finally had a chance to unpack a fundamental part of the COVID-19 prison problem, which has been gnawing at me for a long time. Read on. 1/https://www.hadaraviram.com/2020/11/18/covid-19-prevention-in-prisons-and-the-problem-of-buy-in/ What

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

10 Biggest Bank Robberies of All TimeThieves made off with billions in these daring, historic heists.A THREAD 10. The Dunbar Armored robberyStolen: $18.9 millionIn 1997,6 men pulled off what remains

Krish Subramanian

krishnan

Four facets of OSS are 1) Licensing (Foundations or Trade Associations play no role here) 2) Governance - There are many ways to implement governance. The vendors keep open or

brandon w 🗽

monsieurmoscato

Thinking about this interaction with an Uber driver this AM, who (hesitantly) voted for Obama twice & voted for Trump in his first run. He didn’t vote in the last

Chris Hladczuk🖼

chrishlad

Billionaires are always right.News Flash: They don't have all the answers. No one does.Instead, beware of advice from the successful. Welcome to Survivorship Bias.THREAD 1/ Survivorship bias is when we

Andrew

andrew_54

The Melbourne Stars' 10 years of Big Bash history is genuinely some of the most hilarious sports in Australian history. Don't do this normally but, a thread: BBL01: a somewhat

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