#History

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

So at this King's thing Michael Barber just discussed this: It's from "The Coddling of the American Mind" and is an example in the book of a problematic university speech

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AnyFishAnyTime

This school board meeting makes me want to drink fuck this guy, fuck him in the eyeball with a stick. TEACHERS HAVE BEEN AT WORK YOU ABSOLUTE BAD OF SHIT.

Martin “Black Lives Matter” Pfeiffer 🏳️‍🌈

NuclearAnthro

Iranians almost certainly have info & skills to make a nuclear weapon. Scientists come & go but the half life of U-235 is 700+ million years. This seems more about

Alia

Alrabeo

A few notes about #Turkey revoking Hagia Sophia's museum status:1. #Erdogan is converting #HagiaSophia into a mosque, a decision that sparks risky polarization between #Muslims and #Christians. #Turkey's no shortage

Lawrence H. Summers

LHSummers

I retold the story of Reagan and Gorbachev and their private walk around Lake Geneva in 1985. As the story is told, Reagan asks Gorbachev if he would come to

kinozhao

kinozhao2

Finally gotten around to reading this. Fascinating & convincing piece! I learned a lot. A short thread on someone with 0 background in poli phil. 1/https://twitter.com/dikaioslin/status/1262420410123071488 The paper aims to

Mark Powell

obfuscans3

Four species of Punctelia occur in Britain. Until very recent years, only two of these (P. subrudecta and P. jeckeri) were regularly found in central England.P. subrudecta and P. jeckeri:

Julia Azari

julia_azari

This idea - that elections should translate into policy - is not wrong at all. But political science can help explain why it's not working this way. There are three

Aoife Dooley

Aoife_Dooley

I got my DNA tested a while back and was interested in looking into my family history as I didn’t know much about my dads side (my grandad in particular)

Tareq M. | طارق بن محمد

Ctrl6

Scattered points, but somehow interlinked:When did the #UnitedStates start paying attention to the Middle East? Or let me ask in a different formulation, when did the United States realize the

Bobby Scar

bobbyscar

In this time of social isolation, a nearly 19yo game called Super Smash Bros Melee connects a community of tens of thousands of people worldwideWe created Slippi so we could

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

There’s about 40,300 churches in the UK. Chances are there’s one within walking distance of where you live. The doors to some might be closed, but with blocked doorways, empty

Michael Marshall

m_c_marshall

Something has been nagging at me about Star Trek: Discovery ever since I finished season 3, and I finally figured out what it isLike a lot of modern Trek it

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Most IndoEuropean tribes did not remember where their homeland was by the time they composed literature. But the ancient Zoroastrian text Vendidad give a list of 16 ancestral lands, none

The Complex Games Apologist

CGApologist

So why is the Spell Component pouch a flavor win? Well, analogy: The Spell component Pouch is the vanilla extract you use to make whipped cream and chocolate chips tasty...versus

Tom Frome

TomFrome

what are some shows/movies/books that have really bad liberal “turns out trying to do good makes you evil” endings that sorta come out of nowhere? i’m thinking GoT, watchmen, hunger

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