#Interesting

Very interesting yarn in @SatPaper tomorrow. Fits a few pieces of the puzzle into place. If you can, might be worth a subscription. And I have MUCH more to come.
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An online exchange with @montie and @wallaceme of @ConHome has got me thinking about the strange death of the UK @Conservatives. Let me explain. /1 I grew up in Conservative
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Thread on my favourite YouTube channels! These are channels that always provide something inspiring or something interesting to think about. First up - some light-hearted film commentary. Screen Rant's Pitch
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It's been good to see more and more linguists recently pointing out how deeply embedded modality chauvinism still is in our field, where language is often used to mean 'spoken
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Is it just me, or does this widely-shared figure from Monday's @nytimes cover story on herd immunity WAY overstate actual COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the US?:https://twitter.com/AdamUren/status/1389188406731706371 The figure just cite
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The technology behind the washing machine is interesting, but there is no way it will take off because it consumes too much energy compared to the tried and tested hand-cranked
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The evangelicalism I was raised in taught it was good to risk your future by moving to Africa or your life by evangelizing natives in South America but under no
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Darren Beattie sees a pattern between the “Color Revolution” and the insurrection going on in the United States against President Trump and pushed by the democrats: “Many have described the
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Some cognitive scientists are of the belief that we have now become cyborgs, due to our interaction with tech. Our brains are actually rewiring to adapt to the tech around
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Contact your MLAs and people you know who are UCP members and encourage them to vote against this nonsense at the annual general meeting. The following (flawed) rationale is offered
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So yeah. Thoughts on BNA. Might be spoilery but I'll try to keep that at a minimumI was already planning on watching this before several people (yes, that includes you
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Not sure why I care so much, but the bumpkins over at The Orthosphere keep deleting my rebuttal to a half-assed post they made on Gnosticism. A thread. Original article:https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/stuart-holroyd-gnosticism-
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okay we’re hopping on. like this tweet and i’ll anonymously complement you in the replies girl! you’re always so sweet and lovely and I wish we got to hang
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A sprinkle of wonder to start your weekend. The following stories are not about coronavirus. Some of the most interesting creatures anywhere actually do live under a rock —
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Time’s arrow marches forward and it’s once again Jobs Day this Friday. A few quick thoughts on the August employment report. 1/9 The jobs report is the first comprehensive government
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Gaelic influence hides in plain sight everywhere in #Iceland: placenames, beehive huts, folklore, encoded in the sagas and above all in Icelanders' DNA. Key to the mystery is a system
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