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Some Chinese words “just make sense.”To take my 4-year-old son’s favorite animal as an example, I’ve always found it fascinating that “giraffe” in Chinese is “deer with a long neck”
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I was pitched "The Temptation of Kayleigh McEnany" today. It's a new piece appearing in @TheAtlantic. It's certainly worth a read. But I also have thoughts.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/kayleigh-mcen
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Victory for journalists, press freedom after tribunal finds there is no reason to bar people from using the UK's freedom of information act simply because they are not in the
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What's #BlackLivesMatter about? THREAD. Just in case it’s STILL unclear.400 years ago white men enslaved black people. And sold them. And treated them as less than human. For 250
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Some people give Cannabis Users a hard time because some of us can't recall dreams. Let's talk about Theta & Delta Brain Waves: a thread First of all, let's look
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Sometimes when I engage directly with transphobes, I can't help but think of exactly how they must process me and if they genuinely believe that there's some alternative version of
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The ten points of the Nuremberg Code1) The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. 1/nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code 2) The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for
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Terrible things happen in Nigeria. We've lost the present and we want to lose the future.I just left Transcorp Hotel Abuja, after my news analysis at Arise News TV. As
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There's something subtle floating around much of the collective assumption talk concerning violence against women and children (and we have to start referring to children since they're mostly denied in
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bts as things posted on overheard at harvard ; a very niche thread for all my struggling students credits for these overheards go to @/officialharvarduniversity on tumblrhttps://officialharvarduniversity.tumblr.com/  [Why would I
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Shipping is a business imperative, sure, but it’s also a management imperative.A team that isn’t shipping has a burnout Sword of Damocles hovering above its head. Early in my career
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The real reason there is so much objection to idea of permuting equal co-authors is not, as so many are saying, the sanctity of the bibliographic record must be preserved.
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This decision has chilling consequences on media freedom & free speech in Malaysia. Here's why:1. Msiakini was in contempt for 3rd party comments disparaging the Judiciary on its website. FC
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SPURS ASSETS- GKHUGO LLORIS 5.5Hugo Lloris is a strange player. He's been at Spurs for a long time now and is a top keeper in the premier league. His reflexes
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I live in & come from places like Levant & I have a couple thoughts--not about the election so much as to whether Trump's approach actually helps give voice to
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twitter is cursed because people go “you can have Basic Empathy when you’re 13; people saying they went through an anti-sjw phase are lying and anyway don’t expect marginalized people
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