#Nature

THREAD:I was recently blocked by a fellow socialist, for asking something (I thought perfectly reasonable) about the 'transgender vs women's right debate. And when reasonable questions get you blocked, well
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Given yesterday's events, I want to talk about how woefully inadequate media literacy is for thinking about...violent fascism and the spread of a pandemic, + how focusing on this elides
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Thread: On @USAID PREDICT, Global Virome Project (GVP) and China Virome Project (CVP); some problematic issues with these projects, it's link to #originsofSARS2; and illuminating re: reason there's a lack
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a (slowly typed) thread of the pieces i wrote in 2020 and how much i was paid for each of them!https://twitter.com/hirishitalkies/status/1355471158221570050 this essay for Nat Geo Traveller India's Jan issue
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As we see the Davos crowd meeting virtually over the next week we are sure to be hearing a lot of Climate Change. 1/Climate change is real. Over 2 million
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The Ideologies of 1984 and What They Mean:"1984" was written by George Orwell and is supposedly a critique on "da evil n**i's!!" but is it all true?Firstly, we must examine
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8 January 2020 #MAGAanalysis #ItAintOverYet Friends, The Fat Lady Has Not SungAs we'll contemplate, it is very possible that this message is layered. It may have more than just its
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HISTORY OF LAND IN BWBefore BW became a Protectorate in 1885, we just had settlements based on territories of tribes. As we know, that was the when tribes constantly fought
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This Finkelstein article gets at a kind of broke/woke/bespoke thing which I think is very important to our political culture but which I can't express pithily (at least not yet).So
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So, I talked about action and its contract of effective violence yesterday.I wanna talk about something else that goes hand in hand with our action fantasy: tone.Specifically I want to
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Here we go. We added 4.8 million jobs in June, but our jobs level remains in absolute crisis—we lost so many jobs in March and April that we are still
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Many wonder how epidemiology could have become so politicized. But epidemiology - like climate science (the other "mysteriously politicized" subject) has intrinsic politics: to take epidemiology seriously, you have to
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Great to be able to dip into, and join with hundreds of others, the celebrations to launch #EBBA2. I've been bowled over by the effort, and the outputs - and
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A disaster happening in slow motion right before our eyes. Patch work over patch work isn't going to cover up the organizational & technical incompetence of GTRE-DRDO & the MoD
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Incoming thread that no one asked for- you've been warned.International travel is, perhaps, the most valuable investment we can make in ourselves. This may be especially true for Americans where,
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THREAD:"Effect and Cause..."Almost a decade ago, I saw a documentary called The New Nostradamus. Well, it was called something like that, but I'll be damned if I can find it
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