#Race

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Nancy Pelosi wants to remove 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol. So, who are we talking about?First on the list is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Second, Robert E.

v ness: global pomegranate

theoctopiehole

There Were Brown People In Ancient Rome (Which Was A Multicultural Empire) And So Artistic Depictions Of (Yes, Even Aristocratic) Roman Poets Where They Have Dark Skin Are Fine And

Permanent Future

TheEternal_now

Thought I'd put together a small thread on possibilities during a Biden administration. I would like to preface this by saying my personal politics are FAR to the left of

Tim Harford

TimHarford

1/ What a difference a few weeks makes. In mid-December, I asked a collection of wise guests on my BBC radio programme How to Vaccinate the World about the importance

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

New legislative session, new assault on academic freedom and campus free speech.In Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Mississippi, GOP reps have introduced bills that punish public schools and universities for teaching

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

This isn't overall correct. Lots of what are casted as insurmountable problems are basic modeling questions. If they are actually completely ignored, then ya, that shop has a bad model,

Philipp96

Philippp96

I've noticed that a lot of people my age don't know anything about the Holocaust, or worse, even make jokes about it. I decided to write a thread about why

Alex Smith

alexjmssmith

Hmm, I can think of many "points" for cell-based meat. It's a shame that this piece didn't mention how alt meat can mitigate deforestation, air/water pollution, antibiotic resistance, the welfare

Wild_Rodent

RodentWild

Ah, another patronising white British lady insisting younger trans inclusive feminists are naive and wrong. The reason they don't understand the "biological basis of our oppression" is they haven't had

Erica Gies

egies

"SLOW WATER" is what I'm calling the way we can adapt to avoid the increased flood risk of 48 percent of global land area by 2100, and 52% of the

Vivek Raju

vivekraju93

A little-known OTT app that is only 10 months old and with content only in one language has raked up 5M+ downloads on Play Store with a rating of 4.5

Joanne Hammond

KamloopsArchaeo

As a settler anthropologist, I claim the “Cursed Indian Burial Grounds” myth as part of *settler culture*, which is indeed a scary story born of racism and colonialism. An awful

Lights Out ●●●●●

LightsOutF1Blog

Newly-crowned 7-time #F1 World Champion @LewisHamilton has equalled and broken records at every race so far this season. A thread (Austria): New record for most successive races in

No Good Cops, No Bad Protesters

tommykellyinla

.@JoeBuscaino went full mask off at council last week. "The best way to help people is to threaten to take away their freedom.” "If you don't take down your tent,

Mukund Mohan

mukund

1. LIDAR thread. Will write a longer article in a few days. Light Detection and Ranging is technology using lasers to measure distances. In particular Robots, Autonomous Cars and industrial

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

Have been trying to stay out of the Sean Wilentz/Tom Cotton debate about the supposedly antislavery potential of the Constitution, but a ton of people have emailed me this week

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