#SCIENCE

The college football social media outrage is symbolic of an issue in society.We want the reward without doing the hard work to be able to get it. We're the spoiled
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1) Good morning, it's time to correct more information about English and history, courtesy of this latest George Will column in the Washington Post. Will is engaged in misinformation and
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The other day, on a Whatsapp group, a software engineer - a school friend - shared a meme that pretty much said that rising petrol prices are okay because at
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This article correctly and powerfully documents the political pressures in the CDC.It mysteriously downplays the fact that the reason CDC was so easy to push around is they flagrantly ignored
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Thread – STEM Education Succumbs to the Left1. I have repeatedly posted about the adverse effects of Robert Conquest’s second law of politics on American cultural and political institutions. 2.
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so being black in the world is exhausting. got it.https://twitter.com/kirkwrites79/status/1265653620847996928 β€œwhat does it mean to be a problem?” - W. E. B. Du Bois (1903)being Black is the World’s problem.
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im sorry i didnt get a college degree and got a job at 20 and havent stopped working since - i apologize. ive worked for 21 years and always have
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What I wish @JoeBiden would have said in response to trump saying "we have to open the schools. we're opening the schools":"Donald, have you ever had to bury a child?
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Idk who needs to hear this (maybe it's just me)- but obsessing over your own mental health is not healthy either. [1] I always feel this pressure to only make
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Around 1980 or so, pop culture ceased to be an expression of culture, but instead because a SUBSTITUTE for culture. With each succeeding decade, it has become more infiltrated, more
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Diabetes crisis India: Doctors giving you (well meaning) advice that fats are responsible for diabetes are wrong. Science shows culprits instead are easy sugar( any form including fruit juices, cola),
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What is the word for when you self quarantine for X days or whatever and then somebody else self Qz for 14 days and then you are cool to hang
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Why do we continue to share gripes about distance teaching? Not because we hope it will get us back into the classroom. The safety of my students is always my
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thread on thread on thread, to add this: people sometimes say we shouldn't be so skeptical of policy recommendations based on non-definitive empirical studies, because hey, we have to do
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.@TheWireScience, including @thewire_in's erstwhile science section, has had the good fortune to publish some excellent long-form pieces in the last five years. I was casting about for something pleasant to
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