#SOCIETY

An interesting concept in anthropology is liminality.Liminality is just the temporal version of finding yourself in a liminal place. When you're right on the cusp of a life milestone, not
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Not sold on this at all. My own experience in Straya was a lot like a look at what might have happened if the American Colonies lost the Revolution. We
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Dear Ms. Slotkin:A thread http://andyhuddleston.blog/2020/11/24/dear-ms-slotkin/ You won your race it seems and now the consequences for the nation is clear, at least for the next two years. How very much
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One of the greatest privileges of working with wild killer whales is getting to know their personalities. This is AP3 (right) and her calf, AP21 (left). I spent two summers
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Yes, this research is scientifically important, but it is also terrifying to many #actuallyautistic people, because #eugenics. (I don't normally tweet about #autism, but buckle up...)(1/)https://twitter.com/NCNDgroup_KCL/status/12755051
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We must separate. This is not left vs right anymore. The class of people currently controlling large cities is running full speed ahead toward a culture that is unrecognizable to
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Okay, y’all, I’ve been wanting to discuss this for awhile & as we are all reflecting on societal change & challenging previous systems that keep marginalized voices silenced…this seems as
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There are about half a million Palestinians residing in Chile today. It is the largest Palestinian community outside the Arab world. Majority of the early migrants were Christians, who made
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Okay, I'm going to go at this essay from a crusty old socialist feminist perspective. I'm no scholar, but I am an asshole, so here is my hottest of takes.https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/a34019494/caitlin-moran-more-than-a-
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Interesting to see the responses towards the claim that the prophet Muhammad (saw) suffered from psychiatric disorders such as epilepsy, seizures and delusions. Here are a few thoughts to consider:
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As the USA crosses 100,000 recorded covid-19 deaths, many people are incorrectly equating that figure to the estimated 100,000 dead in the 1968 pandemic and wondering why the world didn’t
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The quest to create New Soviet Man - to re-engineer the human race into something more compatible with collectivism - has never ended, or even paused. Success may finally be
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A few weeks ago I moderated a panel on Women and the Legal Profession for the Connecticut Bar Association and was reminded that how many mom lawyers have war stories
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Voted for Keir Starmer, so pleased he won. Unfortunately politics over the last couple of decades has become more than ever a marketing exercise rather a debate over the merits
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Consider: the reason cozy mysteries (notably Agatha Christies) were so popular in the US/Europe following times of chaos, violence, and death (WWI, 1918 Pandemic, WWII) is because it took the
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there's a big ass fire that's been burning for like almost 24 hours at a factory a few miles out of town and now the air is toxic sludge I
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