#Understanding

I want to talk a bit about how Dr. Philip A. Shaw of the University of Leicester, primarily a philologist and scholar of onomastics by training, wrote for his PhD
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Hinduphobia, Decoloniality, and The Trap(pings) of Identity (Part II)It is *critical* to shift the Hinduphobia conversation from identity to onto-epistemological tradition. Last year, I had an eye opening conversation with
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My first tech job had several pithy cultural phrases folks would wield during discussions:"If you must oppose, you must propose.""Kill a snake.""Make tragic moments, magic moments."We even got tiny pocket
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So I’m 44yrs old this year, and my friend and I (he’s on Twitter but I won’t tag him) have sometimes discussed how our understanding of gender relations and SA
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With rains swelling the Blue Nile, Ethiopia is just weeks away from beginning to fill the massive dam it is building.Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan urgently need to make concessions for
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Thread about living with alexithymia #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #autismI experience alexithymia. It's one of those anecdotal conditions that autists know we experience, but it's not formally dxed or researched.It's like c
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Let’s talk about systems. I’m listening to “Thinking in Systems” by Donella H. Meadows. The book was published posthumously because people thought it was *that important.* The book is gold,
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There is an important distinction between fairness/justice (al-'adālah) and equality (al-musāwah) in Islam.Knowing this distinction would make you understand why I cringe everytime someone calls the Prophet ﷺ a "feminist".
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One of the things that is always abundantly clear around the time of even a modest title update for a fighter is that there is a prevailing thought amongst quite
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Soul ( AThread)Life's biggest questions | Meaning, purpose, living (1/n)Soul is a story about Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher, whose life hasn't necessarily gone the way he thought
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Yale released a study ~in 2020~ where they repeatedly intentionally frightened toddlers over and over with short breaks in between each frightening stimuli in order to see how autistic toddlers
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THREAD with apologies to all well-meaning journalists saying banning #WeChat is a threat to free speech. I say it is the opposite. There are two reasons and a true story
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Everything they taught you about writing in school was wrong.9 top writers explode the myths to help you write better now Featuring:@Julian @JoshuaLisec @david_perell @OneJKMolina @BrianNiemeier @BrianNiemeier @TheBrometheus @waronweakness
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Patriots World Wide,There will be no truce with enemy. There will only prompt execution of complete victory that will change the world for the better for at least 1000 years.Signed,
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The report concludes that "DOJ did not effectively plan for or coordinate with [other agencies] about the impact ... Zero Tolerance policy would have on children, despite senior leaders' awareness
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"If a physician wishes to hold back from the lungs of his patient, or from his own, the germs by which contagious disease is said to be propagated, he will
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