#Book

1. Huge thanks to the devs at @RealHxro for helping me pull data for TIX contracts - really grateful for the responsive team! This is one of the first times
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People have asked about HK lessons for Portland, and I point them all to @zeynep, who in her free time from epidemiology studies this stuff for a living. But one
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As someone writing a book on forgetting in post-70 reception of 2nd Temple Judaism, I'm finding recent debates about "real" meaning of Hanukkah really fascinating--so a thread of some preliminary
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Our #TTRPG wish list: General1) All forms of conflict use the same core system - magic, hacking, social, physical, psychic, whatever.2) All forms of conflict are viable as solutions with
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I've been on twitter a lot less over the past four weeks, and that's a trend I am going to continue to extend.Around the end of 2020, I dove into
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This whole controversy reminds me of something I think is forgotten about in terms of legacy- that of Lee.He's certainly a *polarizing* figure to be sure. From a brilliant West
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The English edition of Super Mario Manga Mania (a single curated volume of author Yukio Sawada's handpicked fav chapters from the ~30-year serialization) came out last weekThe two big themes
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#DrBonnieHenry Get it together. #COVIDisAirborne.You say COVID is spread:1. Droplets spread when a person coughs or sneezes2. By touch if person coughs / sneezes into hands3. Touching an object or
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Just read The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant. Man, what a timely book. It asks what can history teach us about civilizations.TL;DR: they thrive in the balance
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Sure. My brain is still waking up so this’ll help. I wrote about ILS software a while ago and most of the points still stand: https://asgalvan.com/2016/12/05/architecture-of-authority/ https://twitter.com/lindsonmars/status/13547777642688
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After seeing this tweet, I wanted to make sure that potential applicants have the information they need so that they know what financial support is really on offer to them.
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belated 2020 reading thread - the buried giant, kazuo ishiguro - reminded me more of wai ashes of time more than i would've expected. genre, memory, ishiguro confronting violence more
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So I just finished a week at the hospital here in Fredericton for a non-Covid related medical emergency. I have some thoughts.(thread) 2/ I'll preface all of this by saying
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1/ Remember, if a US athlete does anything other than hand-over-heart on the podium in Tokyo, they will be criticized. America loves symbolism, which is what concerns me most about
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Share and RT this thread.. Many people mistakenly think "dasas" "dasyus" of the Rigveda were dark-skinned aboriginal "dravidians" –– this is definitely not true. Most philological research suggests they wer
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Thread:Congressional Records can be very helpful.Link to the Statement of Disbursement for the US House of Representatives July-Sep 2001 with Joe Scarboroughs name searched:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=Scarborough;id=uc1.31
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