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After some discussions over the last few days I have been pondering on inflammation, healing and repair. I am going to do a short tweetorial on my last 48 hours
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#OTD 157 years ago the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first sanctioned all Black regiment in the US Army, made its famous attack on Battery Wagner. We'll do a day long
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the infamous Exploding Whale of Oregon incident, one of my favourite bizarre tales from history.(THREAD, sources listed here https://bit.ly/3eOT2Km ) In November 1970, an 8-ton
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The Year in Review: Victoria's Very Normal Timber Industry. January 2020Horrendous fires ripped through eastern Victoria. This led to the logging industry opportunistically asking for government money (its second favourite
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Thread: @henryfarrell and I have a new piece in @IntOrgJournal on global politics of information. Key takeaway: disinformation is a feature not a bug of the liberal information order. Points
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Hemingway vs. Faulkner: The Little-Known Rivalry Between 2 Of America's Most Famous Writers 1/ If you thought the 2pac vs Biggie feud in the 90s was competitive, let me tell
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This was me last year. Carefully budgeted...to have $50 in the bank by the end of 2019. Bought family new iPhones, Earpods, and gifts they truly deserved. Had just enough
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I want to try to build on the excellent points made by @dpcassidyC3, @DavidAFrench, @Peter_Wehner & others about the need to disentangle the white, evangelical church from far right wing
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Oh dear, @NorfolkCC still doesn’t seem to be getting this right. (This is re: the new dual carriageway they’re planning through woodland that is part a significant colony of rare,
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THREADThe Year’s Worst Media Moments: 2020 EditionBelow is a top 10 of common media takes & narratives that aged, well, imperfectly.Starting w/ #10: remember when Trump was going to use
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I sometimes act like an arrogant know-it-all on here.But my opinions are loosely held. I do that to get better and I love it when you challenge me.Keep holding me
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Within days of Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC first being elected as an MP, Blairites were already manoeuvring him into position as Labour leader, backing him as a candidate
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Today in pulp I look back at that staple of sci-fi: the ray gun!This thread will involve a mad professor from Cleveland and Archimedes #JustSaying Directed-energy weapons have a long
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From working for 9 months for the Portuguese regional government developing a web-based platform for the covid task force, here is what I learned (good and bad, but mostly bad):
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β€œThings I wish I’d known sooner.” An incomplete list, mostly applied to business / career. My target audience is my younger self. Some of all of it may not work
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Young men are facing a war against modernitySociety knows if it can catch a man when he is young & impressionable, it can subdue him before he becomes a threatBut
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