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zev handel

ZevHandel

I like thinking about familiar things that turn out to have surprising back stories. The modern Chinese second-person singular pronoun 你 (Mandarin nǐ, Cantonese nei5 or lei5) is one of

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

"At the start of 2020, the dollar’s run had endured 100 years. That would have been reason to question how much longer it could continue." This crude instance of the

Dr. David Shiffman

WhySharksMatter

It is difficult to overstate how badly the Discovery Channel in general and Shark Week specifically are failing to meet The Moment we are in right now (AKA why their

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

Conaw

The Zettelkasten. "It's like the GTD for intellectual progress" What it is, and why you want one. (thread) First -- Why GTD doesn't work for intellectual workGTD is all about

Glenn Ray

GlennLRay

Want to see @USPS voting intereference in action? Follow along as we track the insane path of my ex-wife's absentee ballot from Wisconsin to Texas.For reference: she successfully mailed her

Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard 🔶

DivestHarvard

This morning, a Harvard professor was quoted in @NYTimes suggesting that the crisis Texas is the "necessary" result of markets working properly.What it didn't say is that his research is

Louis Riel

LouisRielFrance

Les Français élisent dans de très nombreuses grandes villes (Lille, Grenoble, Lyon, Bordeaux, Colombes, Besançon...) des coalitions avec #EELV, le PCF, le PS, la France Insoumise, etc.Il faut se rendre

Jennifer Pagliaro

jpags

This is not sponcon. I just feel immensely proud of a paper where some of the best reporters are young women juggling massive scoops and raising amazing little humans/cats /1

Nick Almond

DrNickA

Ok, this comes up a lot and it’s an obviously valid point to question the sustainability of #Bitcoin but very few people properly grasp what happens when you play

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp: why didn't the ancient Greeks write science fiction?That's a good question. No, really. Come this way... Drama, poetry, rhetoric: the ancient Greeks not only created wonderous art

Kanekoa

KanekoaTheGreat

GEORGIANegative votes & vote switches should *NEVER* happen on your CNN, ABC, & NBC live news feeds. This is according to the data scientist & programmers who presented at the

Em #Black_Lives_Matter

emmaleficent

So with the heinous epilepsy-related stuff we’re hearing about Cyberpunk going around, I thought it would be good to make a thread of some #epilepsy information that the general, non-epileptic

Julien Bouvard

julienbouvard

On me dit dans l'oreillette que le mot "anime" ferait aussi son arrivée dans le Robert édition 2021. https://www.lefigaro.fr/langue-francaise/teletravailler-sexto-r-i-p-les-nouveaux-mots-du-petit-robert-2021-20200528 Ca me p

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I have closely followed the situation in Belgium and found it quite fascinating and, also, really sad. One of the key takeaways is how fractured their society can be and

Sportsbook Consigliere

SportsbkConsig

Story time from the book:The NBA makes its return to games today. Bettors and sportsbooks all over are excited for the action.Sides, totals, props, and parlays will be flyin, and

Kim Mannix

KimMannix

1/Couldn't stop thinking about the contradictions regarding the policies on school opening from March 15 (the day the province cancelled classes) compared to yesterday's school announcement. So I decided to

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