#Belief

Peter McCormack

PeterMcCormack

An observation of the political process and its inherent flaws which we’re all gamed into.A thread 1/ Politicians create a false choice on the most important topics of the

The Strix

the_strix

A followup to yesterday's thread: Mythos and LogosTwo ways of understanding the world, and why we as humans need both. https://twitter.com/Frevilo1/status/1292452650542407681 Mythos and Logos are Greek words. They both roughly

Chirag Chinnappa

ChinnappaChirag

Over the past 24hrs, SM has been flooded by posts on Education Policy in India, with the #NEP2020 at the centre of everything. Seems fair.But with so many media houses

No(pe)na(h)

NonaMirana

The parallels between the abuses in eSports in comparison to Britwrestling are saddening. The more I read, the more it’s obvious things need to be done not just to protect

Dr. Octavia Cade

OJCade

So, #NewZealand. Not to point fingers, but we may actually be one of the last sane, safe places in the world right now. Which means we need to lift our

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

Just yesterday, @lobahuisa and I were discussing the religious and cultural syncretism that existed in Mesoamerica before the Spanish invasion.When the Mexicah arrived in Anahuac (the Valley of Mexico), they

Julie

JuliaFtacek

Lot of attention being drawn to Rowling's claim that she "might have tried to transition" if she knew about it when she was younger. It's an intriguing claim that mirrors

Eric Bossi

ebosshoops

Score one for the teams and coaches that preach culture and character with the pick of Isaiah Stewart. We can never truly know a kid, but I feel pretty confident

Samuel Brealey

SamuelBrealey

MEGA THREAD:- Marketing for small businesses is not about jumping straight into tactics. There is a sad belief that marketing properly is only possible for larger businesses, with huge budgets

Rudi Eliott Lockhart

ThisisRudi

Very disappointed to read this. Fiona Bruce has a poor record when it comes to being inclusive of non-religious peopleWhen I worked in religious education she became Chair of the

CHAUNCEY SUGARSWEETS

yourpalchauncey

hi i want to talk about q anon. i joke a lot but as (not to show my ass too much) someone who studies identity and the self for a

macrocephalopod

macrocephalopod

A wrong belief that many otherwise smart people have is that index funds are “momentum investors” i.e. they mechanically buy more as prices rise and sell when prices fall (example

Spoonerist Forklore

obscuramus

Is Remdesivir a cure all? There are several treatments that have been demonstrated via high quality RCTs to reduce mortality. Never mind IVM, even HCQ+Zithro had stronger evidence of stronger

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

This was a good post, and the Pozen-Scheppele paper it relies on is eye-opening (Kim was my office neighbor at Princeton, and posted about Hungary on my blog). But I

May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)

maidensblade

Sometime soon I’d like to write an essay breaking down why I disagree with the belief that magic is just mystified science. More specifically, the whole “science is just magic

Jonathan Hopkin

jrhopkin

Conservatives in many democracies, including the US and the UK, have given up on conservative values in favour of a fantasy world of invention and denialism. Where anything that is

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