#Hopeful

4 years ago today, I was on a panel on refugees at the Evangelicals for Life conferenceIt began with this video, illustrating the sort of airport family reunification I'd personally
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THREAD: Happy Birthday to the Trees, A Meditation on Tu BiShevat Tu BiShevat, which starts sundown this evening, is the subject of the next instalment in my series of meditations
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Bengal ground report- politics in hinterland (chain)Districts covered: N24pgs --> Hooghly --> Bardhaman East --> Nadia 260 kms in total (return)I shall cover infrastructure, anecdotes and ground reports of this
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Mostly unscientific thread on hyper- and hypo-empathy in radical or subcultural spaces. Short story, they both have problems and are more complex than commonly understood. It impacts a lot. There
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I think if this country - and this includes media - would just read a few books on the 2000 election and be able to talk about it with authority
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The Bear Case For Clubhouse I understand why people love CH, but when you dig into what I believe are its two main purposes, you find two inadequate solutions.CH might
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A perspective on COVID from a sunny, crisp London house, in a break between zoom calls. Context: I am an expert in human genetics and computational biology; I know experts
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Evaluating the usefulness of Key Passes as a metric:[THREAD](All stats from http://fbref.com  and http://understat.com ) In this thread I will:- Explain what a Key Pass represents- Discuss how Key Passes are
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In lieu of the vintage stuff this week, I've been looking at this extremely interesting magazine. @CCriadoPerez deals with this topic in her brilliant book 'Invisible Women'. Lack of medical
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As these wild & historic events have dominated the news cycle, I wanted to do a quick thread of YA novels that came out yesterday. Let's give these authors our
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Since it’s almost Valentine’s day, a thread on the malady of LOVE (ʿishq) in pre-modern Islamic medicine, including some of Ibn Sīnā's matchmaking activities(ms Vat Arab 368 f.10r) 1/ There
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Regina Wamuyu Githaiga purchased a ticket number 003096663 for Sh65 on December 3, 2005. She was given part ‘A’ of the ticket and First Lotto sales agent — at an
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*Everything* in psychology has a cognitive dissonance angle. Like, I'm reading up on Reactance right now, where we humans will lose our shit if we think a freedom is being
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what were the best climate stories of 2020? Climate writers: what did you write that you’re really proud of? Climate readers: what did you read that stuck with you? We’ll
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namjoon and his skill and work as a songwriter and rapper - a short appreciation thread; namjoon is credited to a total of 171 songs as seen on his recently
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A GUIDE TO INSTAGRAM REELSInstagram has just launched #Reels in the US and 50 countries. A TikTok competitor... well. In truth, a TikTok knockoff, Reels allows users to create short,
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