#Contemporary

Jonathan Wilson

jnthnwwlsn

As various groups of moderates in my life come to terms with their current political surroundings, I keep seeing them lament the existence of a culture war—and imply that it

Ben Harris-Roxas 🌊

ben_hr

My son’s been writing a speech on Aneurin Bevan that he has to give tomorrow. Hearing a nine year old talk about why free universal health care is a fundamental,

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

1) Where did the 5-μm cutoff for aerosols in disease transmission come from? (It should really be ~100 μm)2) Where did the 6' rule come from?@katierandall @EThomasEwing @jljcolorado Bourouiba &

joan didion salinger

_trader_hoes

Former employee here! The Strand's owner laid off union employees after receiving millions in PPP loans, spent hundreds of thousands on Amazon stock, and refuses to pay her workers a

Emily Rutherford

echomikeromeo

This year I have been teaching Columbia's Contemporary Civilization (CC), which claims to be the oldest continuously offered general education course in the United States and is this year celebrating

Rabbi David Polsky

MotownRabbi

Some highly Anti-Semitic statements by a famous athlete and former athlete are prompting some Anti-Semites to bring up the Talmud. If you are citing seemingly problematic teachings in the Talmud

Alicia Barnes

aliciarbarnes

1/6 Railways have been described as the defining moment of the 19th cent, they changed life drastically. While they may have aided the secularisation of Britain & prompted antagonism from

Jukka Rintamäki

Jugistoteles

I was comparing what's been published in the Annual Review of Sociology and the Academy of Management Annals over the last four years or so. They're supposed to serve a

Farnaz

farnarchy

on Risk Society & 'risk-management': Contemporary society is organized around mitigating/dealing with 'risk' - not that society is increasingly risky. It means most of the things we are implementing are

Jon Hawkes

JonHawkes275

Part 8 of my Running Gear series, today a short look at track furniture. The series is looking at all the bits of tracked vehicle mobility and started here (https://bit.ly/30596QZ )

https://tinyurl.com/shibewall

Aelkus

the munitions part is just as terrifying, if not more sohttps://twitter.com/farhip/status/1307337087130234880 7,000 rounds of ammo, along with a stash of M4 carbines. see sidebar herehttps://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1307488404335190016 and

gwyn 🎱

THE8IGHT97

an appreciation to the contemporary arts that minghao have shown to us so far, it’s so intriguing how each and every one of it has its own meaningful story behind

Paul Mason

paulmasonnews

23 May 1871 was the day the French army took Montmartre and Montparnasse from the Commune troops... the pink sector on the West side of the map shows their advance,

Joe Fourhman

fourhman

The average video game console review is 99% “wow, this technology is really amazing, but the device has some small caveats we hope they’ll address” so why not go all-in

Tom James, The Daigo Umehara of Dating Sims

iiotenki

I'm really glad Moon finally exists in English and intend to pick it up, but I hope the real takeaway folks get from it is that Japanese game design has

Michael Pershan

mpershan

"[Cuomo] turns coronavirus into an orthodox jewish issue rather than basing it on science"I wish more scientists/liberals understood this: respect for science is actually incredibly high in contemporary society. What