#Contemporary

There is an abandoned Greek village on Island of Chios called Potamia.Some say wave of leprosy cursed the village 70 years ago and everyone fled.Others say it was it became
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A thread: in a novel, you can look through anyone’s eyes. A daughter reluctantly taking on her father’s crime syndicate. Or a former wrestler on the trail of a taxidermied
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Wait, is the offense they’re threatening people’s jobs over just... the inclusion of this cartoon? A satirical published commentary on a currently contentious issue? What pathetic, mewling little snowflakes.https://twitter.com/joegamal
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Maybe, just maybe, Israel doesn't make us any safer???https://twitter.com/YairNetanyahu/status/1312486990529454080 Maybe a settler-colonial project at the behest of Western Imperialism and predicated on the negation of hitherto existing
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"Why do we teach reading?"My mom, the smartest woman I know, past reading & English teacher, reading specialist and principal, asked me that question this week. We sometimes get into
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Reading Teachers - Below is an example of the nonsense that is in @JSerravallo's best-seller.Not a single reading researcher in the world would agree with this strategy.Read my full review
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This is a cool video! I’ll provide some thoughts:https://twitter.com/defjon5/status/1390350624374476804 1. R6 has very different management plans and guidelines for removing hazard trees than R5 does. I can’t speak to this
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The ray on my horizon, #Twitterstorians? "Archival Silences, Histories of Gender" graduate course. Hit me with your recommendations 1/7 Taking its lead in particular from Black feminist thinking, this course
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THREAD on Just War and Fratelli Tutti. 1/ First, Read @PrawfBainbridge's thread. Second--spoiler alert--I agree with his conclusion.https://twitter.com/PrawfBainbridge/status/1318655976640184320 2/ In Fratelli Tutti @Pontifex discusses
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"What's is the purpose of life?"A great philosophical question which puzzled Mankind through the Ages.That question might eventually be answered.Or notA more relevent question, is: "What is the purpose of
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I have a Methodist heritage. But it's only in the last few weeks that I have felt with deep conviction, "I am a Methodist."The reason I have struggled with this
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Why aren’t people asking serious questions about that $1.8M raised for Aboriginal bushfire victims that hasn’t been distributed yet? So many people are talking behind the scenes about how sketchy
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[Thread]Hong Kong dealer Johnson Chang is selling his era-defining collection of Chinese contemporary art at tonight’s @Sothebys HK evening sale. He says he needs to rethink art for new era
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2 cents: The left’s embrace of identity politics started off as a well-meaning but unintelligent attempt to acknowledge issues of diversity and representation. Now it hinders our ability to coherently
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A lot of contemporary explanations for superforecasters outperforming the Intelligence Community were quite specific to intel: eg that agencies had a pro-secrecy bias so undervalued open source, or couldn't recruit
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So, Mughal Emperor Akbar lusted after a Hindu woman Rang Kumari and demanded her presence in his court.Cleverly,she instead invited Akbar to her house. Akbar disguised himself and secretly reached
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