#Contemporary

Finally got around to a more thorough-going treatment of @BretWeinstein 's "metaphorical truth". Even if @RationalityRule can swallow the "truth" end of it, the issue is that all human appropriation
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So. I've been thinking about the "marketplace of ideas" idea because I've come across disconnected talk about the contagiousness of "bad ideas" and how "good ideas" can't beat "bad ideas"
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Okay, so this has been RT into my TL a couple of times this morning and I want to talk about it. This is my field: I'm a geneticist who
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2020 book thread get a life, chloe brown by talia hibbert 4/5- really cute contemporary romance- black woman mc- chloe makes a list of goals to “get a life”
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1. This History Thread is about the poetry of Burma (Myanmar) + political resistance. Myanmar is a place where poets are significant politically as well as culturally. This is a
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Thread on General K.M. Wallenius’ experience as a reporter in the Second Sino-Japanese War. 1/14 After losing his post at the Finnish General Staff for his involvement in the Lapua
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In teaching about women's art, I find that as soon as students detect any biological essentialism, they ricochet over to poststructuralist ideas that deny biology altogether. It's tricky.So, I wrote
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THREAD 1/13: To better understand the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, I turn to the works of a Georgian molecular anthropologist, Dr. Ivane (Vano) Nasidze (1964-2012) at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, who studied the fascinating ethnolinguistic
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Justin Bieber’s homes for the past years of his music career, let’s do this shit! This house is very popular currently i can guess, Bieber lived in this house five
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I would like to share some great projects and resources being run by great people! This is just what I’ve been checking out in the last few weeks, so please
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thread on ornithomancy (bird divination) in medieval kabbalah /0 while divination is forbidden in lev. 19:26, ornithomancy is understood to have been popular with jews beginning at the latest in
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#NVHOW20 Introducing Mike Sewell @Mike_Sewell @Uni_of_Essex ‘Using the British Civil War in Colchester in the early nineteenth century’ - how the Civil War was used by Whigs and Tories to
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It's worth noting on this anniversary of the Kilmichael Ambush that this site was irreparably damaged due to grant-funded landscaping works to "enhance" the location. One of the greatest missed
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“Fascism is when the violence that the imperialist nations have visited upon the world over the course of the development of the modern, parasitic capitalist world-system comes back home to
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Miranda’s #RevPit #10Queries Hashtag/abbreviations list:#YA – young adult#A – adult#C – contemporary#SFF – speculative fiction, includes science fiction, dystopia, time travel, fantasy (and technically horror, which is not on my
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TRAVEL & BANGTANNamjoon in Europe '19 version[a thread with locations] Countries: Italy, Austria, Denmark. Basilica Santa María della Salute Dorsoduro 1, Venice, Italy Palazzo Fortuny San Marco 3958, Venice,
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