#Literature

A comment I received about Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) & autism has made me reflect on if PDA is a good defense against FII. The answer I get is
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Just bought a copy of Dr. Leilani Sabzalian's (@leilanisabz) new book to help me analyze children/teen books about Sacagawea. It includes lesson plans that push against the ways the Lewis
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People should study a language not because it expands income but horizons. I speak Japanese, Vietnamese & basic Mandarin & none of these things add to my CV as I
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Hot takeLow-carb does not improve blood glucose by reducing glucose intake or decreasing insulin response but *entirely* by causing a reduction in calorie intake by other mechanisms. What’s more, the
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I’m at the latest rally at Thompson Center to reopen Illinois. There’s a small group of people mulling around with signs and the Beastie Boys’ “Fight for your Right to
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THREAD: Important/Valuable information. Please be aware:1."Statement from Jonathan P. Smith, epidemiologist:"As an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we ar
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I dont get the tears. Bare Black women tried to tell her and she wasnt havibg any of it, even the very succint and eloquently written one, she wasnt having
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So a while back I did this thread about how almost everything we "know" about the Minoans was made up by Arthur Evans to soothe a European inferiority complex about
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Storm’s marriage to Black Panther was a controversial development, and for one scholar in particular it was a step backward from the positive representation of a black female character in
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Have you heard about #Garhwali?Sambit's tweet is much more sinister and disgusting than it seems.A short thread. 1/6 2/6Apart from #Hindi, the two most spoken languages in #Uttarakhand(UA) are Garhwali(2.5
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Some thoughts about this unfortunate decision from an English teacher who just finished teaching through The Great Gatsby himself with his 11th graders (albeit in the oddness that comes with
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Grateful today for the small presses, the independent presses, the non-profit, translation presses, & university presses. These are the presses that make writing about literature immensely pleasurable for me, &
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[Thread] a list of anarchist literature i think everyone should read (if you can, if not just ask and I'll try to find an audio book)Anarchy by Malatestahttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy Mutal Aid:
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Econometrics ThreadMarginal Treatment Effects (MTE)Today, I will not talk about one particular paper. I will explain the basics of MTE and will mention the papers that I believe to be
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It’s important to understand that censorship and pervasive propaganda result in political elites who have woefully bad information and thus make bad choices.https://twitter.com/BeijingPalmer/status/1198814005126676481 Pinochet allowed the referendum
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now reading the underlying assumption of this book is 1) youtube entertainers supported Hillary Clinton 2) their bland, clearly paternalistic liberalism is helping the world you will be unsurprised to
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