Toggle navigation
TWText.com
TWText.com
faq
Contact US
Follow US
#Polynesia
9th Circle is in French Polynesia ๐ต๐ซ
IXcircIe
[ Day 2 : Adventures in Polynesia ] Mechanics :โข Members are required to do plotting in pairs or groups, on the activities done in Polynesia. Activities to be
Read more
Rapanui Pioneers Society
RapanuiPioneers
There seems to be a lot of fuzz about this article. Good thing @carlzimmer added the input of @MatisooSmith, renowned geneticist, and Pat Kirch and @HaunaniKane, real experts in Polynesia.
Read more
Infectious Diseases
InfectiousDz
Hawaii, opening up to tourism with testing may not be the best idea.Islands like Aruba, French Polynesia, and Iceland had seen terrific control of COVID until tourists, fully tested tourists,
Read more
Molle Guillaume
molleguillaume
A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,
Read more
Asia Jackson
aasian
filipino americans who call themselves pacific islander instead of southeast asian want to seem more exotic than being grouped together with other asians so they are choosing to appropriate another
Read more
Iain Overton
iainoverton
Last week, Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir General Carter outlined the future of Britain's military in a speech. In it, he listed the places where the British military might
Read more
Mattison Warren
WarrenMattison
PINE CONES AND HANDBAGSThere are ancient carvings and depictions all over the world--Sumer, Assyria, Mesopotamia, New Zealand, Mesoamerica, Polynesia, and more. These deities are repeatedly holding what look like pine
Read more
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
mapmakerdavid
Watching "We, the Voyagers: Our Vaka". In my home island, Luzon (the Philippines), we call it "bangka". To learn wayfinding and seafaring in our sea of islands would be a
Read more
Aylwyn Scally
aylwyn_scally
Some thoughts on the recent paper about Polynesian ancestry by Ioannidis et al. (Long thread.)https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2487-2 The paper investigates ancestry in present-day Polynesians using genetic data from 354 individua
Read more
๐ORPHEUSโธ๏ธ
DiscoOrpheus
The Seas are HighwaysWhat if I told you the great oceans that separate our land masses, they aren't blockades...They are HIGHWAYSA THREAD: Despite the prowess with which man has traverse
Read more
็ชแฅแแฉแ็ช
Miryam1968
When Francis #Fukuyama, in his 1992 book, disclosed the "end of history" #thesis, he became a world celebrity.The formulation was simple, but devastating for the left: faced with the evidence
Read more
Willby Weeb
willbyofficial
Hot take:Avatar: Legend of Abioye is taking away from asian culture representation and shouldn't be added to the canonical #ATLA/#LoK timeline. Here's why- Black representation in media is a necessary
Read more
Ahmed
Post_Apathy
I am now obsessed with underwater civilisation. We must build the marine tech that will enable us to unearth the 1000 cities under the seas. Humanity's 100,000 year civilisational history
Read more
Moon Child
Deepikarulz
Kaliyuga to end in 2025The timeline also indicates that the ascending Kali Yuga, which is the current epoch in which we are living, will end in 2025 CE. The full
Read more
Meg Pillow
megpillow
Those of you going on the academic job market this fall: I want to tell you a story. But first, this isn't a story that ends with an academic job,
Read more
The Royal Swan ๐ฆข ๐
thedyingswann
Thread: Favourite Duchess parallel moments #DuchessofCambridge #DuchessofSussex Gorgeous in yellow I love both of these looks so much! Meghanโs is one of her best looks ever imo Ascot
Read more
‹
1
2
›