#Science

The contemporary demonization of "Brahmins" emerges from colonial evangelical literature where they were seen as "rivals" to the Christian priests and the obstacle in conversion. In reality, Brahmins were respected
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There are many online resources for teaching #ColdWarHist. Here is one unexpected resource I stumbled upon—the 40-year archive of interviews with diplomats and authors on @nprfreshair! Students can hear firsthand
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Why I’m probably leaving academia, in one (better than most!) job advert.https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=FS0575 A lecturer position, which is the level I should hopefully be trying to move onto, but here's the
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I have a silly brand. @emmanuales is sillyIt’s kitsch, it’s quirky, it’s a bit Ned Flanders, it’s fun.But it expresses my irreverent humour through the eyes of my personal faith
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Is re-instituting lockdowns necessary to stop rapidly rising #COVID19 cases globally?Answer: No. But we're failing at 2 other approaches, due to poor messaging, human behavior & limited public health capacity.Deaths
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New WP on attitudes about COVID-19! https://psyarxiv.com/zhjkp/  - Political polarization is stronger in the U.S. than U.K. - But misperceptions are more strongly predicted by IQ than ideology (even in
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Eschatology thread. An enumeration of the ways the world will end. If we know the beginning and we know the end then we know our place in the world. Eschatology
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STOP #FakeNews/#CalomnieOrdinaire THREAD#Gilead , c'est tout petit joueur dans les collaborations avec les pros de santé : 63 M€ vs 874 M€ pour #Sanofi n°1 ! et du monde
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1/6 ROCKY MARSHESThe Patagonian #RockySaltMarshes develop on top of wave-cut platforms of sedimentary rock highly exposed to wave action and commonly dominated by a dwarf ecotype of the austral cordgrass
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Planning for your startup ride? “Get ready with the marketing vaccination first”A thread https://activeashraf.com/planning-for-your-startup-ride-get-ready-with-the-marketing-vaccination-first/ Hello amazing readers, Since you reached
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I like David. He’s smart. But he misses the fundamental problem with streaming. It doesn’t matter that in aggregate more money is (lately) going to rights holders. The problem is
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1/7 A short, updated & ongoing thread about the #ClimateEmergency #wildfires exposing the #disinformation being spread by HORDES of #DenialMachine #trollers.Please bookmark, read & share often/widely, folks.Help fight back against
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Telling people to "lose weight" to survive COVID-19 is in really bad taste and stupid as well, because it: 1. Won't work if "you will die early from heart disease,
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Story time. An adrenaline pumping tale of indifference, near-tragedy and redemption. This is the story of how I knew I was capable of great love with a pair of freshwater
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It was easy to radicalize the GOP: They know they don’t have the votes, so they became proponents of propaganda, fraud, con men, Russian money and cyberterrorism, white supremacy and
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This here is very fair comment - and why I talk about things like public finance of construction, public ownership of utilities, standardisation on a single design, etc etc.Is it
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