#Wikimedia

You've probably noticed that there's a lot of bad stuff going on with the US Postal Service, the most popular US government agency (91% favorable rating!). Trump has definitely been
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As far back as 2015, the agribusiness monopolist @JohnDeere was taking steps to ban farmers from fixing their own tractors, arguing that copyright law made trafficking in tools to effect
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Good morning! On the early IC5 again. Today on this channel: A trip to an area with a rich railway history. Stay tuned for #RailwayHistory content!Day is starting only semi-well
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By popular demand:BIRD NESTING STYLES: A CRITICAL REVIEW - PART TWOWhite tern-This is it. This is the nest-A failure to recognize the fundamental impermanence of being is the source of
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Remember Howard Dean, the progressive champion who campaigned on equitable health care and other desperately needed policies? He's dead.He's been replaced by Howard Dean, the not-a-lobbyist who won't tell anyone
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Ancient History Quote of the Day: "Caesar perceived that because of the nature of the land he could not force them to engage in conflict unless they chose, he set
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Today was due to be the second of 2020’s #MoneyandMedals training days. It would have been on #Roman #coins, led by @wallcurator and hosted by @AP_at_GNM, and held at @GNM_Hancock
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For a @themarkup feature, @leonyin and @asankin compiled a list of "social and racial justice terms" with help from @ColorOfChange, @mediajustice, @conmijente and @muslimadvocates, then checked if @YouTube would let
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Right now, a lot of folks are talking about cottagecore, an aesthetic category romanticising the rural idyll.This is (almost literally) our field of expertise.So, this morning, let's chat cottagecore and,
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When schools switched to distance learning amid the lockdown, it represented a chance to rethink education and ed-tech, from lessons to schedules to evaluation. For the most part, we have
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Currently reading Yuri Slezkine's *The House of Government* because (1) @Scholars_Stage recommended it and (2) *The Jewish Century* was very good, and a striking thing I am finding is that
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Discovered something alarming in the backyard of Wikipedia and you should know too.I had told you how Wiki editors have created cartels to earn money through Wikipedia (See thread below).Now,
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The Nabi Musa festival was an important weeklong festival in Palestine between the Friday before Orthodox Good Friday and Orthodox Holy ThursdayPhoto c. 1900-1920, Matson Collection via @librarycongresshttp://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/mpc2004001124/P
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High-stakes tests are garbage, pedagogically bankrupt assessment tools that act as a form of empirical facewash for "meritocracy."1/ They primarily serve as a way for wealthy parents to buy good
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1/n. We were discussing this comic by @xkcd while examining simulated lunar regolith, today. It came from this great piece about research by physicist Dr. Karen Daniels on why SAND
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Today, let's take a tour inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem & see some of the shops & buildings around the turn of the 20th centuryPhotochrom of the exterior of the
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