#Century

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

When you think of the Industrial Revolution, you might think of soot-belching factories and squalid cities.But just as some inventors pioneered the use of factories, other inventors sought solutions to

Rick

SIRESTOKES

GOOD & BAD POLITICAL IMAGERY -- A THREAD Seen a lot of people tweeting about potential infiltrations of hate groups, KKK members and Neo-Nazis. If this is the case, they

harold, they're shapeshifters

smolswordrider

did u know that while Guinevere is nearly always the wife & queen of King Arthur, her adulterous/courtly love affair with Lancelot is much, Much less universal? there are even

Cameron ⌨️ ☕️

Black_Kettle

I am series four of #TheLastKingdom on Netflix . It's...not bad, and provides a broadly authentic flavour of life in 8th/ 9th Century England, but historians will find plenty of

A_Suburbian

ASuburbian

Classical (i.e., concert) music got some mud thrown at it today, undeservedly imo. So for my own enjoyment I'm gonna post works I like periodically, and maybe introduce someone to

Elaine Hernandez

e_hernandez8

Have you seen the video showing the nurse mocking a patient “faking” their health problems? Medical sociologists have been studying this type of disturbing humor for half a century...#medtwitter #soctwitter

Pamm/𝝠𝗗𝝠𝗖𝗛𝗜

YorozyuzaNoD

[ Thread : de la lméchanceté gratuite : les protagonistes meilleurs que Luffy.]Y'aura juste pas d'augmentation Ken Kaneki l'elite qui a lu le manga sait. Himura Kenshin Lisez Kenshin

Marie Léger-St-Jean

Marie_LSJ

I've been having an interesting email exchange with @ivozandhuis, whom I met at the Atlas of digitized newspapers workshop run by @EmilyJLB and @mhbeals a few weeks back.I think I've

Ben Domenech

bdomenech

Chuck Todd Is Wrong (Again): There Are Huge Downsides To Media Alarmismhttps://thefederalist.com/2020/04/09/chuck-todd-is-wrong-again-there-are-huge-downsides-to-the-media-being-overly-alarmist/#.Xo-1CdTM3vo.twitter Being alarmist about this specific

Fred Sargeant

FredSargeant

#LesbianVisibiltyWeek Barbara Gittings was a key, major figure in the nascent LGB or homophile movement of the 1950s. Barbara founded the NYC Daughter of Bilitis chapter in 1958 and edited

Marina Amaral

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Foot binding was a Chinese tradition in which young girls' feet were broken and tightly bound in order to alter their shape and size.These shoes were used by women in

Dr Musa Mohd Nordin

drmusanordin

A brief history of EPIDEMICSDr Musa Mohd NordinChairman, FIMA Advisory Council6 April 2020 218 Hijrah / 818 ADEpidemic in EgyptEvery household was infectedMany of their governors and leaders died 228 Hijrah /

John B

johnb78

Something that I've been really getting into recently is reading about WWII in the Pacific from the point of view of the Japanese sailors and commanders involved. This is one

Amon Lotharingen

AmonTabor

It’s time to smash some dreams about the supposed panacea that is “Nuclear Energy”. (THREAD) Nuclear power is touted as the solution to all of the coming resource problems. All

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

The Scientific American article 'The New Science of Sex and Gender' uses congenital conditions of the reproductive tract (DSDs) to make arguments about gender and identity. Let's break it down

Michael Keenan

michaelkeenan_0

This great 2007 essay on hindsight bias is relevant when blaming people for not predicting the pandemic. With hindsight, we lay out the salient facts and it seems so clear.