#Century

Rhipidura albiscapa

LindaBariSax

Lately I’ve discovered what one can learn about human nature from reading the inscriptions on gravestones. Of course, history, too, in a social sense. Thread, recalling a few things./1 History

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

In 2016, a VERY bright fireball fell over Arizona. When scientists examined pieces of it that fell to Earth, they found it look a *lot* like the rock that exploded

jess

jessfromonline

i'll have it be known that this is the tweet that finally pushed me over the edge into reading althusserhttps://twitter.com/mallghost/status/1331094329927012355 YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. i rly do think that a lot

Bloomberg Green

climate

Global average temperature is projected to be as much as 0.75C higher in 2020 than it was in 1980 https://trib.al/mstZ0ux While temperatures can vary from one year to another, the

Annie ✩ ⁷

xMissFluff

The word #Gypsy is a racial slur — a very important thread Instagram has witnessed the hashtag being used over 7 million times and still counting by the second. This

Tom Holland

holland_tom

To St Albans - “the fairest & best Town in the County of Hertford,” as Edmund Bohun described it in 1688 - there to meet with @Feargal_Sharkey, & walk the

Bill Baue

bbaue

Thermodynamic Isolation and the New World Order by Peter Pogany (2013)https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49924/1/MPRA_paper_49924.pdfh/t @mbauwens "The general stream of economic thinking is thoroughly a-physical and a-historic. This direction is b

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐞Rituals concerning funerals were connected with the ancient customs of ancestors and were a part of the ancestral cult. The funerals pre

suhaib Webb

ImamSuhaibWebb

23 Signs that you are officially obsessed with Diriliş: Ertuğrul by Lamyaa Hanchaoui 1. "Eyvallah" is now part of your everyday vocab, only to be met by confused and concerned

Ayush

LotusTile

Easily one of the most incredible lives ever lived was that of Xuanzang. Left China illegally to satisfy his thirst for knowledge, spent 16 years traveling 15000 km, made friends

𝕒𝕤𝕙 ⁷ #AD2

bubbyseokjin

racism, that one word can do so much. that one word triggers the mind of how still to this day people aren’t treated equally. there is always something or someone

Courtney R. Baker, Ph.D., knows some things

DrProfBlackLady

Blackademic crowdsourcing! If you were to teach or take a class on #Blackaestheticstudies, as in a study of Blackness as an **aesthetic** principle (rather than an exclusively social one,

Palak Zatakia

palakzat

How Diamonds became a symbol of love.The story of - De BeersA thread The thread below is a collection of stories and data from various sources mentioned here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NVdLjXMse2i0rUSqLvOhxOEKy18WDIY8vSasXOcXpYA/

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

Some of the Mermaids, Mer-folk, and other aquatic beings from the folklore of the world. The nguva is a water woman from East African folklore, especially in Kenya and Tanzania.

Los Angeles Times

latimes

Here’s why a COVID-19 vaccine could end up costing you a small fortune.From @Davidlaz:https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-21/column-coronavirus-drug-pricing When you’re pricing a drug relative to its “benefits,” rather than its actual prod

Pallavi

pallavict

What can you expect in a post-Corona world?When WW2 ended, it changed the entire power structure in the, changed the destinies of so many countriesIt was said that the Sun