#Fascinating

madeline odent

oldenoughtosay

she’s in her *third trimester* of a geriatric pregnancy of COURSE she is not flying 28 hours during a global pandemic to go sit with a bunch of people who

Dr. Phil Metzger

DrPhiltill

Showing how concepts change, here's a delightful Science News article from 1951: "Not just nine, but thousands of planets are known to circle our sun. Most of them are tiny

Dan Jackson

northumbriana

Rowton House in Newcastle (since demolished). Lord Rowton founded a chain of these in London in the 1890s as hostels for working men (in place of the squalid lodging houses

Briahna Joy Gray

briebriejoy

Shorter: “Vote for Biden to double the minimum wage, lower healthcare premiums, and to take meaningful steps to reverse the climate catastrophe poised to decimate the planet.”Biden isn’t doing nearly

DIANCA LONDON 🎃

diancalondon

Thoughts while googling stuff about satanic panic: One thing I've neverfully gotten over is how upset evangelicals get whenever Satan is mentioned. If he's an already "defeated foe," then why

Susan A. Kitchens

susankitchens

Since discovering #Kanopy & signing up with 2 of my many library cards, I’m now watching Anita Hill documentary. It’s a wince and watch bc we all know what happens,

Yuen Chan

xinwenxiaojie

Here's the thing about foreign media and Hong Kong - for years the "real" story was in mainland China. For many China-based correspondents HK was a boring biz city. Its

David Paisley

DavidPaisley

#Section28 became law on this day in 1988, the after effects devastated generations of LGB people in the decades that followed, preventing schools & local authorities from supporting LGB young

Eric Falkenstein

egfalken

I remember way back in 1988, I knew a girl (Kaela Kiernan) getting a PhD in psychology at Yale. She told me everyone was excited by Kahneman et al's Judgement

VulvanTheOppressor

IStandWithHer1

Don't be tricked into thinking that neon haired kiddos & adult weirdos on Kool Aid are just pulling nonsensical BS out of their arses. I mean, it is BS, but

Olivia🧜‍♀️

myladyteazle

The first illustrated edition of one of Jane Austen's novels was a French translation of 'Persuasion' c. 1828. Here is one of the illustrations (appears to be Captain Wentworth removing

mania

ManiaTheMadman

“Heeeeeeere I come!”https://twitter.com/maniathemadman/status/1258972930660335616 I honestly can say i've memorized the timing of the kicks and snares. TBF, bwoo-wub-wub, bwoo-wub-wub, bwoo-br-br-br-br-br-br-br bwoo-br-br-br-br. The amount of tim

Prof. Andria C. Schwortz is fully vaccinated!

aschwortz

Two fascinating takes on an event in a Washington State public middle school. The teacher, Taylor, included a slam poem about anti-Asian racism. She says she taught them about why

Dominic Dean

DrDominicDean

Struck by this from @debmattinson's 'Beyond the Red Wall': "The nod to Trump led to a spontaneous chant of ‘Let’s build a wall'....‘We’ll build a wall around London!’ shouted one

Dave Wasserman

Redistrict

New Marist/PBS & NBC/WSJ polls bring us to a critical mass of October live-interview national polls, and to me Biden's gains appear to be pretty even across the board (except

Steven Strogatz

stevenstrogatz

Regarding the natural place to introduce e, my preference is to wait until calculus. Once you learn that the antiderivative of x^n is x^[n+1]/(n+1), it becomes fascinating to ask: what