#Islands

Let's talk about contingency in the history of life on Earth. Stephen Jay Gould, in "Wonderful Life" asked the question: what if we could 'rewind' the tape of life to
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You are on a sinking ship. Two life boats are prepared. Rescue is months away. Each lifeboat will land on separate islands. Which will you board? Captained by: I figure
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**CARICOM Day; July 4th**- A (should be) regional holiday...a thread What is CARICOM?The name 'CARICOM' itself is a portmanteau of 'Caribbean Community.'The community is an intergovernmental organization comprised primarily
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Our paper on bean geese appeared in @HeredityJournal today! "Recent introgression between Taiga Bean Goose and Tundra Bean Goose results in a largely homogeneous landscape of genetic differentiation"https://www.nature.com/articles
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The Football Association of Iceland orKnattspyrnusamband Íslands (KSI)will give 100 million Icelandic Krona -around €660k - to their affiliates.In addiction the affiliates will receiveup to €130k in cancelled fees.https://twitter.com/f
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For everyone who's been requesting Charles Haughey and Claude Monet singing Future Islands As a recovering perfectionist, this is part of my promise to myself to keep posting stupid work-in-progress
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1. Now that Oruc Reis is back in Antalya, a most welcome development in terms of creating the conditions for direct Turkey-Greece negotiations, let's review the main tenets of the
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Found myself worrying today about Maldives and their response to Covid-19. Having lived out there while my dad worked on Malé (the capital islands) it has such unique characteristics that
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"I am a 19 year old female from Albuquerque, New Mexico. I went to the Trump rally back in 2016 with my mom, brother, and a couple of friends. We
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China's 300-mile fishing fleet which is visible from SPACE and hoovers up all sea life is decimating endangered species -and plastic waste thrown overboard is polluting the shores of Darwin’s
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(Thread) In 2016 I did not have time for summer holidays but I did have extra money.To still have something to look forward to, in 2017 me and my family
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I’ve been trying to make sense of the extraordinarily mixed messages coming from college administrations that brought students back to campus but are now upbraiding them with all manner of
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A thread about Sark, the last feudal state in Europe.Sark, a roughly 4.5km2 island with a population of just under 500, is part of the Channel Islands. Although it is
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Centuries of anti-Haitian sentiments that the French and US spread around the world to give us a bad name for revolting from slavery.https://twitter.com/kweendasavage/status/1386703039705362433 I mean how else to keep a
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WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST MONTHS? A THREAD. As you all know, Germany and Italy declared the war to USA. And so did Japan. But, why japan? The Japanese
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Hello all. It it currently Friday the 8th in my game and my turnip prices are 548!!My dodo code #AnimalCrossing #ACNH #NintendoSwitch Dodo code is public, for everyone,
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