#Journal

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

The motif of ‘vagina dentata’, or ‘toothed vagina’, is found in folklore around the world. This myth suggests that a woman can castrate a man, using her toothed vagina as

Doug Rand

doug_rand

Today DHS unveiled a regulatory plan to severely restrict international students & exchange visitors, by making it difficult for them to stay in the US for their full duration of

Wes Kao 🏛

wes_kao

1/ To build something new...Look beyond what’s immediately around you.When building the altMBA, Seth and I didn’t look at edtech. That was too narrow.We studied what makes ppl feel *zealous,

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

I see we're talking about how people interpret election forecasts and whether they influence turnout again today, so let me just offer a few thoughts. All of this being primarily

Decolonize DNA Day

DecolonizeDNA

Hi, everyone! I'm Jeremy Yoder, @JBYoder, and I'm going to be tweeting about the surprisingly complicated relationship #LGBTQ folks have had with genetic research. #DecolonizeDNA Many thanks to @kstsosie and

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick thread about a widely media'd but little read "study", the one referenced here...https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/coronavirus-cases-protests-black-lives-matter-trnd/index.html Economist magazine is distinguished, they t

Jim OShaughnessy

jposhaughnessy

1/Why?We are vastly more conditioned by society than we realize.How can we “think outside the box” when there’s a bumper sticker and t-shirt with that emblazoned on it?The ideas that

Emma Fraser

Statiscape

News Outlets like @GuardianEdu are doing a terrible job communicating to Uni students about "online teaching". Most imply that all teaching will be online, when Universities like @Cambridge_Uni have only

Digital Soldier

peatapann

Since the 1920’s the Rockefeller Foundation had funded the eugenics research in Germany through the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institutes and well into the Third Reich.Rockefeller used his money to initiate population reduction

Emma C. Eisenberg

frumpenberg

In light of ye old gross Meghan Daum essay on Appalachia may I humbly suggest you follow these amazing thinkers and writers from the region: 1) @elizabethcatte, author of What

Some Boys' Mother

someboysmother

Social media came unglued the last few days because apparently people want to hear more from "America's Frontline Doctors" So I have some perspective for youTHREAD I've heard more in

Jim Hawkins

jimallthetime

If you’re choosing to avoid the news, or if the #news is having a negative affect on your #wellbeing, you’re not alone. (Thread!)The tone and the content of (most) news

BBC News (World)

BBCWorld

A new study suggests falling fertility rates will mean most countries could have shrinking populations by the end of the centuryThe study, by the Lancet medical journal warns of a

Revolving Door Project

revolvingdoorDC

So many of these potential @JoeBiden admin picks are revolving door figures and their selection would violate Biden’s own campaign promises. (1/x)https://twitter.com/CNBCPolitics/status/1247283975426658306 Larry Fink held a position on Trump’s Econom

david

RedConversation

The word communism was first noted decades before Marx adopted it.And like every other well-known formally educated white male revolutionary writer, there was a sea of people with more opsec

FrancoisRose

francoisroseoff

On connaissait le journal télévisé, on connaissait la pub. Eh bien désormais, sachez qu’il existe un nouveau genre : la pub-JT. C’est ce qu’on a vu cette semaine sur Instagram.