#Phenomena

Thread on the role mushrooms play in our cultural system with extracts from "On the semiotics of mythological conceptions about mushrooms" by Toporov.Knowing the ingredients also means knowing their position
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I have graded over 200 essays in the past two weeks. As a college instructor of writing for the last 23 years, I think I know what elements make college
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Hands of Ishtar, a rather interesting and enigmatic Assyrian object are making the rounds on Twitter today. I wanted to show a couple cool examples of these objects from different
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It's been really great to be in the virtual audience for #ica20 because I wouldn't have been able to attend otherwise. I want to start a thread on some of
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Absurd to get all panicked about this. 1) Social media didn't exist in 1950. "Speak your mind" meant something very different then.https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1289333770370203650 2) The article is clear that people
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Why don't people listen to smart people? And they call their wisdom as "Bookish Impractical Knowledge" ?? A small answer in this 2 min thread. Read on. Generally speaking, I
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Born #OTD 1910: The great astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ("Chandra") who discovered a mass limit for white dwarfs, paving the way to neutron stars and black holes. Chandra's
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Quick note: as others have pointed out, plexiglass barriers like the ones to be used tonight in the VP debate (and ones that I've seen used in restaurants in Edmonton
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Progesterone is kicking in so I'm a bit drowsy as I write this out, so please be forgiving as I rant about transmisogyny! I think the part that's most difficult
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Thread: Been reflecting on what's happening in the US. I often feel helpless as I feel I don't have anything new to add except outrage but I'm going to be
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I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE:I Was talking about $HPB High Performance BlockchainShot up 30% yesterday, but hear me out!! -Thread following-https://twitter.com/Mr__Pharma/status/1294560257335853056 1. The coin for the world's first hardw
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You know what deserves unpacking? The dark skinned folks whose response was "We're not a charity case/tokens/woke trophies".I think most of it was just people actively misinterpreting something to create
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At this point I think that the best thing any Indigenous academic or writer could do is disavow any previous connection with or support of Keeler and her work. I
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a big, contentious, people-flouncing-out-of-the-DM-group argument about astrology this morning has forced me to work out what i really think about divination. you may be shocked to learn that i'm a
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The story of Cleve Backster.If you don't know who that is, this story will completely change the way you view the worldI'm not even exaggerating, you'll never be the same
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Thoughts on investing in a pandemic: (Disclaimer: Not investment advice, Not medical advice) 1. Popular Narrative: “Look how bad unemployment numbers are. How can the market go up? It is
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