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Anosognosiogenesis
pookleblinky
Ever wonder why women were the first programmers?Knitting was considered women's work, and this is what they were doing when knitting. Women were working with register machines and boolean logic
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Natalie Buske Thomas
buske_natalie
Response about losing American rights:"If it keeps us alive, what's the problem?"Alive for how long?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes 2) And that's from a source known to be less than accu
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Irène DB
UrbanFoxxxx
A thread on ship/boat lifts. Starting with the prettiest — Falkirk Wheel, Scotland (2002) The maddest — the Krasnoyarsk ship lift on the Yenisei River, the second largest in the
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Pete Forsyth
PeteForsyth
Hey Portland: Have you been told that interest in #PortlandProtests fell off after the feds (sort of) left? It sort of did, but it's still far greater than it was,
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mal @ comms
lyriumboy
A thread on learning about WW2 and the Holocaust by a tired Jew: This is required reading and the least you can do, esp if you’re American. I’m even inserting
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Abi Zakarian
Abi_Zakarian
Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a template for his plans for the final solution. At the Obersalzberg Address in 1939 he outlined these plans and stated: “Who, after all,
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Amit Paranjape
aparanjape
While we are amidst this global Covid-19 pandemic, important to remember the great Sir Waldemar Mordechai Wolff Haffkine. Yesterday was his 90th death anniversary.Haffkine was a bacteriologist from Ukraine (then
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Kanthan Pillay
KanthanPillay
There's a legal difference in most jurisdictions."Pædophilia" implies prepubescent (from the Greek pais, paid- ‘child, boy’.)."Underage women" refers to age of consent. Having sex with someone postpubescent but
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Leaving here on 10/10/2020
samisdat_info
Controlled Opposition and Politics. All theatre. That so many buy into it all shows where humanity is at. Accounts telling truth would have a chance to maybe change the world
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Chris Masterjohn
ChrisMasterjohn
This thread is excellent.Reminds me of “all models are wrong, but some are useful, for which there is a whole Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1289724475609501697
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Spencer Wells
spwells
This quarantine has been an amazing opportunity for self-reflection. And as with many others, so much of who I am today is due to the mentors I've been lucky enough
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Kelsey D. Atherton
AthertonKD
The murder of Pat Tillman is one of those things that if explained in plain language reads as conspiracy theory, because surely there's no way that the poster boy quarterback
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Nag J
Nag_J1
I did some research on Egyptian Pharoahs and found that they matched precisely with kings of Ikhsvaku till Rama. The match is not just in the name but also in
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Littlefoot
LTF_01
I am not going to believe that science is democratized, opened up, decentralized, disincentivized, decolonized, uncorrupted, or anything like that until this lady gets a Nobel prize. She has done
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George Gowing FBPE EUGrandad🇪🇺🥨🇩🇪🇮🇪🇹🇹🐝
ImmigrSchorschi
Anybody heard of Fr. Sebastian Kneipp? Born 1821 2km from me. Priest at #Ottobeuren Abbey heavily into natural cures treating Dukes & a Pope. 5 pillars to health best known
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DREADWULF
wolf_ezo
My most famous ancestor was one of the 24 generals of Takeda Shingen. A legendary general and warrior https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Nobuharu https://twitter.com/wolf_ezo/status/1387486312396206090 I was able to visit Matsumoto Castle
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