#Origins

HUFFLEPUFF“You might belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal,Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil." DESCRIPTIONis one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
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Do you ever wonder why it feels like the Internet has made us collectively dumber, despite the fact that it increases individual access to information?The answer lies in the concept
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My favorite picture from the Holy Land, & I've collected 1000s. What stands out about the pic, today in the day of #Corona?I found it in the Lib of Congress,
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Right peeps - it's the last discussion session in our series on #AntiRacist research and engagement practice this Weds - unpacking the idea of #inclusiveresearch spaces. What should we be
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LIVE AT 6 P. M.:How do we stay on top of the truth when we’re learning new things about #COVID19 daily? @Endless_Thread’s @TheBrockJohnson & @amorymusic speak to @BostonJoan & @EpiRen
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What troubles me with the "Christianity IS white supremacy/is okay with oppression/is colonizing" discourse is that it's A. Historically inaccurateB. b/c A. it ignores the African and Asian roots of
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ICYMI: check out Michele D'Arcy and Marina Nistotskaya's excellent work cadastral records, state capacity & regime type.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gove.12206 also @anulolbapnauj & Hillel Soifer's use
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This will be a thread about the #FutuhAlHabash the fake book written by colonial oppressors to downplay and lie about somali history. @Awdalite_ Chart shows what each prominent copy of
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1/10 From @bharedogguy and @randomhouse, it's Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity. I am fiercely addicted to Brian Hare's work and include it extensively
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1/ I want to talk about the topic of "modern management doctrine", what is taught in business schools around the world. Let's look at core tenets: a) Metrics: you can
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The fact that people cant recognize fascism unless it looks like nazi germany is very dangerous I just read a few papers on how nazism was framed after WW2 in
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A lot to be said about the condescension of “moaning”. The argument of Sh AHM rests on a presentation of Islamophobia as something that is experienced predominantly at the level
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I wanted to share a bit about this podcast since it takes a while to produce each episode between research, fact-checking, recording, editing, and coming up with graphics—all of which
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Kinda interesting that the century of American globalization and the century of Chinese globalization both have a pandemic about 25 years in. I’d date the former to the 1893 Chicago
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As the 5G conspiracy theory continues to gain followers it's worth clarifying a few things about its origins and the type of people who seem susceptible to it 1/ The
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No serious person can trace Trump’s origins as an American political force to anything other than racism. Pick a point on the Trump timeline and you’ll find his keen sense
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