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People are hard at work repairing this apartment complex this morning after the #derecho.I think this neighborhood is technically over the line in Marion city limits, but on the NE
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This is the most important thing I've ever written. My friend and family Lauren @Wolfe321 was just fired by the @NYTimes after the NYT was pressured by fascists, Trumpkins and
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Today, let's talk about the almighty Paul Kagame that according to the Western & highly rated media, he's the poster boy of Africa & the champion of a modern Rwanda.
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The Dirty Secrets of #ICE - Part 1Whenever there’s a debate about the benefits of battery electric vehicles #BEV vs internal combustion engine #ICE vehicles, one of the 1st things
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Switzerland-based Glencore Plc mines nickel, copper, zinc and thermal coal in Canada and has partnerships worth billions of dollars with Canada's largest pension plans. They are also the investor of
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Thread on an aspect of European history that I've recently been reading about, and as someone from a country with a republican nationalist tradition, find fascinating and baffling. So back
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August 8/2 Melbourne 8/2 California 8/4 Beruit 8/4 Iran 8/4 N. Korea 8/4 St. Paul 8/4 UAE 8/4 Wuah 8/4 Iraq 8/5 Dubai 8/6 Belgium 8/6 SA 8/7 Leffe 8/7
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If you consider yourself a Marxist and support Bernie Sanders I hope you can reconcile the fact that he:- Had Burlington peace activists arrested for protesting a weapons manufacturing plant-
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This year I've started assigning something I call "Weekly Encounters" where students get credit for telling me how they "encountered" our course content out in the wild. The goal is
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World, meet the #NewBirdOnTheBlock! Today we formally describe Calandrella cinerea rufipecta ssp. nov.—a vulnerable #African #relic species, and evaluate #species delimitation in #larks. Read #OpenAccess:https://doi.org/10.3390/d121104281
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*HYDROPOWER* A thread I just published this overview hydropower & climate change in @EnergyMonitorAI It is a tricky area to untangle. Here's some of my key takeaways on the world's
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The Partition of Africa And the Aftermath.It began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of Africa’s borders today. This conference was called
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My fall seminar, "Field Site as Network: Ethnographies of the Digital" is complete! This was my first time solo teaching & it was a joy. I'm so grateful to my
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Instagram's Twitter integration has become terrible (no doubt by design), so I guess I need to handle crossposts for my little 2021 project manually. But anyway: I’m going to try
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Crucial to this and most other early vaccine candidates is the requirement to keep them ultra-cold at all times: we're talking -80°C here. This is exceedingly challenging for distribution. An
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The Tragedy of Ignatius Acheampong: Visionary and Kleptocrat (PT.1)Colonel (later General) Ignatius Kutu Acheampong (1931-1979), Chairman of the National Redemption Council (NRC) from 1972 to 1975 and of the Supreme
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