#European

Last week I spoke with a social worker supporting Roma in Romania. She speaks the language & loves the people but called the state of womens & girls rights abysmal.
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When Omar didn't vote to recognize the Armenian genocide, her rationale was that "accountability & recognition of genocide should not be used as a cudgel in a political fight," but
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1/ Hi! @astro_jcm here again. As promised, today I’d like to take you on a virtual tour of Paranal Observatory, where I worked for almost 7 years. Wanna join me?(
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The 10 most iconic moments in Xavi's career [THREAD] Barcelona DebutLouis van Gaal handed him his debut with the Blaugrana on August 18, 1998, in a game against Real
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Today excited to join CitizenLab's "Democracy as commons: European landscape of new forms of citizens co-creation and participation" to speak about co-creation, sensemaking, new collaborative forms of organising. Key question:
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DID YOU KNOW: In 1998 when HIV/AIDS was still in its pandemic stage, the medication for it cost more in SA than it did in Sweden and UK. The South
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Algebra (Bijaganita) came from India and was described by Al-Khwarizmi based on translations from Sanskrit. European historians then called him the "inventor of Algebra."In @MeruPrastara's upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan,
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Euro-Africans (The mix-race children of European men and West African women.) were able to criss-cross the Atlantic. Some were very wealthy because of their background. Like Anne Rossignol. Anne was
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This is a really good thread by @TheSteamboatGuy (who I think y'all should follow) and something I need to think about in more depth.https://twitter.com/TheSteamboatGuy/status/1357009973654523909 I am in a very privileged
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Thread: 1 It’s so upsetting to read what’s unfolding at Little Collin’s CBD dispensary @little_cbd. Last week their Kilkenny cafe was raided and they were advised that their products which
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.@facebook announced a bunch of efforts to combat electoral interference (mostly aimed at US). There’s lots to unpack here. Giddy up. So what is FB doing? Efforts focused on
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Some of the framing around impoverished countries not getting adequate vaccine doses center on this being bad for wealthy countries because there will be ongoing reservoirs of disease/ more mutations
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Great article with Jonathan Sibilia, our partner responsible for the Fund of Funds Program, as he joins Francesco Perticarari @SiliconLondon to review their VC fund deck and give advice as
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Pecan trivia: 1) The actual correct pronunciation of pecan comes from the 1st people to give it a name—the Native Americans. Here’s the story:Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza DeVaca along
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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Quick thread on Barr’s firing of USA Berman. It’s clear that both he and Trump are scared. This is a desperate move. However, it will not be effective in terms
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