#Generations

For EU scholars advocating for stronger #EU-#Taiwan ties, it’s key to grasp what our European trade offices (15: ) do on the ground, and how much the EU
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There's a lot going on in 2020 and we need to be reading broadly & thinking deeply about many problems. For those of you with an interest in the history
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[THE TRUTH ABOUT AUSTRALIA DAY]- Reflections of a High School History Teacher. Today I’ve spent my morning reading and reflecting about our past and our present. Our history is complicated,
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The myth that North African Arabs aren’t true Arabs[Thread] This myth is constantly pushed by racists Berberists (wishing to change the North African identity) and racist Mashriqis (wishing to
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When I was a kid my family was poor, probably poorer than anybody you've ever metWhen I was born we lived in a two room trailer in the woods -
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I have been asked an interesting question. Why does London’s Moorgate tube station have a mix of “traditional” bar-and-Circle roundels... and weird diamonds? Well... (1/6) The Metropolitan Railway, or “the
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The new issue of @Meanjin is out, and I had the immense privilege of proofreading it again. It's full of beautiful, exploring and provoking writing. I hope all who can
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Thread: Men and Mentorship1/ Humans are naturally hierarchical. These hierarchies are inbuilt to the way we socialise, act and live life.Manifesting as differentiations between man and woman, parent and child
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A Reflection At the end of September, I made a FB post. “I am finalizing my doctoral dissertation at an R1 institution on four second-generation Indian American teachers who are
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A friend, who's a seasoned CFA analyst, cited Buffett's criticism of Bitcoin that it's a nonproductive asset and most successful Bitcoin investors were "lucky", i.e. investing based on sentiment not
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1/n People often talk about right and left and all that. But over the last few decades what has played out in US and is being pushed into India in
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Hard to explain how fucked it is that we've let society centralise power to such a degree that the people who poison land (and thus people) are somehow able to
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"We have reached the end of this old story.The final chapter is always the same."https://look.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-khrushchev-and-romney 1. You had been told one thing, over and over, for many years; and your
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For those not yet part of the [[Zettel]] discussion, one thing I want to emphasize:The low-floor, high-ceiling, agile, locally-emergent concepts that @beauhaan prototyped, mean you can start doing this on
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Happy #ChineseNewYear ! Like many others, my family is celebrating the #LunarNewYear and the #YearOfTheOx today. The usual festivities with my entire extended family won't be possible
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Thread: Brazil is ranked number two in the world lists of Covid fatalities, behind the USA. But that is almost certainly wrong. Mexico is almost surely number two. And in
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