#Literature

It's interesting (and depressing) to grapple with the question of what America's response to the COVID-19 pandemic says about humans more generally. A few thoughts. (1/16) The received view of
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Just started reading the new Yale report on the future of its humanities grad programs. Its recommendations might freak people out but from my POV having run a small grad
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A new paper on pre-european contact between Polynesians and Native Americans is out today in Nature. I rarely do this on Twitter but regarding this is my area of expertise,
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We've posted an updated version of @ScientistShrimp @sckales TMPRSS2 @biorxivpreprint with some new information about active enzyme concentration in the assay. We also show the camostat metabolite is almost as
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Top 10 largest dog breeds in the world 2020.A Thread.Make sure you share 1. Caucasian Shepherd DogThe Caucasian Shepherd Dog is a breed originating from ancient Caucasus dogs. The
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My Favorite Reading Quotes1. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” — Descartes2. “If you only read the books that
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THREAD: Media concern about parties straying from the center seems to be strictly reserved for Democrats. In fact, Googling "Are Republicans moving too far right?" results almost exclusively in articles
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Dear Ben,@BenHaughWe understand the important of Source & know that you went to the 'official' body for women's issues in Ireland.However, they had NOTHING to do with this. Grassroots campaigners
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Lord Sumption tells Stage 4 cancer sufferer her life is 'less valuable' than others. He also claims 'All lives are not of equal value, the older you are, the less
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Prompted by the release of USA Gymnastics @usagym trans policy. Specifically, the implication that performance differences between children of either sex and of any gender identity are negligible, therefore inclusion
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Soviet Abstract Art: A thread. The Soviet or Russian avant-garde movement has its origins before the Great October Socialist Revolution. With the iconic artists such as Kandinsky, Nataliya Goncharova, Kazimir
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“Do you not see, how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? ... Call the world if you Please ‘The
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a (long as hell) #syscourse thread about the neurology of multiplicity and how it shows no room for plurality. see the condensed version on my (very) WIP carrd here:https://muffinsyscourse.carrd.co/#neuroscience  in
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So I fully admit that my opinion on shorting stocks has changed completely after reading the opinions of others (i.e.: the usual left-wing market anarchists that have awoken me from
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Let's talk about Trump and the fascist aesthetic. Read this article from 2016: https://inthesetimes.com/article/18807/donald-trump-and-the-aesthetics-of-fascism"His media strategists are masters at detaching meaning from fact, maki
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Thread on Finno-Hungarian relations during the interwar period. 1/15 In 1919, Finland and Hungary found themselves in a similar situation. Both countries had just fought a war and were failed
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