#Humans

A lot of folks have been writing about ableist language and what that means. My semantically obsessed brain starts with the words we as #a11y advocates and pracitioners use. Disabled
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GOOD news—if you have certain Neanderthal DNA & get #COVID19. People with certain Neanderthal genes on chromosome 12 have lower rates of ICU. This region encodes proteins that activate
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Don’t think anyone has really reckoned with the mass experiment in atomization underway in AmericaNo humans have ever attempted to live this far apart from each other. Like where there
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So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational
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1/ So here's the thing, when we're talking about #SciComm (or any public comm), some nuance is necessarily lost because we're trying to remove the irrationality of human behaviour and
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[1] Remote Viewing (RV) is the practice of sensing or seeking impressions about the energetic signature of a distant or unseen target, using activated skill sets inherent within Higher Sensory
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Short thread about this beautiful memoir by @ben_watt, which I finally felt ready to read six years after it came out: The other night I talked to @herdyshepherd1 & @kathrynaalto
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Cats are the smartest of them all. They trained humans to provide them with food and shelter, and spend the whole day seeking pleasure and thrill. I looked deep into
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People are all upset at Twitter for the current situation but not themselves for letting tech giants create a monopoly over the software we use each day. You think I
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A little perspective on Covid panic:Disclaimer: This isn't a thread shaming anyone who tells their story. This is not a thread claiming Covid doesn't exist. It does and is devastating
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1/8) I know no good can come from questioning Kingdom Hearts Logic, but I don’t want to carry this into 2021. A THREAD.Okay, SO. In Kingdom Hearts 1, when SDG
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Neo isn’t The One: A Thread Let’s start with a refresher of The Matrix. When the movie first begins, we are introduced to Thomas Anderson, he’s a hacker named Neo.
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Ackah Blay-Miezah will go down as one of the most cunning humans to grace the face of this earth. This guy didn’t just speak nine languages and wasn’t one of
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just a small thread about polyamory and non monogamy: polyamory is just one type of non monogamy. non monogamy can be anything like open relationships, swinging or polyamory etc. the
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A Yorkshire laboratory is trying to find out where a rare parrot has come from If it was bred in captivity then there’s no problem.If it was illegally trafficked
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Please stop using female to describe women. I am constantly hearing people refer to men as men and women as female in the same sentence! See thread for the reasons
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