#Strange

Daniel Ciarabellini

D_Ciarabellini

As a relatively junior lawyer who sent solo right after articling, I've generally been apprehensive about publicly discussing my personal struggles with mental health, for fear of alienating potential clients

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

I’ve just finished some research about the use of biosolids (human sewage sludge) as farm manure. The results will keep me awake at night. ¾ of biosolids in the UK

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺📖

FlintDibble

[ARCHAEOLOGY THREAD] Apollo’s sanctuary at Delphi is the stuff of legendsFor over a thousand years, the famous oracle foretold the futures and fortunes of the city-states and heroes of ancient

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

We have a medieval stained glass conundrum.We think this fragment at St Mary's, Hardmead, Buckinghamshire depicts a dog (but we're not sure) playing a pipe (or maybe not).#thread Could it

Kyle Orton

KyleWOrton

Karl-Otto Koch, an SS officer who was commandant at Buchenwald and later Majdanek, was executed before a Nazi firing squad on 5 April 1945 after being found guilty of corruption

Adri Joy, Nerds of a Feather

AdriJjy

As 1. A fanzine reviewer, 2. a fanzine editor and 3. a reviewer for a paid publication (Strange Horizons) - with ongoing anxiety about how I perform all those roles

Aaron Strauss

aaron_strauss

Amazing that we're squabbling over $2k in paid (scroll-by-able) Facebook _ads_ when the real way to win elections is _organic_ Facebook groups. I wish it were easier to rigorously

Grace Lavery 🐬

graceelavery

um... thanks? i guess? do not really know how to respond to this. except to point out, once more, that people knew what women were before we knew what gametes

Rachael H Funnell

The_RHF

What do you get when a fish eats a frog that ate a fish? Thanks @mjbernt and the CT scanner at the @AMNH we now know. Thread, sources via @IFLScience:https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ct-shows-its-a-fisheatfrog-frogeatfish-world

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

"There is no connection between Issac Newton/British Universities and Jesuit missionaries. Thus Newton could not have learned calculus from them"- A commentator challenged me.A silly claim. But here are the

Adjacent Possible

Sage_Opinion

If you are walking along a deserted beach early one morning and encounterd a few dozen large stones on the sand, arranged to spell the word "Hello", would you assume

Nexus Consulting

funwithfundas

"I was thrilled by the fellow's fragile health,powerful eyes, and chiselled face. The dark skin...was an advantage." K Balachander on a young man he cast in Apoorva Raagangal, which released

P H Lee

P_H_Lee

So I watched the musical Pippin for the first time yesterday and I have a distantly related thought about monasticism and modern American Protestant Christianity. (I knew that there was

𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝔻. 𝕃𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤𝕖𝕪 🌈

wdlindsy

"The challenge we’re facing isn’t that millions of hapless and benighted yokels have been bamboozled by disinformation. It’s that millions of otherwise ordinary people from many walks of life—including many

RDCEP

RDCEPorg

Two centuries of energy transitions in one animated graphic: see how U.S. energy use has changed from 1800 to today using our interactive Sankey animation at http://us.sankey.rdcep.org . 1/x#EnergyTransition #EnergyPolicy Our

Mel Farrell

DrMelFarrell

Much controversy about the title of a new book on Fine Gael. Some thoughts... as it is something I looked at in my PhD thesisThe three main parties in 2020

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