#CONTEMPORARY

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mnolangray

Interesting that the two actual loci of planning power—transportation planning and land-use planning—have largely been ceded to engineers and attorneys. The planning profession essentially involves administering what they hand down.

Kevin Caliendo, PhD

kacaliendo

Most people who study early medieval history have probably encountered _Anglo-Saxon England_ by F. Stenton. Still a useful book. No question it's important, but have you ever read the end?

LLNL

Livermore_Lab

We continue our celebration of Black STEM history with the story of one of the most important contemporary mathematicians - J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1/5) Wilkins Jr. was born in

Dr Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

drdawnmiranda

My keynote address for the @EastSideArtsBel 'Showcase of Writing from Northern Ireland' Symposium is now online! Watch my talk, '"This Must Be the Place": Mapping Contemporary Women's Writing from Northern

Thomas Lecaque

tlecaque

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

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

‘ ... the proportion of Irish unmarried mothers who were in mother and baby homes was the highest in the world. In 1967 the number of babies who were adopted

David Graeber

davidgraeber

trying to figure out if I'm just old or there's a real cultural transformation. The '60s on seem to have produced an endless stream of tunes: movies, TV shows, pop

Alexander Reid Ross

areidross

Interesting side note. After the February 1934 Crisis in France when far-right chauvinist leagues leveraged the center-left out of government through street action, the French left mobilized culturally, partly due

Selene thinks you should stay home 🌵🐬

seltbram

Because it’s my birthday I’m going to share the very small slivers of wisdom I have gained this year:- you literally cannot cater to and please everyone. So you should

Helen Rogers

helenrogers19c

Just starting now! Cockatoo Island is in Sydney Harbour and set up as convict islandhttps://twitter.com/katyaroscoe/status/1298933750055796736 Island visible from Sydney so convicts on display. On view to civilisation but not able

Dennis de Groot

punchdouble

Many artists and bands I grew up on, who played an integral role in my musical education, would not be given similar opportunities in today’s music industry. Technology, and the

tibaq

TTibaq

On David Foster Wallace, fiction & the thoughts of an aspiring writer. One of my favourite (almost) contemporary novelists is David Foster Wallace (d. 2008). He was an American novelist,

Malcolm Walsby

lankian

I came across this rapidly sketched ink drawing on the flyleaf of a 1570 Lyon edition of Sallust’s work on the Conspiracy of Catiline in @bsb_muenchen and I wondered if

Kaitlyn Greenidge

surlybassey

can a Black character exist in contemporary American literature outside of a moralizing force, in which their moral imperative is to redeem/save/educate/instruct/confront whiteness or by extension the US that's the

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animolenikun

Mamiwata: The West African Goddess:Mami Wata is a water-spirit, sometimes described as a mermaid figure, who can be found throughout the western coastal regions, and into central Africa. Mami Wata

Thomas

Concept2Brand

Your body will never be "finished"It needs constant attention, constant maintenance or it will deteriorateYour WEBSITE is very much the same《《 Website Maintenance Thread 》》5 quick wins to keep your

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