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Dr. Corianne Payton Scally

CorianneScally

So much positive action in last few weeks and months around re-envisioning rural narratives and policy, motivated by conviction that rural people and places matter. Want to be inspired? Read

Ren

Mandalorian_Ren

#BlackHistoryMonth The Harlem Hellfighters was an infantry regiment of the NY Army National Guard during WWI and WWII.The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National

shea martin

sheathescholar

last fall, i discovered croissants. my life changed forever. lol i know that croissants existed before i discovered them meaning that i actually didn't discover them. I just realized they

Kim TallBear

KimTallBear

when we are told to simply trust SCIENCE---"LET THE SCIENCE SPEAK"--are we supposed to ignore that science has been built on the bodies of the marginalized with little regard for

Michael Peter Edson

mpedson

To me, one of the most upsetting things about yesterday was what seems to be the intentional capitulation of the Capitol Police. I've lived in and around DC for almost

Great Women of Mathematics

GWOMaths

GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARY GOLDA ROSS, 1908-2008. Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American woman to become an engineer. The great-granddaughter of a Cherokee Chief, she grew up

Brian Streig, CPA

cbriancpa

Yesterday was #Juneteenth , a unique TX holiday that spread across the country. I grew up learning the basics about it but yesterday I spent some time learning the nuances

Andrew Trueblood

atrueblood

Well, in the midst of a pandemic, the President decided to prioritize foisting his tastes upon the American public through an executive order, which was first floated in February...and I

SmithsonianWLS

SmithsonianWls

In this field video from a few years ago, ichthyologists Leonardo Dávila Panduro and Morgan Ruiz Tafur, along with Achuar community leader Sem Flores & Wampis community leader Fernando Shenkian,

Mummymania Mondays!

mummymaniafacts

It’s time for Mummymania Mondays! #mummymaniamondays today’s theme: what is a Mummymania? (A thread) So… what is Mummymania?After the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 by the Napoleonic campaign,

Bethany S. Mandel

bethanyshondark

What a hilarious column. The Washington Post should revisit it.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/07/we-are-not-worth-killing-grandma-zoo-animals-agree/ Remember when I said in May that we’d have no more zoos? That it was uns

#Hiistoriya

hiistoriya

What counts as modern Swahili architecture and design? Iron rooftops and brightly painted walls? Or the white and pristine houses owned by foreigners on the seafronts of Swahili towns? Ahmed

William Pomerantz

Pomerantz

Space friends: maybe it's time we had a talk about the fact that one of NASA's main campuses is named after a person who has been called "the heart, soul,

Robert McNees

mcnees

Computer science pioneer and United States Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper was born #OTD in 1906. As far as I’m aware, she is the only person who has both a

Robert McNees

mcnees

The mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815. The fools at the academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Have you seen this website? Have you looked at the content? What do you think?I mean, an anti-racism website that only has RACIAL DISCRIMINATION on it. https://www.portseattle.org/blog/anti-racism-resources https://twitter.com/Trinhnomics/s

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