#Academics

Hello everyone! Hope you brought your packed lunch and some money for the gift shop!Please indulge me: I want to chat about something I’m really passionate about… museums! What is
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1/Trump supporters who stormed the capitol think polite debate accomplishes nothing and thag they will be ignored. So they are now resorting to other means.I wonder where they got that
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1/Amateur investors from reddit took on large hedge funds by betting against them, and just as they started winning Discord banned their server. The excuse they gave was.... *Hate Speech*So,
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A thread on S.L.A. Marshall & the Ratio of Fire.Marshall is controversial.His central claim is that only 25% of soldiers in the line fired their weapons.Several military historians have disputed
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Ruth Wodak is a brilliant linguist who has been analysing far-right populist discourse for decades.In the context of the latest "migrant crisis" & the demonization of refugees by those on
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LULZ @juliacarriew is a coward!Congrats on getting Q'd!https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1276275098870112256 Daily attacks are normal.But, what are the odds this particular hit re: FB censorship push comes the next day? [think bat
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The final wall of the sealed burial chamber of the 18-year-old Boy King Tutankhamun of Egypt was breached for the first time in 3,000 years on February 17, 1923.#Thread Archaeologist
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Today’s #BarCouncil meeting is just starting by video; the AG, @SuellaBraverman, is here, & she will be chairing the Bar AGM at 11am Amanda Pinto QC, chair of #BarCouncil, gives
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Speakers for tonight’s school board meeting (where trustees sill decide whether to close 4 schools) are lining up. AISD police have set up barricades to try and keep people contained.
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[THREAD] To mark UN Human Rights Day, Middle East Eye takes a look back at some of the recent stories on human rights that we've covered On Monday, leading
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Bitcoin has a branding problem. While we might not care this is largely reducing Bitcoin's accessibility to the masses.And while #Bitcoin is an amazing technology in itself, I believe
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THREADWe are hearing about "white supremacy," "white nationalism" and "racism." What are these? What do they mean? Am I a racist?Again, your boys Jules and Vincent on board to help
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Going back to my podcast today with @MKEAtheists, I thought I'd list some of the sources I either consulted directly for the episode today or that you might find interesting
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Johnson's deal bears little difference to no-deal, so it is Brussels that has everything to lose if negotiations fail. EU leaders risk snatching a Brexit defeat from the jaws of
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What is going on at SWANSEA UNIVERSITY in Wales?1.https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/british-scientists-developing-worlds-first-covid-19-vaccine-smart-patch/?fbclid=IwAR0yj_QNOjxug2T_9mVNvLOv9L562gXHj1u1iKqZTeJIJ9_NFcgl34c6E1sSounds as if its co
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Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/another-medieval-chinese-coin-from-england.html The map included in the above tweet & post is of the dist
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