#Formulation

Adam Robbert

AE_Robbert

Pierre Hadot’s work is marked with a certain antipathy to philosophy’s modern formulation in the university system. Hadot is fond of quoting Thoreau to express this sentiment, as he says,

Sandhya Ramesh

sandygrains

Hi Saket, most things mentioned in this thread are normal and expected. There are many other reasons to question the vaccine approval process, but these have an explanation; documentation is

Sandra Tayler

SandraTayler

The entire genre of Christmas stories with the formula Protagonist Saves Christmas is doing us a disservice this pandemic year by teaching that the holiday is “saved” by massive efforts

Sam Haselby

samhaselby

Mamdani’s new book is good on the difference between settlers and immigrants, and on why the “settler colonial” and human rights approaches often mislead in treating as criminal what are

Russia, if you’re listening...

mathvink

Very encouraging.Only downside of this vaccine (and Pfizer’s, which is also messenger RNA-based) is that it apparently still needs two doses to achieve this level of protection.https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1328308048402784262 Side ef

Nipun Mudgal

nipun_mudgal

"....I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I willNot rule, and also ruled I will not be!"- John Henry Mackay (Poem)The way Anarchy & Chaos is glorified, Protests are used to spread

Tasha Suri

tashadrinkstea

I wish people who claim to really care about historical accuracy would talk about how much we just. Don't. Know. About history. How much we've lost, because of biases around

NortherlyRose 🌈 💙

NortherlyRose

#ThreadLast night I made a pledge.The crisis in mental health services is no secret. Lives have been lost and ruined. Family and friends left bereft with grief.We’re told repeatedly lessons

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Reading this Lani Guinier op-ed from 1993 is quite the gut punch. It was published just a few weeks before Rudy Giuliani defeated David Dinkins in a close election. Rudy

Desert Star FP

DesertStarFP

The senate health committee heard a bill this morning that you should know more about. SB1362 defines emergency contraception (EC) as equal to abortion and will allow hospitals and health

My Annoying Opinions

WhiskyOpinions

An excellent piece by @bettinamak on the politics of translation of the names of dishes as they move across cultures. Interesting to think about how this relates to translation in

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

okay so what's the Hairy ball theorem?at the simplest level, it basically says that; You can't comb a ball of hair without having some hair sticking up. Given a ball

Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Nothing to see here, Moderna edition: Like the @pfizer vaccine, the @moderna_tx vaccine led to more pregnancy loss in rat studies (the ONLY studies done). Vaccinated rats lost 16%

Nick Harkaway

Harkaway

This is one of those places where words obscure their own meaning in the desire to create a dramatic effect. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1292010457755156480 Let’s just rephrase that:“Interstellar Space exploration is a trope

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

A guy came to the sage Hillel & (obnoxiously) asked him to teach all of Torah on one foot. Hillel said, "What is hateful to you, do not do to

Yet Another Columnist

Sime0nStylites

I thought the immediate reaction (including mine) to Matt Hancock’s mention of the new virus strain was very revealing. People on both sides of the lockdown debate assumed it was

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