#Shade

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

There’s such a romance to brick: they're moulded to fit a human hand, light enough to be carried, and have a soft warmth of colour and texture.The Romans brought bricks

The Bill and Ted Test

BillAndTedTest

OK, by special request - and purely because it's on telly tonight - we're going to break period for *one night only* and do a #Halloween Special looking in detail

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

The fastest growing tree in the world is the Empress Tree, Paulowina tomentosa, native to China and Japan, grows up to 6m in its first year and produces 3-4 times

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

The old walled city of Shibam, Yemen, has been inhabited at least since the 3rd c., an example of perfect desert urbanism. A pop. of 7000 living on 0.03 square

Somini Sengupta🥭

SominiSengupta

Extreme heat is not a future risk. It’s now. And people who are poor and marginalized are most vulnerable.See what it’s like to live in a warming world.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/06/climate/climate-change-inequality-hea

Order of the Coif

JusticeTyrwhit

(Thread) We can all have bad / embarrassing days in court. Even 15th-century barristers. Invariably the cause; inadequate preparation. I present for your delectation and schadenfreude the 1430 case of

Barry W. Enderwick

thebarrywe

1/ I want to provide a bit more color around my reply to @JuiceboxCA's tweet last night about @tiktok_us response to @instagram announcement of Reels. To be clear, while I

Will Oremus

WillOremus

Twitter's head of product @kayvz just spent the past hour on Twitter Spaces, talking about the product, the competition, and the future of the medium, with a bunch of tech

Ketan Joshi

KetanJ0

Here's a big piece for @renew_economy about Australia's upcoming emissions projections. It's set to badly miss even the weak, insufficient Paris targets, but there's going to be a *flurry* of

kirs.

kirsmu

let’s do an astrology question thread!(please quote, don’t reply) 1. other than dollar, what’s your sign? 2. if you HAD to choose to be another sign, what would you be,

adarian

just_adarian21

The Problem with The Appropriation of AAVE: A Thread For anyone who doesn’t know, AAVE stands for African-American Vernacular English. If you haven’t heard the term, you’ve heard the language.

EJoy

swintersections

So I’ve just started reading “Living a Feminist Life” by Sara Ahmed and wow. She talks about when you know you’re a feminist and it got me thinking about when

Kate Sullivan de Estrada

Kate_SdE

Thread: In this major @ChathamHouse report on the UK's post-Brexit future, India is grouped on the other side of a "new divide in international affairs – between open societies where

king solomon

sulibreaks

I lost friends when I found my wife A relationship can show you who your real friends are.Not everyone is happy for you and not everyone wants to see your

Ferris Jabr

ferrisjabr

2,000+ years ago, Persians enjoyed cool beverages, sorbets, and other chilled treats in the desert, even in the searing heat of summer.How?With this: an ancient refrigerator called a Yakhchāl ("ice

Aleksandar Brezar

brezaleksandar

I usually don't like to post on social media on July 11. I like to take a step back to reflect on the Srebrenica genocide, leaving the space for the

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