#MODERN

Hello friends, today I will be using my expertise as a seismologist to tell you how to make an earthquake early warning system out of cats.Thread: Myths about animals predicting
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Why does Emily Dickinson's (or another historical figure's) sexuality matter?(++ a little look at her relationship with Sue) ; a thread#Dickinson So I wanted to write about this because I
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I hate to break it to the fujoshi haters out there, but in addition to yall redefining a word from a culture that isn't yours, your talking points--yes, ALL of
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Next week there is a proposed 3 storey, 12 bed hospice (desperately needed!) going to CoA for variances. It has generated... a lot of opposition from neighbours because it is
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OMG this. Bug bounties are laughably tiny moneyhttps://twitter.com/Fox0x01/status/1290953663737933824 A lot of folks get blustered by the high payout amounts "Look Apple might pay ONE MILLION dollars" but don't really apprecia
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Does anyone in India know this piece of history?Answer must be a firm "No" from most of us! Now please read on.Remembered in Japan,forgotten in India, that's how our history
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2) Nova Scotia April 18, 2020Woman who survived deadliest U.S. mass shooting relives her nightmare in rural N.S.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-shootings-las-vegas-survivor-1.5538491 3) Heartfelt homecoming: Nova Scotians retur
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You have probably had this experience; you worked on a group project in school, and no one did their fair share. Perhaps one overachiever carried everyone else. Why is this
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This is actually in response to something I posted on FB, but after I put in the work of writing it, I though I'd share it anyway.
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I’m inviting non-Black folks reading this to ask yourselves if there are Black curators, chefs, designers, artists, novelists, humorists, drag performers, essayists, dancers, stylists, etc. whose work you are familiar
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OK, so I play board games and war games. Often with others. Sometimes on my own. Especially on my own during pandemics.In lunch breaks and in the evenings, I have
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Today is St George’s Day, the day when the English celebrate their Patron Saint.It’s also a day when woke Lefties make enormous intellectual fools of themselves as they lay bare
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It's 7 decades since China annexed Tibet, and 6 decades since the 14th Dalai Lama went into exile.I believe it's high time we knew what the #FreeTibet movement is all
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0) So, cool — Wolfram is hypothesizing our universe is a bunch of discrete relations defining a hypergraph, and it works via graph rewriting ruleshttps://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-phys
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I’ve read some tweets today that annoyed me with people’s attitudes to farmers & the environment, rather than subtweet about them I’m gonna do something pointless but fun : a
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Dutch prime minister Rutte and other "frugals" continue to use distorted images of Italy and Southern Europe to water down the EU recovery fund. Here are seven ("surprising") facts about
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