#University

Steve Nash is one of the greatest NBA players of all time.Most people don't know that he almost quit basketball to pursue professional soccer, but Michael Jordan and Spike Lee
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pictures of tyler joseph and the vibes he gives me in them: a wholesome thread :D he smells like rain and gives you the softest hugs when your sad. he
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Bring back the Renaissance Man/Woman, or why "listening to the expert" is not such a good idea although it superficially seems so to all but the technocrats in our times.
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1. Did [BG] flip on 12.13.16?#QANON Certain people would be NECESSARY to take [them] down. Near the top of this EVIL list would be [BG]. He could take down (a)
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Yesterday, I defended my doctoral thesis. I am now officially a Doctor in Astrophysics. This is the end of a journey that I started 14 years ago, when I decided
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one of the more ghoulish documents from the @practicefusion anti-kickback documents: a spreadsheet of per-patient profit for @purduepharma (oops, i mean "pharma co. x") opioids as part of ROI calculation
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“A Brown University economics professor said she is surprised to hear the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is relying on a website she started to
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"...we will see more deaths because of social distancing."Take a moment and watch Dr. Knut Wittkowski, former head of Rockefeller University's Dept of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Research Design.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz
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Italian democracy is often ridiculed for its instability but in 2020 Italy will mark 40th anniversary of numerous dramatic events that make you marvel at its resilience to a violent
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1. One thing missing from this and related stories (e.g., "£9250 for zoom lectures") is that the same issue ("£9250 for 8 hours contact") was part of the discourse pre-Covid.
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University of Miami (FL) has concluded its preliminary COVID-19 study, which found ~165,000 Miami-Dade residents (or 6%) had antibodies, nearly 16x the number of cases reported by the state health
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#Morecambe folk have received a conservative party propaganda paper masquerading as a local newspaper. I've had a read through and fact-checked some of the wilder claims in the thread below.
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Five years ago today I was down in Mobile, AL for an interview with the University of South Alabama Earth Sciences Department. Right about now I was running through ATL
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I don’t know if I ever qualified as a “Neo-Confederate,” but I certainly bought into the Confederate mythology in my early 20s. As a freshman at the University of Kentucky,
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Since the quarantine I've been collecting screenshots from my local FB group. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they are delightful hippy musings, sometimes they are WTF, sometimes it's NIMBY bullshit. But
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In the Fall I will once again be teaching my course on #earlymodern #cannibalism accusations as justification for racism and colonial violence, and here is some evidence that those accusations
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