#Born

I’m sorry but this is gonna take more than 1 tweet.In 2001, two (Stanford/Chicago) economists published a paper stating that d reason for decline of crime rate in USA by
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Imagine you were born in 1900.When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing
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The reaction from friends and acquaintances when they ask "what is your daughter studying?” is always amusing.Art, she’s studying art.They give me an empathetic look and some condolences. It dawned
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Particularly this. "Experts" have usually only mastered a few relatively basic concepts. What elevates them to expert status is their prestige, which is all the media is interested in. Thus
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Today @SOFIAtelescope shares our image of the magnetic field that hides deep into the disk of the Whirlpool GalaxyIn this thread I will explain what does this image mean, why
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The nation collectively lost its empathy when it embarked on a series of wars to avenge the September 11 tragedy — wars that cost trillions of dollars while child development,
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This ridiculously misleading. The source for this is text from the National Portrait Gallery (see link), and is being used by shon to imply that Mary Wollstencroft accepted Chevalier d’Éon
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I wrote letters to both Mew and Gulf because I felt led to tell them how much they are loved and that it's okay to be human.When we follow them
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This is why the "calm down and let the process play out," "this is not who we are," "the institutions will save us," is so dangerous, arrogant, and stupid. It
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So, quick-ish Brett Jodie story since some of you guys seemed interested in one from last night... The team hotel was only a few blocks away from the ballpark in
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A THREADThis gets at something I've been thinking about a lot, regarding moral agency & culpability. When people on the right do some horrible thing, it's often said that it
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Germany is at the heart of the West. It is where Protestantism was born which is associated with the Anglo-American world. Till 75 years ago Jews, Roma, others were being
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Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past
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Just a clarification: you shouldn't be out hunting possums for funsies but they really are *not* that efficient at killing ticks. They only kill the ones they find on their
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For all of you fucking ding-dongs out there who are obsessing about people's birth names as opposed to their chosen names, and their gender assigned at birth as opposed to
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Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She designed Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, and was
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