#Societies

A fundamental error that some people make, including decision makers in Sweden, is to look at a pandemic as a purely biological system. If your belief is that the epidemic
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Kicking off the last session of #enigma2021, @katestarbird is speaking about an extremely pressing topic: "ONLINE RUMORS, MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION: THE PERFECT STORM OF COVID-19 AND ELECTION2020"https://www.usenix.org/con
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#MythologyMonday #AfricanMythologyHello Myth Enthusiasts! Today’s theme is Song and Dance. Music making and dancing is at the heart of many African cultures. Song and dance are spontaneous emanations of people’s
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Meta-Take: Freedom and symbiosis I've written before about how a balance of power between different groups is perhaps the most essential factor in securing a free society.A second, complementary factor
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People's intuition about how "human genetics" works (how DNA variation is distributed around people around the world) and how it relates to "ethnicity" (the boxes people tick when asked to
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Evening all and welcome to #WavellChats! Tonight we are talking about the #WarriorEthos. Follow this thread to keep upto date with the discussion. #WavellChats are designed to invite you to
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The DMK & Congress Farmer Loan Waiver Model for Tamilnadu: How farmers were fooled! After coming back to power in 2006, DMK announced Loan waivers for all farmers. Total loans
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Motherboard CitiesHarnessing the Consciousness of HumanityIn the Ancient Past, until the Current Day, and into the Far Future, the ultimate Concept of the “City” will always be the same, as
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There is very little glamorous about the average western woman. No grace. No subtlety. No shyness, cuteness or warmth. Not sophisticated nor classy.Coarse, obnoxious, aggressive, and openly, shamelessly promiscuous.This is
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One thing that strikes me forcefully right now is that neoliberalism has not just robbed our governments of the *capacity* for effective action in the public good: it's robbed us
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Octavio Paz on Nehru:“It was in the last years of his life. Despite his visible fatigue, I was always amazed at his elegance: immaculately dressed in white with a rose
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1/7This is totally shocking.The UK Labour Party is baying for "emergency legislation to 'stamp out' dangerous anti-vax misinformation ahead of the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine".https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/pol
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Brahmins are the Jews of India. I say that as a non-Brahmin. People have been fed on propaganda of rich and powerful Brahmin. Then why all stories start with -
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THREAD: I'm part of a group that just published a commentary in One Earth as part of a special issue on carbon removal. Speaking for myself: I feel strongly about
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I went to bed with a flood of beautiful Black faces and woke up to see MORE beautiful Black faces. Seeing Black neurologists, neuroengineers, neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists etc has left me
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The reason I am truly concerned about some sort of mass populist violence incident, and then guerilla terrorism etc., if Trump's claims are not fully mooted in court (full evidentiary
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