#Essay

@platonicharmon1 asked for my Dutch take and I'm gonna get really personal so.trigger warning for manic depressive symptoms and discussions of psychosis and mental illness. It's also just rlly fucking
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This Spring, I noticed my colleague @Cleavon_MD tweeting about young people dying of COVID.Many people of color.I wondered if these sad cases were statistical anomalies. Must be that these were
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Short thread/thoughts about Trump and suburban housing. For many decades, but let's say starting somewhere around the mid-1960s, suburban governments have moved toward using terms like "neighborhood character" as a
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Still thinking about the Buffyverse and how a key creator of something so beloved could be such a shit, very much along patriarchal lines -- which bounced off that essay
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Possibly long thread ahead! I thought I'd address a few points for why I think self-publishing is great, even if your ultimate intention is to get picked up by an
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1 like=1 theological take. Wow, i need to catch up. We'll, @NickScutari, all theologians would benefit from reading Sojourner Truth Mechthild of Hackeborn is underrated. "authenticity" as a category perhaps
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My former colleague @HawleyMO, whom I recruited to Mizzou Law and consider a friend, penned this @firstthingsmag piece. He argues that Robinhood’s restriction on GameStop trading was a Big Tech
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How to slide into a lady’s DM without getting curved. A Thread... Let me ask you:• What do you really want?• Are you just looking for someone to talk
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The House of Representatives will vote today on the revised "Delivering for America Act” https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/house-democrats-revised-postal-service-bill-usps/index.html-includes $25 billion in additional USPS fund
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Trauma gave us deeply sad, deeply fucked ideas about how to love: an essay by Jin Guangyao and Lan Xichen All! Afternoon! I’ve been thinking of the list of things
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Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined Newton, Leibniz, and her own original ideas in "Institutions
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If you’ve ever wondered how it is that Hong Kong managed to occupy the mindspace of so many people and governments around the world, including yours, then read our new
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In Humans, Sex is Binary and Immutableby Georgi K. Marinovhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12129-020-09877-8.pdf Dr Marinov is postodoctoral researcher (genetics) at Stanford.Second paragraph."A disclaimer: I am not a ten
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Trump's narrow loss marks the beginning of an internal struggle for the soul of conservatism.The GOP could revert back to its comfortable, elite-driven agenda, or it could embrace the working-class
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So I reviewed the Mary Trump book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/09/real-villain-mary-trumps-family-tell-all-isnt-donald-its-fred/But like with any review, there are things I didn't have space or time to discuss, stuff
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How should we create knowledge?We know "The Scientific Method" well: we ask questions then seek answers. But what about having many answers, and no questions?(Paper summary + more) "Here is
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