#Interesting

1/Following up on an interesting point raised by Jonathan AC Brown about Avicenna & wine-drinking, I'd like to offer a few cursory remarks. One: Avicenna drank wine. His penchant for
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Situation in Myanmar/Burma explainer: The military (Tatmadaw) has arrested Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders from her NLD party over claims of electoral fraud. ASSK's NLD received 83% of
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Really fantastic article on an uncomfortable topic within the publishing world of "prestige" journals authored by Bård Smedsrød & @LeifLongva #openaccess Thread highlighting what I think are the important parts.
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I present to you- the first edition of the Annual Palash's Terribly Written Terribly Tiny Reviews (TWTTR ), where I give barely a line of review for books i liked
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This is a great article. I love the way David walks us through the explanation here, particularly as I'm someone who didn't play previous editions.His conclusion at the end matches
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Independent Media - A THREAD.Watch it. Read it. Listen to it. Support it.Real Journalism, Zero Propaganda.Here is a clip from UK Column News, Wednesday 21st of October 2020. Based in
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Hello and welcome to my live tweet of @ThisAmerLife's episode "129 Cars"! This episode (aired 12/2013) follows a car dealership sales team as they try to hit their monthly sales
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Every so often I look at the numbers around the last election and it just blows my mind. There are 45 historically attainable seats for Labour where the Tories have
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how to go live with justin bieber: a thread 1. find something interesting to comment- comment as much as u can and try to think of something to get his
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Okay, I have just a fun, somewhat silly, somewhat serious thought that I would like to share with fans of @DCComics. The disclaimer is, I know this isn't very likely.
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Wednesday's here! Time for another thread of good shit from the past week in the FGC 1. Following the massively successful inaugural season of XO Academy, we're finally getting a
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The Economist, as always, willing to take a more balanced stance.https://twitter.com/jamesmastill/status/1354846514963771402 They understand that gender identity does not somehow mitigate male-pattern violence. They understand self-ID They
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We have been thinking a lot this year about how we use color to tell our scientific stories because we work with collaborators who have color blindness. As engineers, we
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#TheMandalorian finale spoilers ahead (Thread)So it's no secret to anyone that this season has me full of mixed feelings while also being one of the most personal shows to
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I find this thread interesting because it's one of the few times I've seen a public discussion of programming style drill down to differences in skills or aptitudes.When I've compared
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OK, I'm super late for this thread, but I promised — here are a few selected talks from this year's @PET_Symposium that I particularly liked Disclaimer: I only watched a
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