#Understanding

Andy Maciver

akmaciver

Further to my interview with @BBCGaryR on #bbcgms earlier, here’s a little thread of my thoughts on the #SirJohnMajor intervention. Firstly, the things I think Sir John is correct about.

Project Ma'ruf

ProjectMaruf

An easy to follow thread on “madhabs” (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali) Big pictureThe madhab is a framework that governs how we implement Islamic teachings in our daily lives, each has

Zero HP Lovecraft

0x49fa98

In "The Feeling of Power" (Asimov, 1958), ubiquitous computation causes humanity to forget the fundamentals of math, including how to count. A technician rediscovers it by studying computer schematics, and

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

I've recently come across a disinformation around evidence relating to school closures and community transmission that's been platformed prominently. This arises from flawed understanding of the data that underlies this

Alex Young

Alex_T_Young

This will be a long thread so want to open with the most important part. If you study/care about US lit, go buy this book, or ask your library to

Lux 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

One of the weird quirks of language is that when we are first developing our understanding of this form of communication, we learn what words mean from context, associating a

Benjamin Skinner

btskinner

I have no quality memes to add, but I did read through this paper and want to talk about an aspect of the proposed metric that I find really compelling

Elsie Stecker

ElsieStecker

I just saw a video that has been circulating and it broke my heart. A foster mom recorded a deaf, language-deprived six-year-old girl struggling to communicate one thing. She wanted

Maryam S. Khan

MaryamShKhan

1.Friends.Comments to my last post triggered another thought. It's ok to be subjective/emotional in our study of politics.But we must be more aware of our biases, not feign their absence.The

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flvlft

this :/ theres a chance that this book is completely biased (which seems unlikely as this author is exceptionally good at striking a balance between the good and the bad,

Amy Orben

OrbenAmy

Reminder about the "social media is harming girls" headlines making the rounds today. Classic case of a study that would have merited academic peer review before a major press release

Only stan with Danny Devito

Meatbike344

Listen, dmcl is one of the best ships and its so fucking subtle, you have to really pay attention to notice. Sure, Dimitri and Claude cannot have a support—none of

Aimun

bluemagicboxes

I am a masochist so here is some ~discourse~.Keeping aside this issue of "tarot" and "astrology" for a bit, this whole "attack on science" pearl clenching is so funny to

🇮🇳Sonal 🇮🇳

ShreshthaDharma

India has been a pioneer in the field of science and philosophy since ancient times. In the Pauranik period, the sages of India had discovered about most everything which they

Alexis Easley

marieeasley

Scholars often assume that the publication of Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846) was a disappointing start for the Brontës. After all, the first edition sold just two

Techni-Calli

Iwillleavenow

Tonight, I will be live-tweeting CATS.I have never seen/heard the musical and my understanding is (i) it's loosely based on T.S. Elliot poems, (ii) a bunch of cats have to

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