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May 9, 2023
Fascinating new preprint on bioRxiv tackles a whale of a question: Whales are huge. So why don’t they get a ton of cancers? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.07.539748v1 twitter.com/JSheltzer/status/1656014350006599681/photo/1
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Feb 15, 2021
The greatest treasure looted from the Ethiopian people at Maqdala in 1868 isn't in the BL or V&A. The Kwer'ata Re'esu, the most sacred icon of the Ethiopian people, was stolen by a representative of the Queen, later sold by his heirs & remains hidden
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Apr 29, 2023
“Women and men are just as likely to be promoted, controlling for publications” But listen, a survey of 50,000 US scientists finds that motherhood inhibits output. So controlling for publications omits a major gendered obstacle to career progressio
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Apr 18, 2023
As someone who reported extensively on Fox News's high-profile settlement with Seth Rich's parents, I wanted to share a few observations about today's news. The $787 million sum is massive. This is a huge win for Dominion Voting Systems. A win for
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Apr 12, 2023
What did the first farmers actually farm? Eight 'founder crops'—emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, barley, lentil, pea, chickpea, bitter vetch, and flax—have long been thought to have been the bedrock of Neolithic economies. But... 🧵 twitter.com/joeroe90/s
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Jan 11, 2023
We are now in a position to evaluate the impact of Covid vaccines. Overall, I believe they were a success, actually well beyond what most informed people probably anticipated in 2020. 1/ twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1337851396427829251
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Dec 22, 2022
This small church in Poland might look ordinary, but inside is a chapel made of human skeletons. It took one man eighteen years to build. Why did he do it? twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1606031570531684352/photo/1
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The Cultural Tutor
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Dec 5, 2022
📢Read our new paper: Analysis suggests Covid-19 boosters likely to cause a net clinical harm to young adults(18-29 yr), where total severe adverse events (SAEs) will outweigh Covid hospitalizations averted Booster mandates are unethical because:1/1
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Nov 24, 2022
Italian Hill Towns are some of the most magical places on Earth twitter.com/Cobylefko/status/1595804398378442754/photo/1
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Nov 20, 2022
The telephone, the internet, and crypto share one thing in common. Each technology improves on the next in terms of its ability to facilitate fraud. As such, I was initially a crypto skeptic, but after studying some of the more interesting crypto pro
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Nov 15, 2022
There have been calls by 227 Iranian MPs and some hardline groups inside Iran for tough sentences for protesters, including the potential use of the death penalty. The first death sentence for a protester was handed out two days ago. twitter.com/Ki
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
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Nov 1, 2022
Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions. twitter.com/jana_pruden/status/1587236612303642625/photo/1
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Jana G. Pruden
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