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Lovely essay on Shelley - eg on his Queen Mab: "the extensive notes are effectively a primer in progressive Enlightenment thought, while the poem they annotate is a swimming phantasmagoria of fairies and spirits and magic moving cars" https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/seamus-perry/wielded-by-a-wizard … via
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Science to the rescue yet again.https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1080733351189889025 …
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Happy birthday to an imaginative genius who brought delight and pleasure to millions. And what a gorgeous hobbity garden, even with hollyhocks! Could almost be Bag End.https://twitter.com/memento_melissa/status/1080973011409264640 …
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Cassin played an important role, but the author of the first draft of the UDHR was the Canadian lawyer John Humphrey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peters_Humphrey …https://twitter.com/rights_info/status/1080920499591540736 …
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This is truly astounding. All that dark blue is the basis for most of Australia's prosperity over the past 20 years.https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1080554322759421953 …
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The problem with meta-analyses and systematic reviews: "a meta-analysis is a mathematical method for combining data, which is weighted by the quantity but not the quality of the observations." https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.117.030209#.XCh9-CAgiBQ.twitter …
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Speaking of Saki, here is his unreconstructed view on the nature/nurture debate, and the inventiveness of boys http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ToysPeac.shtml#1 …
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Consider this superbly surreal non-sequitur: “On the shore, a bat, or possibly an umbrella, disengaged itself from the shrubbery, causing those nearby to recollect the miseries of childhood.”https://twitter.com/RobDarbyCanberr/status/1080578267059343360 …
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I had never heard of this chap, but the moment I read that he was a fan of Saki I understood why his strange literary & artistic works seemed so familiar.https://newrepublic.com/article/152302/strange-ambitions …
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In New Guinea Banbanam involves being secretly pleased that a rival village’s feast has been rained off because their Weather Magician’s spell failed.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/damage-joy-schadenfreude/ …
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Aust Rationalist Society "rejects all non-consensual, medically unnecessary genital cutting and calls upon the medical community and to educate the public of the harms of these procedures":https://www.rationalist.com.au/campaigns/genital-autonomy-white-paper/ …
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This is a phenomenal piece of research, showing how easy it is for a band of committed ideologues to distort the medical literature on a controversial topic such as
#circumcision.https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1079249942642798592 …Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo -
Some correct advice from doctor from a non-circumcising culture. Why are American medical practitioners so woefully ignorant - they seem to be living back in the Edwardian era. More detailed advice here: http://www.circinfo.org/Foreskin_care.html …https://twitter.com/agargmd/status/1079169700901412864 …
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Need to treat positive results from clinical trials with a degree of scepticism: if they look too good to be true they probably are.https://twitter.com/AlexJohnLondon/status/1078783947335761925 …
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This was never a passenger railway, but used to haul shale oil from an elaborate industrial site in the Wolgan Valley, near Newnes, NSW Now a popular camping spot..http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glow-worm-tunnel-helensburgh …
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Jan Heweliusz (aka Johannes Hevelius) lived in Gdansk (formerly Danzig) & produced first comprehensive atlas of the moon. Why do so many great astronomers come from that part of the world? http://po.st/sP3k9B via
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Thorough expose of the corruption of the medical literature on a controversial or polarised issue such as
#circumcision: essential readinghttps://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/1078529309478838272 …
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Germany's second shameful betrayal of the interests of children: first a law establishing the legality of circumcision; now it seems that child marriage will be permittedhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13444/germany-child-marriage-law#.XCWrObf3GDI.twitter …
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To be able to write forceful, elegant English is a way for everybody to become empowered https://quillette.com/2018/12/26/refighting-the-usage-wars/#comment-56752 … via
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