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anthropocenester / tech + science writer at @TheAtlantic / rob@theatlantic.com
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I’m writing a weekly summary of the climate change story, for people who want to pay more attention to it: http://tinyletter.com/not-doomed-yet
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Your annual reminder that the problem with Columbus isn’t that he gets too much discovery credit, it’s that he was a bloodthirsty slaver.
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Even in his own time and culture, Columbus was considered monstrous: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/07/books.spain …
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For homework, my 8yo is faced with the unappealing choice between asking a Metaphysician or a Sociologist for the definition of “cause”.
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How Columbus Day outgrew its early egalitarian (and even anti-racist) roots, by
@YAppelbaum: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/how-columbus-day-fell-victim-to-its-own-success/261922/ … -
Robinson Meyer Retweeted Luke Bailey
What’s even more amazing is that I read this tweet and now I somehow have ‘Solsbury Hill’ stuck in my head https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/653275147898613760 …
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Luke Bailey @imbadatlifethis is the same species that split the atom and sent a probe to pluto pic.twitter.com/IgOQ3tvca91 retweet 4 favorites -
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@NorthwesternU@McGillU let’s get crackin -
Robinson Meyer Retweeted Luke Bailey
every major music cognition lab should drop 100% of their research load & write a 3000-page exegesis of this tweet https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/653275147898613760 …
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Luke Bailey @imbadatlifethis is the same species that split the atom and sent a probe to pluto pic.twitter.com/IgOQ3tvca94 retweets 15 favorites -
One day an enterprising historian is gonna use February 26, 2015, as their periodization date, and omg they are not going to be wrong.
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The last time I saw
@xor in person, net neutrality happened, AND those two llamas escaped, AND it was the Night of The Dress.2 retweets 11 favorites -
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Newly announced emoji: - Cascadia fault - blood moon - outdated cultural reference - self-referential joke - gazing into abyss - opinions
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Robinson Meyer Retweeted The Atlantic
‘DONER KEBAB’ IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE CANDIDATES FYI!!!! https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/652613003729367040 …
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The Atlantic @TheAtlanticThe 67 new emoji we'll see in 2016 http://theatln.tc/1LbF26q pic.twitter.com/EfwMxhHD8x1 retweet 9 favorites -
HERE ARE THE 67 NEW EMOJI WE MAY SEE NEXT YEAR http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/eagle-avocado-canoe-pregnant-woman-2016-new-emoji/410056/ … INCLUDING: –AVOCADO —CANOE —PREGNANT WOMAN pic.twitter.com/QkkbSJaZap
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“I may fondly recall this story in a couple weeks, and actually maybe I’ll link to it in December, so I better not close the tab.” —my brain
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As Eyvind Earle aged, he focused more on shadow in his own paintings. So haunting and quiet. pic.twitter.com/t65QXHwnWL
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When the
@USGS wants to detect whether an earthquake is real, it checks Twitter http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-the-usgs-detects-earthquakes-using-twitter/409909/ … pic.twitter.com/eD0WjhnphO9:17 AM - 9 Oct 2015 · Details2 retweets 3 favorites -
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Robinson Meyer Retweeted Logan Koepke
that was supposed to be our little secret, koepke https://twitter.com/jlkoepke/status/651827073212907520 …
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Logan Koepke @jlkoepkeCan confirm@yayitsrob has a TV in his bathroom where he not only watches The West Wing, but also monologues about how republics work in it.0 retweets 13 favorites -
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"Eat food, not too much, mostly planets." -Galactus
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#PatentsMatter, because how other than exploiting our IP regime would millionaires subsidize their $600-cookbook-writing habit?0 retweets 8 favorites -
waiting for the ludo bagman statement on this fifa news
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