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anthropocenester / tech + science writer at / rob@theatlantic.com

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    17 hours ago

    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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    17 hours ago

    Even in his own time and culture, Columbus was considered monstrous:

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    10 hours ago

    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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  5. 19 hours ago

    How Columbus Day outgrew its early egalitarian (and even anti-racist) roots, by :

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  6. Oct 11

    What’s even more amazing is that I read this tweet and now I somehow have ‘Solsbury Hill’ stuck in my head

    this is the same species that split the atom and sent a probe to pluto
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  7. Oct 11

    cc let’s get crackin

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  8. Oct 11

    every major music cognition lab should drop 100% of their research load & write a 3000-page exegesis of this tweet

    this is the same species that split the atom and sent a probe to pluto
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  9. Oct 10

    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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  10. Oct 10

    The last time I saw in person, net neutrality happened, AND those two llamas escaped, AND it was the Night of The Dress.

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  11. Retweeted
    Oct 9

    Newly announced emoji: - Cascadia fault - blood moon - outdated cultural reference - self-referential joke - gazing into abyss - opinions

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  12. Oct 9

    ‘DONER KEBAB’ IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE CANDIDATES FYI!!!!

    The 67 new emoji we'll see in 2016
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  13. Oct 9

    HERE ARE THE 67 NEW EMOJI WE MAY SEE NEXT YEAR INCLUDING: –AVOCADO —CANOE —PREGNANT WOMAN

    3:35 PM - 9 Oct 2015 · Details
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  14. Oct 9

    “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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    Oct 9

    As Eyvind Earle aged, he focused more on shadow in his own paintings. So haunting and quiet.

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  16. Oct 9

    When the wants to detect whether an earthquake is real, it checks Twitter

    9:17 AM - 9 Oct 2015 · Details
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  17. Retweeted
    Oct 7

    . to : “Larry, No.”

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  18. Oct 7

    that was supposed to be our little secret, koepke

    Can confirm has a TV in his bathroom where he not only watches The West Wing, but also monologues about how republics work in it.
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    Oct 7

    "Eat food, not too much, mostly planets." -Galactus

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  20. Oct 7

    , because how other than exploiting our IP regime would millionaires subsidize their $600-cookbook-writing habit?

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  21. Oct 7

    waiting for the ludo bagman statement on this fifa news

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