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"Illuminates the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule."
Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship by Alexander Lee & Jack Paine
#PoliSci 💙📚 cup.org/3RKFF1P
BJPolS abstract discussing the historical development of parliamentarism in Western European countries, focusing on empirical and methodological considerations.
NEW -
Informed or Overwhelmed? Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive Ability and Information on Public Opinion - cup.org/4hXrscz
- Adam R. Panish
#OpenAccess
graphic of branching lifelines, with the path taken traced through it. past paths no longer in play are greyed out, possible future paths spread out like a network of roots in front
The future is a web of branching paths, and each choice opens up new possibilities as it closes others. This is as true for a civilization as it is for an individual. The more our collective intelligence can inform each choice, the better our chances of finding paths through to a beautiful future.
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Telegram’s largely hands-off approach to moderation allowed Terrorgram Collective leaders to reach an international audience of disaffected young people and then encourage them to turn their violent thoughts into action.
Some of them did.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Do Not Comply With the Terms of Service by Paul Feigelfeld
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/do-...
ATROCITY-FREE* TECH:
A WHITELIST
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OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
10.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 8852 🔁 2806 💬 190 📌 154Transgenic means that genes from 1 organism have been put into another. We make transgenic mice to understand how genes influence biological processes. We make transgenic plants to make them more nutrient rich. We make transgenic bacteria so they make medicine for us. It's wide-ranging & v. useful.
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Book cover of Thinking Through Data: How Outliers, Aggregates, and Patterns Shape Perception by Maja Bak Herrie
Thinking Through Data by Maja Bak Herrie explores the historical context of the current data-driven paradigm and explains how elusive yet crucial statistical concepts such as outliers, aggregates, and patterns form how we sense and make sense of data. #ReadUP
www.sup.org/books/thinki...
Book cover of Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States by Alexander Stoffel
In Eros and Empire, Alexander Stoffel analyzes three prominent US-based social movements—gay liberationism, Black lesbian feminism, and AIDS activism—to argue that they were fundamentally shaped by their transnational entanglements. #ReadUP #ReadSUP
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Not so long ago, phones had black-and-white screens and were used for their most essential functions – calling and texting. ☎️
But there were visions and wild dreams of what a phone could do. Explore the Nokia Design Archive and the ideas that shaped our world: www.aalto.fi/en/nokia-des...
Incense Burner in Form of a Praying Mantis
Japan
18-19th century
Abbott Handerson Thayer
Stevenson Memorial
1903
