April in Exile

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In exile, because a short sojourn in New Jersey has turned into multiple decades, but Manhattan still feels like home.
Can anyone advise me re: home study of the human history of the African Continent. Do I segment my reading by area or epoch? Asking because I can't remember ever feeling so lost prior to starting a learning project.
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I’m sure you’ve already heard Hakeem Jeffries destroy Republicans from A to Z but now hear it with Nas’ Ether instrumental

H/t @[email protected]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1611901361322610688

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“I’m sure you’ve already heard Hakeem Jeffries destroy Republicans from A to Z but now hear it with Nas’ Ether instrumental H/t @Someone20241575”

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Why is lying on your resume a fireable offense everywhere except in Congress and Supreme Court confirmation hearings?

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

Isaac Asimov, born on this day in 1920

#IsaacAsimov #knowledge #democracy #education #PayingAttention

Actual conversation I had…

Me: Billionaire philanthropy is nothing more than PR. Tax billionaires.
Troll: Lol you trust the Govt to spend our money?
Me: Yes, the Govt is elected by We the People, and therefore is accountable to us and can be voted out.
Troll: Govt is bought.
Me: Bought by who?
Troll: By billionai—...😳
Me: ...🤔
Troll: Ok, Tax billionaires.

Hominins, including Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis, and Homo neanderthalensis, travelled the Aegean sea 450,000 years ago.

This was about 150,000 years before Homo sapiens (us) emerged in Africa.

#Science #Archaelogy #Geology

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618222002774

Growing up, Sesame Street taught me the importance of education, empathy, and kindness.

Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, taught me that revenge on my enemies should be quick, clever, and brutal.

My older daughter successfully defended her dissertation on particle physics yesterday and achieved her doctorate! I am incredibly proud of her! What makes me sad is that we do not have the same kind of financial support for those who do not go into STEM continuing ed. Her degree would never have been affordable outside of the hard sciences.
We’ve been sold the “great man” for well over a century. Alone. Resolute. One of those did not ignite fusion for the 1st time last week. Our western myths gloss over that the first transcontinental railroad was financed and subsidized by federal and state governments. We forget westward expansion was fueled by the Homestead Act (free land). Rural electrification, the Central Valley Project, etc. Sorry, Randians, sorry Republicans, that was public investment. https://digbysblog.net/2022/12/14/america-believes-in-investment/
America believes in investment - Digby's Hullabaloo

Just not in public investment Maybe it was all the cowboy movies. Or before that, Horatio Alger's sermonizing about a

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