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[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

📣 New working paper on residential segregation in India. We’ve been working for 5 years on this.

8 facts about residential segregation in India, from new administrative data. The situation is not great 🧵 1/N

[Jon Yates @jonpayates]

🧵 A remarkable story from Glasgow: How the 'murder capital of Europe' cut crime by getting mothers talking to gang members and what we can learn. (1/15)

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Fantasy as we know it today was created by a self-taught French artist from the 19th century.

He has influenced everybody from HP Lovecraft to George Lucas and Tim Burton to Peter Jackson.

His name? Gustave Doré...

[Anmol Gulecha @anmol_gulecha]

Definitely going to cite @MenakaGuruswamy arguments on article 32 in my PhD thesis!!
Her arguments explain article 32 much better than the scholarly literature!!
@MenakaGuruswamy I wish I could talk to you about my PhD thesis!!

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

@vaiishlay maybe it’s the 478 vapes you have in your room 💀

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

A short history of the world in 13 maps & infographics:

1. Everybody alive today compared to everybody who has ever lived

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

There's a lot of writing advice online.

But here's some of the best you'll ever find, given by one of the greatest writers of all.

First published in 1946 and still razor sharp, these are George Orwell's Six Rules for Writing:

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Analysing one of the greatest speeches in history: Pericles' funeral oration in 430 BC.

The rhetorical devices he used to inspire and persuade are just as effective now as they were then.

Here are 17 of the best:

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

@culturaltutor I feel like the theme also unfortunately features certain aspects of “Oriental” Despotism. The lavish and exaggeratedly large/pompous palace contrasted with the unending haphazard yet uniform mix of poorer residences.

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

Excerpts taken from -

https://t.co/AzwwR57c68

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

In a letter to all State Medical Councils, the National Medical Commission which is the highest body of medical professionals in India has stated that any attempt at Conversion Therapy carried out by an MBBS Doctor will be treated as professional misconduct.

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

In compliance of order July 8, 2022, Ethics and Medical Registration Board, NMC has decided that conversion therapy will constitute professional misconduct under the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct Etiquettes and Ethics) Regulations, 2003,’’ said the communication.

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

Excerpts taken from -

https://t.co/AP5ZZM4CS0

https://t.co/ukKBi0Ho27

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

Announcing the decision on National TV, SG President, Lee Hsien Loong has indicated the SG Government will repeal Section 377A, a British era law that is seen effectively as a ban on homosexuality.

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

Following India, Taiwan, and Thailand, Singapore joins a growing number of Asian nations seeking to reform colonial and conservative laws that discriminate against the LGBTQIA+ community.

[Sidhanth Thomas 🌊 @Sidd_Mooon]

hello dear besties