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[Rasha Al Aqeedi @RashaAlAqeedi]

The year is almost 2023 and we're still saying Eye-Raq and Eye-Ran. Stop. Please. Stop.

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@findingnimesh @obsdmd

[ScienceInsider @ScienceInsider]

BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.

[Michael Pollan @michaelpollan]

Smart take https://t.co/a6teb0zhNB https://t.co/DlBa8n92X7

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

#IdeaOfTheDay Art Above

- Dale Chihuly
- Emmanuelle Moureaux
- Rebecca Louise Law

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-William James in Principles of Psychology

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"All goods are disguised by the vulgarity of their concomitants, in this work-a-day world; but woe to him who can only recognize them when he thinks them in their pure and abstract form! The habit of excessive novel-reading and theatre-going will produce true monsters…”

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Why are critics so obsessed with ‘oeuvre’

[Daily Death Reminder @death_reminder]

You will die someday.

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How would you describe a headache?

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“The metropolis is characterized by its essential independence even of the most significant individual personalities; this is rather its antithesis and it is the price of independence which the individual living in it enjoys.” - from The Metropolis and Mental Life, Georg Simmel

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“The human gaze has the power of conferring on things value; but it makes them cost more too.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

More than 60% of Americans say they want a third party, the highest level ever recorded.

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I think a certain level of preoccupation with death is a sign of health.

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“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” -Socrates

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Fernando Pessoa

[Scientific American @sciam]

Survey finds that most people think poverty is why pollution disproportionately affects Black people, despite evidence that racism is the major cause https://t.co/KG0r0Gk5FA

[Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag]

#NewArtists @ondrejzunka has created a digital encyclopaedia – rendering plants which are uncannily lifelike, yet seemingly impossible in nature.

The otherworldly flowers inhabit an imaginary plane, where wonder and danger are balanced on a knife-edge: https://t.co/HCOEdtxnfS

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@Logo_Daedalus The Stanford Prison Experiment was a social psychological study, not a clinical study. Not a trivial difference, I’m afraid.