Dr Iona Italia
🇮🇳🇬🇧 Parsi. 🖖🏽 Subedits @areomagazine; hosts Two for Tea: soundcloud.com/user-761174326 Epistolatrix at letter.wiki. Latest book: see pinned tweet.
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Modi: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver talks about India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, why he’s popular, why he’s controversial, and where things are headed for the largest democrac...
Dr Iona Italia
@iamjohnoliver Listen to the Indians at the end, from 17:38, if you want to know what made me cry.
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Dr Iona Italia
This is the first time I've ever cried watching an @iamjohnoliver clip. You get a standing ovation for this. THIS is what is happening & the world needs to know about it.
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Recommended readings on evolutionary psychology
I’m still a bit under the weather with an incipient cold, but I’m taking zinc lozenges, which do have some science behind them supporting the claim that zinc shortens the duration and s…
Video shows teen assaulted by Atrium security, Lincoln Co. sheriff’s deputy outside ER
Jessica Long took her 16-year-old son to the emergency room at Atrium Health – Lincolnton because she was worried he was having a mental health emergency. Instead of getting treatment, he was violently assaulted by hospital security guards and a...
Dr Iona Italia
Everyone involved in this should be fired. I know from experience that some are going to argue that being a cop is a difficult job & therefore it should be OK to assault people because a cop's main responsibility is to keep himself safe. I disagree.
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Benjamin A Boyce
This channel is a mix of investigative journalism, cultural criticism, and interviews with interesting people. Best way to contact me is on twitter @Benjamin...
Dr Iona Italia
Anyone following the debates about trans identity happening around the place or interested in trans issues, trans people, etc. check out @BenjaminABoyce's YouTube channel
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The Fallacy Fork: Why It’s Time to Get Rid of Fallacy Theory
Summary: Fallacy theory is popular among skeptics, but it is in serious trouble. Every fallacy in the traditional taxonomy runs into a de...
Dr Iona Italia
Fantastic article by @mboudry debunking the whole psuedointellectual apparatus of Latin-named argumentative fallacies.
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48 - Colin Wright - No One is Born in the Wrong Body
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Dr Iona Italia
The eagerly awaited NEW episode of #TwoForTea ☕️☕️🎧 is here for your Sunday morning listening. I talked to evolutionary biologist & outspoken gender critic @SwipeWright about sex, gender, bodies & minds.
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Dr Iona Italia
Evolutionary biologist & gender sceptic @SwipeWright is being bombarded by smears & tendentious misrepresentations of his ideas & attempts to ruin his real life prospects. Not OK. I've got his back. Listen to what he actually thinks & share. ☕️☕️🎧
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Sandra Oh To Star In ‘The Chair’ Dramedy Series From Amanda Peet & ‘Game Of Thrones’ Creators At Netflix
Netflix has ordered The Chair, a new six-episode half-hour dramedy starring and executive produced by Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh and co-starring Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In). It hails f…
How Universities Cover Up Scientific Fraud
I learned a hard lesson last year, after blowing the whistle on my coauthor, mentor and friend: not all universities can be trusted to investigate accusations of fraud, or even to follow their own …
Forget Welfare: Give People Cash
Most students who fail my classes are too busy roaming the halls or watching soccer videos to finish their work. But some fail because they are working full time, to help their families meet rent a…
Does Secularism Lead to Racism? A Review of “Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race and Civilization, 1850–1914” by Nathan G. Alexander
Towards the end of his recent book on atheism and racism, Nathan G. Alexander argues that our understanding of the American black civil rights movement is obscured by the towering figure of Martin …
Boundary-breaking Bollywood rom-com hopes to convince India’s boomers to embrace gay people
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A new Bollywood rom-com featuring a gay romance is hoping to win over older people, following the decriminalisation of homosexuality.
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes in an Indian Election Campaign
AI-generated fake videos that are notoriously rampant in porn are now infiltrating politics.
The Importance of Taking Personal Responsibility for One’s Mental Health
Following the recent death of a popular British personality by suicide, there has been an outpouring of emotion on social media. Alongside tributes from the public and celebrities—often captioned w…
Man charged with kidnapping woman, forcing her to watch ‘Roots’ to ‘understand her racism’
Robert Lee Noye allegedly told the woman she had to watch the iconic miniseries “or he would kill her and spread her body parts across Interstate 380.”
Otto the octopus wreaks havoc
An octopus has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp.
Amazon.com: The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature) eBook: Iona Italia: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: The Rise of Literary Journalism in the Eighteenth Century: Anxious Employment (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature) eBook: Iona Italia: Kindle Store
Dr Iona Italia
It's gratifying to know that SOMEONE has read my ancient academic tome on the essayists of the Enlightenment. (amazon.com/Literary-Journ…) pic.twitter.com/NgbGMUL7FJ
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MSNBC Poll Finds Support For Bernie Sanders Has Plummeted 2 Points Up
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Breaking taboos in Bollywood
As a major same-sex rom-com is released – starring Ayushmann Khurrana – it seems that progress is being made. So how is the industry changing, and is it enough, asks Meher Mirza.