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🔗 The Soviet “Doctors' Plot”—50 years on

In early 1953 Stalin planned to stage a show trial of several doctors, most of whom were Jewish and who were falsely accused of acting against the state—a trial that underlined Stalin's anti-Semitism

Despite the state's exoneration of the doctors immediately after Stalin's death, persistent anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union contributed to the emigration of hundreds of thousands of Jews, including many doctors, in subsequent decades

🔗 Black Achilles

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<>So to ask whether Achilles and Odysseus are white or black is at one level to misread Homer. His colour terms aren’t designed to put people into racial categories, but to contribute to the characterisation of the individuals, using subtle poetic associations that evaporate if we just plump for ‘blond’ rather than ‘brown’, ‘tanned’ rather than ‘black’ (and vice versa). Greeks simply didn’t think of the world as starkly divided along racial lines into black and white: that’s a strange aberration of the modern, Western world, a product of many different historical forces, but in particular the transatlantic slave trade and the cruder aspects of 19th-century racial theory. <<<<

🔗 StreetComplete

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StreetComplete is an easy to use editor of OpenStreetMap data available for Android. It can be used without any OpenStreetMap-specific knowledge. It asks simple questions, with answers directly used to edit and improve OpenStreetMap data. The app is aimed at users who do not know anything about OSM tagging schemes but still want to contribute to OpenStreetMap.

StreetComplete automatically looks for nearby places where a survey is needed and shows them as quest markers on its map. Each of these quests can then be solved on site by answering a simple question. For example, tapping on a marker may show the question "What is the name of this road?", with a text field to answer it. More examples are shown in the screenshots below.

🔗 استدعاء حسام بهجت بسبب هذه التغريدة

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استدعاء حسام بهجت بسبب تغريدة

<>رئيس هيئة الانتخابات "المستشار" لاشين ابراهيم ادار وتولى مسؤولية أسوأ انتخابات تشريعية في مصر وأكثرها تزويرا وتلاعبا منذ ٢٠١٠ وربما منذ ١٩٩٥. اعلن النتائج النهائية في منتصف ديسمبر وقدم للنظام برلمانا حسب طلباته وبعد اقل من اسبوعين مرض ومات اليوم. العزاء لأسرته والعبرة للبقية. <<<<

🔗 براءة اختراع الكشري المجفف

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يتعلق الاختراع الحالى بأنتاج كشرى مجفف منزوع الماء سريع التحضير ذو فترة صلاحية طويلة حيث يتم إنتاجة من المكرونة بأنواعها والأرز والشعرية والعدس والحمص مع أضافات أخرى من صلصة الطماطم بصورها المختلفة والدقة والبصل المقلى والشطة .

🔗 Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

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<>The goal of this book is to the tell the story of statistics as it is used today by researchers around the world. It’s a different story than the one told in most introductory statistics books, which focus on teaching how to use a set of tools to achieve very specific goals. This book focuses on understanding the basic ideas of statistical thinking — a systematic way of thinking about how we describe the world and use data make decisions and predictions, all in the context of the inherent uncertainty that exists in the real world. It also brings to bear current methods that have only become feasible in light of the amazing increases in computational power that have happened in the last few decades. Analyses that would …

🔗 Grok TiddlyWiki

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Grok TiddlyWiki is a textbook that helps you build a deep, lasting understanding of and proficiency with TiddlyWiki through a combination of detailed explanations, practical exercises, and spaced-repetition reviews of prompts called takeaways.