I write about the death of my parents in @ObsMagazine today, and about returning to the wilds of northwest Queensland which is where I heard about my father. It’s been 35 years but recent events made me want to go back. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.
At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.
Let’s dig deeper:
@TheRestHistory@dcsandbrook Love the podcast. Easily my favourite. But having read the linked column, quite glad the woe is me, wounded victim of wokeness mentality does not seep in from @dcsandbrook columns to the podcast. Maybe @holland_tom keeps him in check.
Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels.
I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow.
Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’
Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path.
Strap in. It’s a 🧵
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Britons are divided on many matters, but one uniting force that cuts across regional, party and class lines is jealous pride for the NHS and fierce resistance to its privatisation and the importation of America's grisly omnishambolic health care "system." 1/
🧵Fields medalist June Huh shares an early math experience: a chess puzzle in the game "The 11th Hour." Story and figures from nytimes.com/live/2022/07/0….
Can you swap the positions of the black and white knights? Seems hard, right? A new perspective makes it almost trivial! 1/n
@aaolomi Complete novice question: where would Al-Tabari have found these additional details? Does he mention these other sources? Are these orally passed traditions that Al-Tabari is documenting and is he saying that these were also revealed to the prophet or was already extant knowledge
Al-Tabari relates a narration in which the two angels were sent down among humanity. There they met a beautiful woman who tempted them with idolatry.
They rejected.
Later she tempted them again this time with alcohol.
They gave in and while drunk they slept with her.
In Islamic belief, angels have no free will and are the perfect servants of the God. There is however a debated narrative of two angels who came to earth and taught humanity forbidden knowledge.
A thread on the angels Harut and Marut and the knowledge of astrology and magic-
@prize_novel@steamedhanns Hi Sara, sorry about all the IT issues. Hope they get sorted. You should delete the pinned tweet since it says that if you receive an email today, it is correct.
@rezamohsin@steamedhanns No the presentation is correct as is the blog post on the website. It seems the glitch continues - we are so desperately trying to fix it. It’s so unacceptable and all we can do is apologise