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Sep 21, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
So among the books I've picked up recently is Richard Ovenden's Burning The Books, about book burnings throughout history. On the first page of actual text, we get a description of the night of 10/05/1933, when the texts of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft were burnt by Nazis
Looking in the index, this opening page is the only mention of the Institut in the book. It briefly mentions that among the books burnt, both in Berlin and in other locations, were from gay authors, but...it leaves me wondering.
Sep 20, 2019 • 91 tweets • 15 min read
I wasn't able to take part in the climate strike due to being ill, so instead I thought I'd make a big long series of posts here. Let's talk about one of the greatest global enviromental successes: the ozone layer hole and the Montreal and Vienna Protocols.
And just so you know, we are doing this properly, so let's start with a very simple question; what is the ozone layer? And to answer that, we need to start by looking at the structure of the atmosphere.