Nonso Obikili
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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🆕 Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world
When trade disruptions threaten access to food, importers face a hard choice between openness and insurance.
voxdev.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🆕 Rethinking food security in a risky globalised world
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos and Fernando Leibovici show that when trade becomes riskier, some of the traditional gains of globalisation disappear: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
theintercept.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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Saved you a click: You need a head to live.
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Saved you a click: You need a head to live.
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More details on the coup in Guinea-Bissau, mainly relying on the excellent reporting of AFP and Reuters reporters on the ground
Guinea-Bissau officers take ‘total control’ and close borders amid election chaos
Gunshots heard near state buildings as incumbent president and main rival claim victory in first round of elections
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
More details on the coup in Guinea-Bissau, mainly relying on the excellent reporting of AFP and Reuters reporters on the ground
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Another coup in Guinea-Bissau (I couldn't find a complete list, but there've been several). This time, it looks like it was successful.
AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections
AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Another coup in Guinea-Bissau (I couldn't find a complete list, but there've been several). This time, it looks like it was successful.
AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections
AFP reports soldiers said they were taking "total control" of the country, suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after elections
Nigeria’s problem is bigger than Trump thinks www.ft.com/content/e0f0... via @data.ft.com
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Its government is failing to protect everyone, not only Christians
www.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Nigeria’s problem is bigger than Trump thinks www.ft.com/content/e0f0... via @data.ft.com
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Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. n.pr/4pt2A0r
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S. n.pr/4pt2A0r
Article original: flipboard.com/@npr/morning...
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Article original: flipboard.com/@npr/morning...
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🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
The 1870 Education Act demonstrates how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children.
voxdev.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
🆕 How public education transforms opportunity: Evidence from the 1870 Education Act
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
Today on VoxDev, Ben Milner explores lessons from British history showing how targeted public investment in education can help narrow the gap in opportunity between rich and poor children: voxdev.org/topic/educat...
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Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality reut.rs/4iid1BT
Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality
Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night.
reut.rs
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Norway's wealth tax trades millionaires for equality reut.rs/4iid1BT
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There have been numerous reports about misinformation farms in many developing countries including Nigeria. Low labour costs plus cheap internet I guess.
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There have been numerous reports about misinformation farms in many developing countries including Nigeria. Low labour costs plus cheap internet I guess.
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The Twitter algorithms create these trolls. If Musk wanted to fight back on misinformation on Twitter he could do so in a moment. But he likes it.
This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way.
And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/
This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way.
And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Twitter algorithms create these trolls. If Musk wanted to fight back on misinformation on Twitter he could do so in a moment. But he likes it.
This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way.
And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/
This is why we should leave Twitter: it’s designed to influence us. In a bad way.
And in the future we need policy solutions— 1/
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All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent
Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown.
More inside: bit.ly/221_TC
Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent
Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown.
More inside: bit.ly/221_TC
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent
Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown.
More inside: bit.ly/221_TC
Welcome to Issue 221 of The Continent
Nigeria’s security crisis deepens: 26 girls abducted in Kebbi State, more kidnappings elsewhere, and a top general killed — symptoms of a long-running, underfunded, corruption-riddled breakdown.
More inside: bit.ly/221_TC
The Continent. Always on point. @thecontinent.org bit.ly/221_TC
November 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
The Continent. Always on point. @thecontinent.org bit.ly/221_TC
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
