Public historian. Currently: Digital content @UPennLib & writing @savingplaces. Previously: @ladyxscience and @scihistoryorg. She/her. Cheerful but grumpy.
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ALT Screenshot of a tweet from me saying 'Check this out!' with a link to a BBC news article. The headline isn't displayed anywhere. We can just see the photo from the article (an Amazon building sign) with the BBC News logo on, and bbc.co.uk overlaid in the bottom left
ALT There is for everything a theory, which proclaims itself "good sense"; Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the surface, which dissects effects without going back to first causes, chides from its height of a demi-science, the agitation of the public square."
