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It’s a popular meme in Indonesia to point to neighbors like Malaysia and Singapore and say that things might have been better had it been the British who colonized the country because the Dutch were in c/[email protected]
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@[email protected] Might be interesting to contrast the colonial history of both Malaysia and Indonesia with that of Thailand, which was never colonised.

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Permutation City (1994) - Greg Egan in c/[email protected]
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Greg Egan @gregeganSF has written new books, like "Scale" and "The Book of All Skies" and collections of his latest stories like "Sleep and the Soul" and "Instantiation".

Check out his website for more info [ https://gregegan.net/ ].

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‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists in c/[email protected]
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@weecious @cendawanita Agree about iNaturalist. Personal experience: I recently took shots of an unidentified bee in Singapore. After uploading on iNat, it was identified as a seldom seen bee.

A local bee researcher then used my observation to locate more of the bees and he is now preparing a short paper describing them and their behaviour.

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@KelsonV I saw the @markwitton blog post about this. Will be reading it. 🙂 (mstdn.io)
 

@KelsonV I saw the @markwitton blog post about this. Will be reading it. 🙂

https://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2023/03/new-paper-fresh-evidence-and-novel.html

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