Anne Nelson Mancl
@annemancl.bsky.social
Professionally curious university lecturer; loves adventure, history, interesting cars, reptiles & rocks; can be irreverent. Anti-fascist. Raised in Chicago area, now in Madison, WI
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#GenX
#tallpoppysyndrome #crossculturalcommunication #publicspeaking
#GenX
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BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.
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this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious
September 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious
Interesting research on free speech
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Higher cognitive ability and other psychological factors predict support for free speech
Freedom of speech is often treated as a legal or political issue, but researchers are increasingly studying it as a psychological one. A series of new studies explores how cognition, ideology, and soc...
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September 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Interesting research on free speech
www.psypost.org/higher-cogni...
www.psypost.org/higher-cogni...
Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks www.openculture.com/2025/09/expl...
Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks
“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of mon...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks www.openculture.com/2025/09/expl...
“Listening to the album is like getting a crash course in people’s history” #woodyguthrie
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New Music from Anti-Fascist Folk Singer Woody Guthrie Released
With this reveal of 22 previously unheard songs, the Guthrie family hopes the radical messages in “Woody At Home” will inspire the next generation of protest songwriters.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Listening to the album is like getting a crash course in people’s history” #woodyguthrie
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inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
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You could write a book about this photo. Everything about it is so fucking vulgar.
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
You could write a book about this photo. Everything about it is so fucking vulgar.
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The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.
Y'all, we need to talk about 'y'all'
The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.
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July 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The word fills an important gap in our language, but it was once stigmatized. The story of "y'all" also includes powerful cultural forces, from hip-hop to ideas of welcoming inclusivity.
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
UW–Madison researchers and their international colleagues have published the first high-quality genome of a sea spider species, providing a key reference point for the evolutionary traits of many rela
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July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Meet the ‘weird’ sea spider that’s mapping the evolution of eight-legged creatures
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures www.openculture.com/2025/06/a-fr...
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures
In 22 lectures, Yale historian Paul Freedman takes you on a 700-year tour of medieval history.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A Free Yale Course on Medieval History: 700 Years in 22 Lectures www.openculture.com/2025/06/a-fr...
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That’s not what the military is supposed to do. That’s called a military coup.
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That’s not what the military is supposed to do. That’s called a military coup.
While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/sTQjiSiG
Join me on June 14
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June 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/sTQjiSiG
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Here’s How Much Damage A Police ‘Hood Slide’ Really Does To A Car - with @JasonTorchinsky in action, TJ Hooker style 🚨 www.theautopian.com/heres-how-mu...
Here's How Much Damage A Police 'Hood Slide' Really Does To A Car - The Autopian
You’ve probably seen police “hood slides” on TV in The Dukes of Hazzard, Rush Hour, Starksy & Hutch, and who knows — if you lived in 1980s New York City, maybe even in real life. It is universally con...
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May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here’s How Much Damage A Police ‘Hood Slide’ Really Does To A Car - with @JasonTorchinsky in action, TJ Hooker style 🚨 www.theautopian.com/heres-how-mu...
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I'm trying something new. This is an AI assisted Explainer video where I just lean in all the way into the software to do the voice and drawings in the interest of time.
First one is on the legal reasoning behind the court's thinking in striking down Trump's tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/xamHY...
First one is on the legal reasoning behind the court's thinking in striking down Trump's tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/xamHY...
Why the court said NO to Trump's tariffs
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
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May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I'm trying something new. This is an AI assisted Explainer video where I just lean in all the way into the software to do the voice and drawings in the interest of time.
First one is on the legal reasoning behind the court's thinking in striking down Trump's tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/xamHY...
First one is on the legal reasoning behind the court's thinking in striking down Trump's tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/xamHY...
Chestnuts and the Roman Empire! Super interesting
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May 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Chestnuts and the Roman Empire! Super interesting
bbc.com/future/artic...
bbc.com/future/artic...
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativi... #CognitiveScience #Creativity #Psychology via @mitpress.bsky.social
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.
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May 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About: Read the Obits thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativi... #CognitiveScience #Creativity #Psychology via @mitpress.bsky.social
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Our investigation with @propublica.org found that Arizona’s response to a massive Medicaid fraud scheme left patients without access to the drug and alcohol treatment they needed. This week, the director of the state’s Medicaid agency resigned.
Director of Arizona Medicaid agency resigns following fraud scheme response
Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, the agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated fraud allegations. The state’s swift response left patients homeless, AZCIR and ProPublica...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Our investigation with @propublica.org found that Arizona’s response to a massive Medicaid fraud scheme left patients without access to the drug and alcohol treatment they needed. This week, the director of the state’s Medicaid agency resigned.
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature
Insects use “crazy turning” to dry off after a cooling dip in water
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May 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
‘Absolutely insane.’ Dragonfly’s extreme loop-the-loops are unparalleled in nature | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
The charging document in the case of Judge Dugan www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read the F.B.I.’s Charging Document (Gift Article)
The F.B.I. filed this document on Thursday in the case of Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested on Friday.
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April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The charging document in the case of Judge Dugan www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Happy one year anniversary to the Man Who Killed Google Search
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-...
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The Man Who Killed Google Search
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.
The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, ...
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April 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy one year anniversary to the Man Who Killed Google Search
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Pete Buttigieg calls out the GOP’s plan to slash Medicaid and gut the VA: “They don’t have an answer. Their answer is: burn it all down.”
Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure.
“We can do better than that.”
Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure.
“We can do better than that.”
April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pete Buttigieg calls out the GOP’s plan to slash Medicaid and gut the VA: “They don’t have an answer. Their answer is: burn it all down.”
Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure.
“We can do better than that.”
Yes, there are problems. But cutting care for poor people and Veterans isn’t a fix—it’s a failure.
“We can do better than that.”