Nick Burns
@NickBurns
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Writer, editor at @AmerQuarterly, views mine. nburns 'at' as-coa 'dot' org
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Joined June 2016
For 50 years, soybean growing has drastically reshaped South America's economies, societies and landscapes. Now there's questions about whether the boom can continue. I visited the soy frontier in Brazil's Piauí state to find out for @AmerQuarterly:
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All the makings of a direct attack on the postwar university research machine, a central underpinning of the economy of the American university
Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.
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RT @AssLatam: Perú Libre, far-left peruvian party that elected Pedro Castillo, claims that all other leftist/progressives parties in Peru a…
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The Bukele myth - and the attendant repressive apparatus, which is admittedly impressive from a certain perspective - may in fact be El Salvador's greatest asset for the time being.
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Great so now it’s not just a problem with the egg supply in NYC supermarkets but rather a chicken and egg problem
New: Gov. Hochul orders all live bird markets in NYC shut down for a week after seven cases of bird flu found at markets in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens
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@NatPurser Whenever I see her byline I think for a second that it's Xóchitl Gálvez, defeated center-right Mexican presidential candidate
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There are restaurants in Lisbon named in honor of century old literary beefs in which Pessoa was involved
come for the pessoa heteronym debuts stay for the 100-year-old magazine scandals
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@melcacodez My hope for the supposed SF revival is that the tech people coming back from their sojourn in NYC will bring with them at least a tiny fraction of this city’s particular metropolitan indifference to maniacs with metal pipes
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Ok but on the other hand there’s this country called Argentina
Meat eaters are better hosts because they care about providing vegetarian options to their guests but the same hospitality is not extended by vegetarians (to serve meat options).
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Recording from a very fun conversation from December with @leonorgrave on @disquietradio on Fernando Pessoa's little magazines - and why he wasn't the lonely writer he's often made out to be
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@HunterCarterAFS - and as that apocryphal Zhou Enlai quote has it, it's too early to determine the results
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It's actually now I think that it's possible to appreciate more fully one of Bolaño's great genres - the right-wing nutcase as subject of (nonpolitical (?)) literature
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Thinking about the other act of valediction on ANOTHER SIDE - ungrateful mostly to himself - in "My Back Pages" where he bids farewell to Dylan the protest singer: "Ah, but I was so much older then / I'm younger than that now"
Here’s my somewhat lengthy but cameo-strewn @NewLeftReview SCar piece on Bob Dylan from 61-66—his aesthetic priorities + personal obsessions, plus why he’d have hated online dating, via the fun if limited A Complete Unknown (h/t @mrianleslie @lola_seaton)
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RT @leorobsonwriter: Here’s my somewhat lengthy but cameo-strewn @NewLeftReview SCar piece on Bob Dylan from 61-66—his aesthetic priorities…
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