@JonathanMetzl

Director, Medicine Health and Society @VanderbiltU; Author https://xitter.cf/t.co/j4Db72xTDj, @RFKHumanRights Award; #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton @Nytimes editors pick

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Joined December 2012
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Today is launch day for WHAT WE’VE BECOME: LIVING AND DYING IN A COUNTRY OF ARMS. The book begins in the early morning hours of April 22 2018, when a naked white man with an AR-15 burst into a Nashville Waffle House and shot and killed four young adults of color. I spent five years learning everything about the case – reading police reports, interviewing families, going to court hearings, studying how a man with a highly lethal gun ended up at a Waffle House, and what happened after he left. My research changed much of what I thought I knew about #gunviolence in #America and the best ways to prevent it. #WhatWeBecome started as a book about #guns – and evolved into a terrifying, infuriating, and exceedingly unexpected story about race, politics, and sanity in the US South. #tnpoli #gunsafety #WhatWeveBecome @wwnorton @McKinnonLit
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Dan Aykroyd's dancing is epic, insane and beyond amazing. 45+ years later it is still over the top enjoyable. And the sheer amount of talent on that small stage is staggering. The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) perform “Soul Man.” [Season 4, 1978]
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the poutine poirot@poutine_poirotOct 20
Replying to @BeingJWood
It's all laid out in the handy guide by @JonathanMetzl
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Dad pranks his daughter with fake interview.
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@Rainmaker1973Oct 9
This guy spent 14 hours waiting for a squirrel to set off this Rube Goldberg Machine. [📹 Creezy]
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After 28 years and more than 30,000 miles, British adventurer Karl Bushby has finally completed his incredible journey around the world. Today, he reached the finish line in Hull, England, after traveling across the globe without flying or using motorized transportation.
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Dan Reese
@DanReese21Oct 7
My daughter's middle school has the most direct fundraising strategy and I'm here for it. We can skip the whole charade.
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BaseballHistoryNut
@nut_historyOct 7
Tom DeLonge is used to going to Petco Park and hearing his Blink 182 jam “All the Small Things” sang by the whole stadium. But last night during a playoff game, he got a bit emotional about it with tears in his eyes. He even joined the crowd towards the end and sang in the camera. Cool stuff
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Pour moi, c la plus belle "séquence" de "musique sur scène" que l'on puisse produire... Tout est concentré dans 3Mn de "Technique", de "Sobriété" et d'harmonie...
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Electric Light Orchestra Livin' Thing - 1976 xitter.cf/musicasjc5/status/2105…
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Marshall Julius
@MarshallJuliusOct 1
Remembering iconic comic Groucho Marx, born today in 1890. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
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This is the instrumental version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, performed by Neil LeVang in 1961 on The Lawrence Welk Show.
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@Rainmaker1973Oct 1
A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure.
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Alex Fairfax
@Alex_Fairfax06Oct 1
Prince was asked to do a solo on a cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps and he showed up to the rehearsal and barely played anything. Didn’t have any solo ready at all and didn’t play one. They asked what he was going to play and he just said “Don’t worry about it.” Then, on the night of the performance he just looms out of the shadows and plays this. The way he pivots off that F# root note into Dorian mode is so good. Massively underrated guitarist.
Billy Jameson
@BillyJamesonOMOct 1
They've got a music one, and a movie one too. I might do the movie one tomorrow.
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John Roberts
@johnrobertsFoxSep 29
Ok...this is the best video ever....
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A bear family piled into a parked car in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, on Friday, after the adult bear skillfully opened one of the vehicle's doors. The bears snatched items from the car which they later discarded in the parking lot. abcnews.visitlink.me/vP3yYe
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This biopark has brought us some of the cutest “commuters” imaginable: guinea pigs. Zookeepers built a miniature bridge to make it easy for the guinea pigs to maneuver from one place to another.
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Salad Jazz@SaladJazz1Sep 27
Thelonious Monk - I Mean You (Live From Salle Pleyel, Paris, France/1969) #Jazz
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TaQuIn MaUvE@TaQuIn_MaUvESep 27
Comme vous le voyez sur ces images, à Naples, même un Pape ne peut résister à la pizza. Parce que là-bas, elle n’est pas seulement une spécialité… c’est presque une religion et je suis un de ses fidèles. 😂
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Al Green and Chicago performing “I’m So Tired of Being Alone”. Look at those happy faces!
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📚 Au Japon, des gens vont désormais en boîte de nuit… pour s’asseoir silencieusement et lire un livre pendant qu’un DJ joue de la musique d'ambience. Le concept s’appelle JUCY BOOK RAVE et se déroule notamment dans un club souterrain de Shimokitazawa, à Tokyo. Ici, pas besoin de danser ni de hurler pour parler à la personne située à 30 centimètres de vous. Les participants viennent avec un livre, s’installent dans la pénombre et lisent pendant que la musique accompagne leur soirée.
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