#GLOBAL

Peter Cronau

PeterCronau

This narrative that nuclear bombs saved US lives is missing one important fact - the war could have ended in May 1945 thus saving many more. But the US rejected

Diana is ill but still wants you to pre-order TVD!

Pinguicha

completely random reminder, but apparently it's not common knowledge that Book Depository does, in fact, belong to Amazon.I'm not going to shame people for using it. I do, cause sometimes

Dan Crenshaw

DanCrenshawTX

THREAD - Let’s destroy this radical claim.There isn’t a single shred of evidence for this radical position, in fact the opposite is true. The costs of a Green New Deal

Michiel Tack

MTackCVS

1) Interesting review of neuroimaging studies on ME/CFS. The Australian authors looked at all papers from 1988 to 2018 and found 63 relevant studies.I’ll try to highlight their main findings

Nafez Zouk

nafezouk

Some questions/comments that sprang to mind while reading Lebanon’s leaked govt reform plan today. In no particular order, but points which I think we need more debate and clarity on:

kyle a.b.

kyalbr

Steven Soderbergh directed Contagion, a film about a global pandemic that collapses society. and High Flying Bird, a film about black NBA players understanding how to use their power to

Matt Thompson

LHCBMatt

I mean...This was in reference to his friendship with John Adams, which went south after Adams was elected president & VP Jefferson refused to work with him as they were

Holly Jolly Jasmine 🎄✨

astro_jaz

Should Humans Colonize Other Planets? (1) At any second, there could be a global catastrophe that wipes out a large amount of the human population. It’s dark to think about,

Tim Maughan

timmaughan

OK some tiny slither of good news: @BBC_Future found the supply chains articles I wrote for them that had ironically been wiped from the internet #infinite detail style. A thread

Matthew Cochrane

Matt_Cochrane7

1/ $DIS 2020 Q3 earnings are out:Revenue $11.8B, 42% YOYDiluted EPS $0.08, 94% YOYFCF $454M (actually up from -$3B YOY)CEO Bob Chapek: "Global reach of our full portfolio of

Ryan

YeezyTaughtMe72

The Ultimate Drake Birthday Thread An appreciation thread for one of the biggest Icons of this generation Awards & Accolades - 4 Grammy Awards - 5 American Music Awards -

Chris Tse

christse

There’s been chatter about when to start reopening things so people can go back to their “normal” lives. Sorry to say this: there is no snapping back to 2019 trends.

CodesUcq

CodesUcq

1.03/27/2020 Q confirmed Federal Reserve is (for the first time ever) under Patriot control!I added an article clip to explain the meaning functionally, but that doesn't do justice to how

Kevin Gosztola

kgosztola

It’s the final day of witness testimony in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's extradition trial. Court starts soon, and I'll have live updates on Day 18 in this thread. #AssangeTrial Yesterday,

The Passenger

gordonschuecker

Paper Notes | The Appallingly Bad Neoclassical Economics of Climate Changeby @ProfSteveKeen The subprime moment for Neoclassical economics and how citing/quoting Nordhaus became a liability.https://www.patreon.com/posts/appallingly-bad-3804

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Yep, this is well known amongst historians.The most favorable thing I've ever seen anyone say about him re: antisemitism was "Well, he wasn't *much* more antisemitic than the average WASP