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Whyvert

whyvert

New paper on national differences in time preference.Combines many different measures (e.g. survey questions and field studies), standardizes them and extracts a common factor. Blue: people on average wait for

Dr Bruce Masters

TheBruceMasters

The world needs to quarantine East Asia until this threat is contained. Cancel all flights to and from the affected regions while there's still time.When China sneezes, the world gets

#socialcarefuture

socfuture

IAN BIRRELL: The care home coronavirus scandal goes into the bedrock of our society - Allthis piece is grim - But look at the last few paras - as a

Nathan J Robinson

NathanJRobinson

Incredibly unprofessional statement from an organization no matter what one's position on the underlying question of whether the Biden article should have been published.https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1321896097099489283 I can

Michael Morrah

MichaelMorrah

1/2 A good summary of the ongoing border bungles, misinformation, and why it matters from @Bryce_edwards. @dchengnz who’s questions went unanswered, @JennaLynchNZ showed the Minister hadn’t read testing strategy, @thomasmanch

James Lindsay, man of internet swagger

ConceptualJames

Really weird essay, really weird authors, on the UPS website...https://www.ups.com/us/en/services/knowledge-center/article.page?kid=art173718ac052&articlesource=longitudes The Great Reset.https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/ The

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WorldofGoodBook

Starbucks Workers Want More Hours. Instead They Got a Meditation App.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bxn3/starbucks-workers-want-more-hours-instead-they-got-a-meditation-app The comments from a Starbucks employees on this thread show just how em

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea

jonathanstea

Bathing in resentment is not advisable for your mental health. 1/5 THREAD: Excellent article by @sbkaufmanThe victimhood mindset:- constantly seeking recognition of one’s victimhood- a sense of moral elitism- lack

Stefan Marciniak 💙

Prof_Marciniak

There has been debate as to whether the B.1.1.7 variant (first found in Kent) is ‘just’ more transmissible or if it also causes more severe illness This paper adresses this

Beto O'Rourke

BetoORourke

Under the cover of the chaos it has created, the Trump administration is rushing vulnerable kids back to the places where they were raped, beaten or saw their parents killed.

Anne Helen Petersen

annehelen

I spent the last three weeks trying to figure out what happened - and why - when hundreds of bikers showed up to a Black Lived Matter rally of a

Sam Penny

sgpenny

I would like to introduce you to the world's most newly described species of miniaturised frog, Stumpffia froschaueri, endemic to the Sahamalaza region of Northwest Madagascarhttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47619 This small an

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aveekiki

If smngg will not debut this year then f* it im not stanning (a thread); (rant)SM keeps changing the date, first it was last last yr, then last yr, then

Ali Trotta

alwayscoffee

Alright, this past week has just...I'm mad at about 800 things that I can't control. So, right now, I'm going to talk about something I'm proud of -- and that's

Elizabeth Warren

SenWarren

When Disney announced it was laying off 28,000 workers, it blamed CA for closing parks during a pandemic. But Disney didn't mention how it had deflated its financial cushion by

charlotte

tambourine

this article is important... my last full-time jobs were call-centre for minimum wage & "marketing" in a start-up environment that made me ill with stress for about £5k a less