#Measured

Trump to Biden:First Trump: In January 2017, Trump inherited a multi-year Obama-Biden recovery that was on track to become, by July 2019, the longest U.S. economic expansion in history. (1/x)
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The virus (and fights against masks and vaccines) are merely McGuffins, props in the crazy right's anti-intellectual effort to own the libs, the experts, institutions, authority: anger for its own
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GOATed, Part 2: Why MJ’s ring in ‘97 holds more weight than LeBron’s in ‘16 Another common misconception I always see on NBA twitter everyday, is that Lebron in 2016
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Ok, a thread that is not about electoral politics but real life. Because this piece is an absolutely necessary read if you’re a white person who aspires to anti-racism.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/noose-found-on-gunmans-locker-at-milwaukee
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sweden eschewed lockdownsome have claimed it is a disaster and the horror of scandanaviaothers that this was wise and that it's mostly the more aggressive swedish counting for COV that
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Universities should indeed offer "value for money" - but how do we measure the value of education? Every test that comes from government is crassly econometric. We need to recapture
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Arsenal have signed a new crop of Under 15 1/2s. Introducing those players, with some inside info and more.THREAD! Francis GrimesGoalkeeper, 6’7 and still growing, he’s considered a rare talent
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The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on
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the life expectancy of post op transgender people is measured not in decades but years. This is because while transition surgery is part of their paraphelia , nobody tells them
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More MPs have chimed in on this issue today. Melvin Yong, who's also assistant sec-gen of NTUC, said that "trucks and lorries should only be used to transport goods, not
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[Doklam]This looks more like over-head shelter covering a stretch of the road than a tunnel. So, why are we using the word 'tunnel'? It has a very different connotations and
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How do we form memories? That's a tough one. How do we study them? About equally as difficult.This 2014 letter in @nature takes an optogenetic approach to beginning to understand
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I’m celibate. I follow historic Christian teaching on sexual ethics by default. Straight people who practice contraceptive sex don’t. A lot of ppl get angry when I make this observation.
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Should guidelines be evidence-based?The PCR test works by duplicating the genetic material in a sample to a point where a specific genetic sequence is detected. Ct is the cycle threshold.
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I just love it when folk stalk your timeline and make a total arse of themselvesMy Stalker invested a whole day & night in me yesterday & got nothing in
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1. THE FROGBack in February, I said I expected we’d see reinfection and long term complications from #COVID19‘Mildly hysterical’ was a criticism of my remarks at the time. The UK
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