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Jason Crawford

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This image gets posted a lot lately, and not everyone knows what it means.It's a reference to “survivor bias”: a statistical problem in which a sample is non-representative because some

Thomas Christie Williams

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there has been recent media interest in Scotland in MIS-C, a rare but severe complication of coronavirus disease in childrenbut how common has COVID-19 been in this age group? a

Matthew Yglesias

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I thought this was going to be about something else entirely, but it’s extremely correcthttps://twitter.com/m_c_klein/status/1345495905152077824 The checks are imperfect in various ways but as @MattBruenig has been saying they compare

Pr. Logos

Pr_Logos

1/ Pour la mise en œuvre, désastreuse, de sa politique vaccinale, l'exécutif a fait appel à quatre cabinets de consultance: McKinsey, Accenture, Citwell et JLL; une pratique devenue commune par

NOlympics LA #LocksOnMyBlock

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The pandemic has made it abundantly clear the Tokyo 2020 Olympics should be canceled (NOT postponed).But we and our Japanese allies @hangorinnokai and @okotowa_link were calling for its cancellation long

Michael J Bustamante

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This article by @lcbattista provides wonderful fodder for debate. But fundamentally, I think the note of caution here is warranted.https://eltoque.com/victoria-de-biden-no-garantiza-una-nueva-normalizacion/?fbclid=IwAR0ycVGBc9F0xs4cp1QyEjpG

Alexandros Marinos

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Machines are making beautiful things without even trying to. We ask them to make something that optimizes for our requirements, they give us something back that looks surprisingly like nature.

James Wilsdon

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UK’s ‘R&D roadmap’ is published today by @beisgovuk. It reaffirms govt’s pledge to double public R&D investment to £22bn a year by 2025, and initiates a consultation on how this

Alex Hochuli

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A rolling #thread of useful articles and essays arguing, in various ways, that to call Trump a fascist is to miss what's really going Michael Lind on the American political

Not_that_PeterEvans

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The Enduring Power of the #InverseCareLawQ: Ever read a paper that resonates for days / months / years afterwards? Mine is from @TheLancet 1971. I would love it to become

Dr. Theresa Chapple

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4 #epidemiologists and a medical anthropologist, all moms, concerned about the health and safety of those forming #PandemicPods, got together to create a toolkit for families. A thread from our

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Network Effects 101The concept of network effects is a powerful mental model through which to evaluate businesses, startups, money, human societies, and nature.But what are “network effects” and how do

Philip Rhodri Taylor

PhilRhodTaylor

Given recent events, I thought you might be interested in some of the 'Sea of Opportunity' backstory and politicsScottish Parliament held a "sea of opportunity" debate in Jan 2017 -

morbrem

morbrem

You could tell Scott was caught off guard by the question of his association to O'Malley in the Washington Post article. I think at this point he should own that

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

A few thoughts about #competition.1. Competition could be seen as the defining value of our times. It is the touchstone of conservative/radical right politics. Even formerly left parties now treat

🌿🕊Carminda B🕊🌿

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THE TUNNEL SYSTEMS From a very long time ago they built networks of tunnels beneath the ground Especially mountainous regions https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exploring-the-secret-nazi-tunnels-under-a-german-vacation-town 10 Nazi bunke

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