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According to The Polity Project, the US is no longer a democracy.Why does that matter? Why is the Polity Project wrong?[THREAD] Why does the Polity score matter? There are a
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North Dakota now has the highest reported number of Covid cases per capita and the 9th highest number of reported Covid deaths per capita; the first article that appears in
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This piece harshes on target-date funds, which is kind of unfortunate. TDFs aren't *perfect* products, but why should perfect be the enemy of good when good is an excellent outcome
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It's a year since I first tweeted about an unusual pneumonia spreading in Wuhan, China. I lost my mother to Covid-19 on 27th December. My research on the disease, summarised
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Is re-instituting lockdowns necessary to stop rapidly rising #COVID19 cases globally?Answer: No. But we're failing at 2 other approaches, due to poor messaging, human behavior & limited public health capacity.Deaths
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For the past week I’ve been using the Xiaomi Redmi 8 as my main phone. It’s the most common “budget” smartphone in India.In some ways, this thing is shockingly good.
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In this article (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/case-criminally-investigating-ex-president/616804/) I made the case for conducting a criminal investigation of Trump after he leaves office. In doing so, I acknowledged the
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Back in May, the NY Times did a piece on anti-maskers that started with a scene of a seemingly normal person, Genevieve Peters (originally with a fake name), refusing to
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Today we are launching our third crowdfunder to enable us to continue to research the weakened recognition in UK law and policy of sex as the basis for women's experiences
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Thread on eminent people supporting farm laws:Dr. Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at IMF says "Farm bills are in right direction"https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/farm-labour-bills-are-steps-in-right-directio
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Interesting interview for those curious about what happens behind closed doors at the OECD Inclusive Framework.https://twitter.com/TaxNotes/status/1347970172888477696 @martinhearson & @phdskat have a paperhttps://www.ictd.ac/publication
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As a product guy, I’ve always admired Steve Jobs. But I struggled to understand why didn't he use customer research.In this thread I share why a customer-centric product legend skipped
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#Thread Alain Fischer est un pionnier de la thĂ©rapie gĂ©nique. De quoi faire regretter Viossat, l’ancien Mr vaccin.Sa nomination est cohĂ©rente avec la volontĂ© de l’industrie pharmaceutique d’inonder le marchĂ©
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It is absurd to see parents telling autistic people here that “your autism is not like MY kid’s autism.” Sure, and your experience as a parent is not like all
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(1/5) @FT's second attempt to push a much too simplified narrative that Chinese policy banks are now lending less overseas, based on @BU_Tweets's porous dataset.https://www.ft.com/content/d9bd8059-d05c-4e6f-968b-1672241ec1f6 (2/5) B
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Since the Art Bulletin had never published anything on the Christian #arts of “#Medieval” #Ethiopia, I'm extremely grateful that the co-editors decided to accept this study of representations of David
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