#Finally

My great-grandparents, Gladys & Harold Page, were living in Kuala Lumpur when WW2 started. Harold (right of photo) was a veteran of the First World War where he'd been seriously
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"The Plague Year" is so monumental that it has taken me weeks of scraps of time to read it carefully—I finally printed out all billion pages so I could focus.
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[THREAD]: How it all went wrong for Gareth Bale at Real Madrid and his relationship with the club collapsed. In his first season, 2013/14, Bale had injury problems, but was
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The first of a series of threads of single ship classes of the RN/RFASeabed Operations Vessel HMS Challenger (K07) Challenger, ordered in 1979, was a multi role vessel capable of
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[Boring Lib Dem internal chat]The reason the Layla Pamphlet is worthy of criticism isn’t that it ‘shifts the Lib Dems to the centre-left’. The potential target-vote-losing problems are instead about
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2020 was the year I explored International Macro (in a very broad sense) the most; and for someone trying to start a serious path on Macroeconomics I found it to
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Fscinating article and one I can absolutely agree with. God forbid the #middleclass should recognise their #privilege, they might have to acknowledge social injustices. Screw that, let's just keep blaming
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Any discussion of how "the business model of the legal profession" is changing, whether due to covid or otherwise, needs to start with a basic, but often ignored point. The
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My good pall @BobbyBlocker7 been telling me about @Telos_foundation $TLOS so I decided to do some digging last night. Telos is an enterprise grade blockchain ecosystem. It features high speed,
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When I was starting out as a grad student, I remember being frustrated with analysis problems where it didn't use DIRECTLY the things we spent so much time proving in
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Yesterday, @nytimes published an article titled "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare."I wish this statement were true. But it is not only inaccurate, it may lead to dangerous
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What has happened to businesses across the world, and in particular in developing countries during the past few months? How have businesses managed to deal with the crisis? I open
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(The following thread is inspired by two HBO series; “Westworld” and “Watchmen.” It is about life. And love. It is about anomalies. And ghosts. And control. And it is also
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.. HabbeningsGhislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and alleged lover of former president Bill Clinton, was arrested on charges related to the myriad sex crimes of Clinton associate Jeffrey Epstein.https://freebeacon.com/satire/ghislaine-
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1) Let's talk about Meituan and its founder Wang Xing. The poster child of the Copy-to-China model. They beat out 5000+ other companies to win the group buying wars and
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“There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.” ― Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning “I
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