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Welcome back to Week 19’s #CozySpaceFactofTheWeek and the final submission for the #GroyperSeason July Space Competition! Submission by @BearGroyperWhile light may take a certain amount of time to reach a
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When you consider what this season meant, the historic importance of it to everyone attached to Celtic, it's hard to comprehend just how much we messed up. Sentiment over logic
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Today I am releasing my final report as UN Special Rapporteur. I find that global poverty is rising, and that a decade of misplaced triumphalism has exacerbated the worst impacts
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Chaos theory outlines 'butterfly effect’ in which a tinychange in initial conditions creates vastly different outcome. Something similar, if a little less complex, is happening in urban design & highways
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Bonus report, for the 12th day of Christmas. Germany is Europe’s most important country. The level of understanding of it in the UK is disastrously poor. Perhaps German carmakers will
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The backstory about what ends up on the cover of @TheEconomist each week is fascinating (h/t @lmirani) Interesting detail about "Wichita Lineman", a song I never tire of Three (3)
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THREAD: Takeaway messages from our @IndependentSage weekly briefing today. (TLDR: cases going up but slowly, act now, ditch central test and trace system, go local and drive cases down for
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Quick thread on Autism and Cycling:As a teacher of nearly two decades and someone who has had a particular focus on the needs of children with ASD I’m appalled by
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Today is #WorldAIDSDay, when we remember the tens of thousands in Chicago & tens of millions around the world who are living w HIV or have died of AIDS. Here's
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So much comparing in discussing 'rescue therapy' for human challenge trials. You can find a fulminant syndrome in ID textbooks with no simple 'rescue therapy' for most challenge pathogens (approx
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Excellent Bloomberg investigation sheds light on cynical greenwashing by The Nature Conservancy, JP Morgan, Disney and BlackrockThis greenwashing has no place anywhere, if we are to have any chance to
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I've been teaching my students that you can never rule out statistical discrimination, so you cannot prove racism (taste-based discrimination). Now I think statistical discrimination is a cop out for
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Due to a pretty unique conicidence, today I have to announce two new papers published, where I am co-author. Both are sea-level related, and both acknowledge @PALSEAgroup (thread 1/n) The
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0/ At Doist, we have for 10+ years competed against Google, Microsoft, and Apple in the hyper-competitive market of todo apps. Some thoughts follow on how you can compete
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SolarWinds is a gift (to criminals) that will keep giving for months if not years to come. Some of this stuff won't make anyone happy..https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/nuclear-agency-hacked-officials-inform-congress-447855 Micro
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Tasmanian devil news! A new study by @AustinHPatton in @ScienceMagazine (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6522/eabb9772) investigates the genetic makeup of devil facial tumour disease through time, finding that it has shifted from
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