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#THREAD: Yesterday, we saw much attention on this #infographic on #Africa's #trade partnerships. But its oversimplistic. Here is some work we did in this area last year to help clarify
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Is there a role for vitamin D in preventing or treating #COVID19? Our team @PublicHealthON reviewed 54 studies on this topic. Here's the rapid review:https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/he/2021/02/covid-19-rapid-re
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India’s ancient education system for youth was one of the most advanced in the world. A system providing instruction in Vedas, philosophy, grammar & logic equipping it’s youth for a
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Proposal: to develop a generation of new men, we should build a monotheistic liturgical community. Here me out and give me your thoughts at the end of this thread (its
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I get a lot of questions about #Navalny. I am not the world's leading expert on the man, but I can answer most of them with enough veracity.Specifically:"Is it true
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Today, OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind is out. I thought I knew the basic story of Millennial life - that it's precarious, that we're broke,
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Today we open HEY up to the world. It’s @Basecamp’s take on email: https://hey.com/how-it-works  We started working on HEY in earnest in 2018, and I’m super proud of all the
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Just released: our (@REN21) new report with @IRENA and @IEA shows the urgency of decarbonising the heating and cooling sector with #renewables. Here’s a short summary thread. (1/12)Download the report
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The single most informative text one can read to understand how Joshua Hawley uses populism as a vehicle for white nationalism is his book on Theodore Roosevelt. I encourage you
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One form of pressure which works is all of us targeting government social media accounts with real science. They don't like it. Pressure on personal accounts works best. Just reply
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This story gives useful context to the NYT piece about the girl getting her college admission revoked for saying the n-word. If we're concerned about kids' lives being ruined for
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The ugly truths of getting big and strong. THREAD 1) There are no shortcuts.This is a long ass individual journey which will be full of adversity and life getting
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Persians call the robe many Muslim cultures wear an 'aba (عباء), which is an Arabic word, and Arabs call it a bisht (بشت) which is an Arabization of the Persian
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government planning even more asymptomatic testing (screening) of people with no symptoms using lateral flow testing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55604677 this may not be a good thing. may even be a bad policy....
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Something salient that is guiding how I’m thinking & talking about... everything in the mis/disinformation space: Radically different approaches for regular people/audiences/users than for elites/politicians/ platforms/pundits/execs 1
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To me, this comment & some that follow indicate that there are some misconceptions about how we got where we are now (& thus, I think, some mistaken ideas about
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