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PanData19

Out damn spot! 1/12 The President of South Africa appeared on national TV to tell some lies in support of perpetuating destructive Covid malarkey. Out came the old chestnut that

JessMet

CJEMetcalf

The brilliant @rebaker64 from @PrincetonEnviro works at the nexus of two challenges: climate change and infectious disease. We chatted (audio here):https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/t/1_vo4oz5jp Unpicking how climate variation (tempe

Erin Kissane

kissane

"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.

Lucy van Dorp

LucyvanDorp

Piecing together what we know of the ‘new #variant’. This has been confirmed by COG-UK (https://tinyurl.com/ybfsqurf ) and PHE (https://tinyurl.com/yacjerx6 ) as a lineage of #SARSCoV2 carrying a set of mutations including

Kevin Gannon misses Grogu

TheTattooedProf

Hi there-Civil War historian here. So, uh...this is really, really far from "The Truth." Got a minute? /1https://twitter.com/senatormcdaniel/status/1029916257490018304 2/ Lee certainly did not believe slavery was wrong. In an 1856

Asia Chloe Brown

AsiaChloeBrown

Happy Thursday, friends. Today we get 21 more minutes of daylight. Two more minutes than yesterday, and 21 more minutes than December 21. Tomorrow marks the beginning of a "new

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update July 17: There’s a question as to how long Trump can suspend his departure from the facts & reality.I don’t know the answer but, like it or not,

Boukman Academy

BoukmanAcademy

On this day in 1961, Patrice Lumumba was assassinated by colluding US, UN, British and Belgian forces just 201 days after becoming Prime Minister. Coming to power during Congolese Independence

Ediale

EdialeWrites

Dear You,Did you hear that the brain behind the sex-for-grades BBC story (no, not Kiki Mordi, but Ogechi Obidiebube) attempted suicide?She is said to have survived self poisoning. Well.It

Candela ✟☀️✟

gjrt888

A simplified map of the creation of the music genre known as "Salsa" Salsa music is a popular dance music genre that initially arose in New York City during

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

It's important to remember that any time you consume dumplings, you are consuming "how local cooks attempted to prepare the foreign food called 'dumplings' for their terrifying Mongolian overlords, who

Stephanie Evergreen

evergreendata

Since I published Decolonizing Data Viz a month ago, I've seen many people point out historical viz that has not been included in the traditional white male canon. Here's a

Robert Young Pelton

RYP__

On the surface this seems obscure...until you do your homework and see what USAID has become. They are a secret funding weapon. " OPIC, USAID, and Proposed Development Finance "

Ridhwaan Suliman

rid1tweets

Here are my latest graphs showing the weekly #COVID19 data and trends in South Africa I've received a number of queries since I last posted, so I'll attempt to share

Heidi Chow

hidschow

This is great news. I only wish other countries could also have this headline but they don't becausehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696 Pfizer has sold most of its vaccine stocks to rich countries, leaving

Pen Pencil

penpencildraw

The bizarre history of cannabis in India: a cartoon history thread. (1/n) The story of cannabis in India is long and convoluted. Ancient Indians knew of cannabis very well. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0253717620957501

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