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Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

More vaccine news, this time from phase 3 trial of Johnson&Johnson:According to the company, their vaccine based on an adenovirus was 66% effective at preventing moderate and severe #covid19, 28

Alice Evans

_alice_evans

Stronger protections for minorities depress support for democracy. Backlash across the world. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/in-the-mood-for-democracy-democratic-support-as-thermostatic-opi

David McAllister

Dr_D_McAllister

Weirdly, Boris Johnson twice alluded to A Tale of Two Cities during PMQs this week. Both fairly obscure references, neither of which made much sense if you know the novel,

S.J. Pearce 😷💜

homophonous

The other thing I did in Belgium after the colloquium was over was to visit the Royal Museum for Central Africa, built to showcase the spoils of Leopold II's exploits

nome

NomeDaBarbarian

Thinking about names, and RPGs. And how, just based on our experience of one species on one world:-Families may not have names (James O'Donnell starts as James son of Donnell)-Individuals

VKJudit

VKJudit

It's getting hard to keep up with all the vaccine-related news, so I tried summarizing key developments (with a focus on European supplies) from just the past week: 1, Very

Prof Susan Oosthuizen 💙

DrSueOosthuizen

Which British churchmen corresponded with/visited/were taught by whom across the 5th & 6th centuries before Augustine arrived in 595? Richard Morris’ figure of those personal connections suggests the possibility of

Patrick OShaughnessy

patrick_oshag

Starting to collect important questions for 2021 and beyond in this thread. Please send questions you are interested in too!1. Will demand for compute continue to double every few months?

Nancy Levine

nancylevine

@AmyKremer tweeted yesterday, twisting a quote from JFK into justification for "violent revolution." Amy Kremer is chair of Women for America First, whose D.C. rally led to the deadly assault

Malcolm Walsby

lankian

You may have seen the news of the recent discovery of a re-used parchment by students at Rochester - @RITtigers https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-students-discover-hidden-15th-century-text-medieval-manuscripts Here are some (speculative) thought

Hal Singer

HalSinger

The 60 Minutes story on Trump’s intimidation of Georgia's secretary of state and an election worker provides an alternative theory as to why the objecting GOP Senators gave credence to

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

1. One consistent theme in FL is the lagging for Biden American Latino voters. We're dealing w small samples so all we can do is lend theory to it. If

Rasool Berry

rasoolberry

The First African American AuthorOn July 11, 1761 a slave ship named The Phillis carrying hundreds of human cargo from present day Gambia including an 8 year old girl. The

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Decolonization and Growth: A brief thread.Let's see how some large post-colonial nations are doing economically, compared to their former colonizers, since the 1960s. 2/First, Indonesia vs. Netherlands.Indonesia is still at

Erik Wade

erik_kaars

Medievalist here. So GOP Senator Loeffler's new ads claim she's "more conservative than Attila the Hun" & joke about killing "liberal scribes." Obv from a historical viewpoint, this is just

Grilli Type Foundry

grillitype

Today’s lesson №14 continuing the GT Academy Sans Uppercase series We’re looking at the next character group: letters consisting of straight horizontal and vertical strokes. Let’s get started

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