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Mat el Bandana

almightymat

NEVER FORGET:In Feb 2020 Boris Johnson gave a speech saying that he would DELIBERATELY not restrict the economy because of COVID.He said that Britain would save the world like 'Superman'

RDCEP

RDCEPorg

Two centuries of energy transitions in one animated graphic: see how U.S. energy use has changed from 1800 to today using our interactive Sankey animation at http://us.sankey.rdcep.org . 1/x#EnergyTransition #EnergyPolicy Our

el gato malo

boriquagato

the COV math from asia/pac rim remains interesting.if this is correct, then delhi, one of the world's densest cities, had about 23% COV antibody prevalence by late june.yet there have

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 Fickling

davidfickling

Ignore the diplomatic angst and wine embargoes. Australia's trade with China is booming, and exports will hit a record (again) next year:https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-03/aussie-is-soaring-despite-australia-china-tra

Omotoyosi Bibire Salihu

tysalihu

Copied from a WhatsApp group. "I' ve gotten plenty of inquiries today following news that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has prohibited banks from servicing cryptocurrency exchanges.CBN also ordered

Lumière

Lumiere_LLL

Defining Whiteness & The Southern Cone: A ThreadWhenever we think about people from Latin America we usually imagine brown people so mixed that it is impossible to racially classify them.

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

OK some thoughts on the fraught situation with schools and the pandemic. There’s been quite a few good opeds on this recently. I hope to add something useful below 1/goodnessknows

William Yang

WilliamYang120

Canada revealed that authorities in #HongKong forced a dual citizen to choose one nationality, enforcing what they said was a little-used regulation for the first time in decades. The news

Thomas Dvorak

thomdvorak

Covid-19 IFR is *NOT* 0.13% (THREAD)There's a lot of confusion and some downright appalling falsehoods in the heated debate about Covid-19. One particular point around which the "let the virus

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

I spoke with Law360 on the shortfalls of the new NAFTA/ USMCA. "This piecemeal 'tear-ISDS-down-for-some-but-reinforce-for-others' U.S. alternative is not a coherent alternative, so I doubt it can scale and diffuse

Chaim Hirsch

ChaimHirsch2

I have people asking me how I still believe that Biden has a zero chance to become president, so I’ll try to explain, I have seen enough proof that shows

Louise Perry

Louise_m_perry

Really good summary of how big social trends are driving problems in the dating market. Straight women are competing for "an ever-smaller pool of men who are single, educated, and

Ideas Untrapped

IUntrapped

#IdeasThatMatterINDUSTRIAL POLICY starts now Welcome to another edition of #ideasthatmatter. Today, we will be discussing Industrial Policy. The first question we should try and answer is; what makes Industrial Policy

David Wallace-Wells

dwallacewells

“We’ve known for months what it takes to bring Covid-19 under control. You need a period of severe lockdown to reduce the disease’s prevalence,” ⁦@paulkrugman⁩ writes. In fact, the solution

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