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Starting to see reports of Covid-19 "compacts" or "contracts" issued by institutions and purporting to bind students, faculty, players, employees. Via @hesterblum, here is PSU's.https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/sites/d
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“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion, and you follow traditional family structure.” Let’s
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THINKING OF SETTING A MAG? WRITERS - WANT TO KNOW WHO'S LEGIT?We're sure someone else has done this (& prob better) but we wanted to share some thoughts on setting
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Inaugurating the Phenomenal World twitter with a superthread of articles and interviews and papers we have published over the past twelve months or so—a New Years thread for the long
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THE LINDY PRINCIPLE, GENERALIZEDThe Lindy Principle, from Taleb's "Antifragile", uses age to infer information about life expectancy.Here, I propose an intuitive justification and I explore practical uses other than estimating
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Let's look at today's White House Advent Calendar reveal for Dec 17th and make note of the drop to which I believe it refers and is absolutely applicable to current
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THREAD: The 25th Standing Committee session of PRC's 13th National People's Congress passed the Coast Guard Law, which has been under deliberation and opened to "public consultation" for the past
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1/16 An 18 year old subaltern, 2/Lt Emmet Dalton, 9th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers, was awarded a Military Cross for actions at Battle of Ginchy, 9th September 1916. Emmet Dalton
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1. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2!2 papers:Human–viral molecular mimicryhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41420-020-00321-yMolecular Mimicryhttps://link.springer.com/articl
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What I've learnt on the Twitter this year:1. The State of Hawaii makes Jason Kenney honorary Premier.2. Rod Phillips and John Tory say Rod nodded off on a TTC streetcar
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Today is the 4 year anniversary of the airport protests against Trump's travel ban, one of the most inspiring moments of mass action I have ever seen. There are a
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40yrs ago today, FMLN launched it’s first large scale attack against the fascist government of El Salvador, called the “Final Offensive”. They believed people’s justice and democracy to be right
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I've a hard time talking to ppl who are against vaccinations, but I try to articulate it this way: 1) I say I don't understand. Not that I hate them,
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Why is there still almost no scholarship on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the German philosopher GWF Hegel? (1/10) #MLKDay @MLKDay @HegelianNews As the few discussions available have
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In April 2020, the Special Committee on the #COVID19 Pandemic, held it’s first meeting. Since then, they have met twenty five times to discuss our nations response the pandemic. My
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The more I read on Estonia, its tax system, its business & entrepreneurial culture, the transparency, etc.The more attractive it is becoming to me.Might fool around & move there. Two
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