#Population

The narrative on herd immunity is clearly changing. On May 1, it was: "Try to reach it without a vaccine and millions will die" /1https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-herd-immunity.html Today, it's a d
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Gig economy weighted against 'employee' relationship https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/gig-economy-weighted-against-employee-relationship-20200810-p55kex.html Australian inquiry (in Victoria) on the gig economy finds "P
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Positive signs are emerging: life has largely returned to normal for the 18% of humanity that live in India:https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/life-back-to-normal-covid-s-decline-in-india-sparks-a-shopping-spree-12102
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On charter schools (thanks @piper4missouri for elevating this conversation in #moleg): I've worked with St. Louis kids for over 13 years now, and I've worked with rural communities for over
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Reasons Why Puntland is the great State in Somalia Threadhttps://twitter.com/Abfaa634/status/1251291413540671489 Source The World bank http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/464241565765065128/pdf/Findings-from-Wave-2-of-the-Somali-High-
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WRT: the Bali storyNo matter what your position may be, you need to be clear on the stakes and the circumstances here. It's really easy to minimize the scope when
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One thing that is striking is that hotspots crater after only a small % of the total population has symptomatic COVID, and only a small % have even evidence of
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Something about the U.S. response to COVID has been bothering me, and it goes well beyond the president's own failures. In this new essay, I explore how anti-Trump narratives misled
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12th January 2021: A total of 2,431,648 people in the UK have been vaccinated, an increase of 145,076 since yesterday.This is 3.6% of the UK’s total population. Breakdown:•England: 2,080,280 (3.7%)•Scotland:
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I think we, as teachers, need to be on the lookout for how our own judgment about the right way to teach might be effected by common cognitive and inductive
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1/ #Armenia President Armen Sarkissian calls on government to prepare for snap elections. He is not the only one in this country, who believes this could be a way out
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Upon realizing a state of unconventional war currently exists worldwide, each nation wishing to contribute toward victory for freedom, democracy, and peaceful coexistence must immediately begin taking action to break
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1/ A sense of why, even if cases aren't rising, more restrictions may be needed outside tier 4. Here is a simple model of a region that starts off in
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Elderly care needs attention.In our increasingly busy world, caring for our elderly has become trickier than ever. The number of older people with unmet care and support needs is increasing
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Families of some 20M girls are expected not to send their girls back to school after the Covid-19 pandemic, leaving them more vulnerable to child marriage.A thread on 2020's impact
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1/ By adopting Surkov's ideas of non-linear war: government lies producing cynicism and distrust (undermining or scapegoating of experts for political gain), the government risks structural damage to the fabric
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