#Society

A thread on the value of kindness.A number of years ago, my ex-partner and I moved into a new home. Our neighbours were a lovely couple in their early-30s. We
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6 years of being a budo girl, you had no choice but to become an impenetrable wall of self esteem and confidence with the capacity to persevere all circumstances. So
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Quick note about how I think people might interpret long lists of potential exposure sites. In a nutshell, they hear COVID! COVID ERRYWHERE!I hear: 'we traced a lot of people
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I can’t even with this week’s #Meghan stuff. Is every royal story going to be spun to criticise her? So many comments about how Beatrice’s small wedding can ‘teach Meghan’
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Notes from @paraschopra and @kunalb11's podcast:1) Two kinds of startups: One that increases efficiency in existing behaviour, and the other that creates new behaviours. 2) In absence of future data,
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As part of my story on the proposed National Museum of the American Latino, I go through the receipts and have a look at the institutional track record on Latinos
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one of the most important lessons I’ve learned this year: to help the most people, spend a lot of time on a really strong resource you can repeatedly send out
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Pundits: The fact that Ossoff and Warnock are unlikely to both win their elections means Joe Biden needs to court Republican votes rather than push a much-needed progressive agenda*Ossoff and
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I am briefly suspending my self-imposed Twitter hiatus to comment on the PM's softened stance on NIDS. He talks about how he has "learned" from the initial proposal and the
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On Feb 1, Council will debate changing neighbourhood speed limits from 50km/h to 40km/h. A 40km/h neighbourhood speed limit will save lives and it will save money. If #yyccc delays
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Controlled focus and awareness can set you apart.
Andrew Carnegie, Founder of CMU, entrepreneur, and philanthropist revealed his secret of success as - “I can keep my mind focused on something
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Friends, if you have more than one child - even if they’re twins - you intimately understand concepts like fairness, equality, greed, revenge, theft, falsehood, sloth, merit, and many others.
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Beliefs are your thoughts about how life should be, or could be—codified into rules.Rules that filter and shape your thinking about what is possible.A thread on beliefs. 1/n The main
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Still On This Issue of LatenessI think we should pay a bit more attention to the conversation this issue is generating. While there will always be people who think the
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DURING THE PANDEMIC, we scientists made a lot of science communication mistakes. One big problem is there are at least four possible ways for a scientist to have a conversation
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1)With all of the horrible, sick creatures from Hollyweird and media etc. celebrating the passing of Rush Limbaugh, because they didn't like his politics; I'd like to post a geek
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