#Archive

The Washington Post said "the disproportionate number of teachers appearing in covid-19 obituaries is striking."The author has not provided any evidence of disproportionate representation.This unsubstantiated statement should be c
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A nice attempt at vilification of a system that works, and fairly well... even in "current year."I got a cup of tea, a couple of aspirins, do you? Well, on
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2. "Here, the Court has little difficulty concluding that Hughes's dual goals in bringing her baseless suit were to inflict financial harm on Benjamin and to raise her own profile
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I have been continuing to piece together the timeline behind this 'Typhoon Investigations' Biden-China report.TLDR; a persona posing as a North Asia specialist which promoted the report before it was
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Common discussions about COVID-related issues in #highered/#academia which are not unrelated even as we are discussing them in silos currently: "An initial (non-scientific) scan of stories [re: students' stress/challenges/well-being] seems
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And now this one just got deleted, too.Former prime minister Helen Clark—head of the World Health Organization's coronavirus inquiry—is smashing to pieces and burning every single New Zealand news article
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"Here is my secret." The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry was first published in 1943.If you would like to read an online version, please see below. Are you
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Interesantísimo artículo sobre el COVID19 y su transmisión. Aconsejo lectura completa. Lo más impactante os lo resumo en este hilo.https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ 1. El c
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NEW: newly-published internal Cambridge Analytica documents from 2016 show how the data firm operated as a tool for a billionaire family to unlawfully influence U.S. politics and help elect Trump.
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Reading archive stories from St. Louis’ very violent 1993 (worse than current year) and the rhetoric is all the same. More cops. Bigger jails. Unprecedented federal cooperation. Help needed from
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On March 21, I ordered a STATEWIDE “social distancing” Order requiring social gatherings be no more than 10 people. This is exactly where Missouri needed to be at that time.
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Criticism of failures at the FDA and CDC re:ventilators and COVID screening (among others) and what they say about the state of big American domestic agencies. Examples here: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/coronavirus-showed-americ
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1/Here's a story from my college days about persuasion and majority rule that I think is instructive for the present moment.When I was a freshman, my dorm was debating whether
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Today would be Will Rogers' 140th birthday. I dug through my personal archive for some of my photos of the statue of him and Soapsuds from the past few years.Riding
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"12% of Californians tested positive for SARSCoV2.. that equates to 4.7 million cases. We've seen 1227 deaths...That means you have a 0.03 chance of dying from COVID."***0.03 chance***There is no
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40 years ago today, Terry Fox began his #MarathonOfHope. He would go on to run the equivalent of a marathon a day, for 143 days. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sunday-marks-40th-anniversary-of-terry-fox-s-marathon-of-hope-1.5530162 #
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