#Innovations

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

I'm seeing more and more suggestions that contact tracing and/or physical distancing isn't needed and we could solve COVID-19 with widespread testing alone. E.g. just test everyone once a week/fortnight

mwihaki muraguri

mwihaki254

If we care to look there’s beauty & history in words & names. In my community each year (known by the passing of mbura ya njahi & mbura ya mwere)

Dr Bob Nicholson

DigiVictorian

Here's something that might surprise you: early issues of @voguemagazine often featured jokes on their front page! (1894) [Enlarged caption, in case you can't read the original small print] They

K. Alexander Adams

KAlexanderAdams

Really? *no* credible evidence? That’s strong wording - and it’s totally wrong. I’ll list a few papers showing that claim is false. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/maxboot/status/1252758166435057664 1/Jaeger et al. 2018: the immigration literature

UKEdChat.com

ukedchat

Cognitive Load Theory #UKEdChat this evening, with @Garnett_SA thread https://ukedchat.com/2020/10/22/cognitive-load-theory-2/ - #UKEdChat session 526- Teachers can maximise bandwidth while streamlining the signals to improve learning- Sign

Ụ́kpụ́rụ́

ukpuru

A thread for innovations from the Igbo area, focusing on indigenous social structure as it relates to technology, arts and architecture. If the iron slag at Leja actually dates to

Yele ‘夜雷’ Bademosi 💸

YeleBademosi

1/n I'm super excited to announce Bundle (@BundleAfrica), an Africa-focused social payments app for cash and crypto After working on this for the last couple of months, we are coming

Hila Cohen

Hila_Co

If you are interested in #innovation and #impact, the @WFPInnovation #Accelerator has a few #updates to #share!We are #recruiting an Innovation #Venture Consultant - https://lnkd.in/dg5-niE ...and..#disrupthunger #SDGs #ESG #job #jobo

David J. Hall

dvdjhnhll

Let's make the case for #NaturalInfrastructure - my tree-lobbyist hat firmly on. THREADRestoration work is labour intensive & low on consenting & qualifications requirements. Ideal for quick transitional employment, even

Benjamin Suchard

bnuyaminim

As my co-presenter Jorik Groen and I both sadly couldn't attend #NACAL47, @PhDniX just did us the great favour of presenting on our behalf. Here's a thread with our slides.

SpartanBlack

SpartanBlack_1

0/ I used to think that crypto people are crazily optimistic, but lately a sense of despondency seems to be spreading. Even some of the early crypto diehards are sounding

Kanra Khan

optic_chiasma

The interesting thing about house job so far is that I feel very useless (since we work at the whim of in service doctors) and yet simultaneously without the seemingly

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dfergusson

So Fully Automated Luxury Communism is written by Thomas Friedman under a pen name, right? Ok so I’m 20% through and this is like the worst book I’ve read in

Charlynn Schmiedt

ohtheprofanity

Whew! Finally caught up on all the @StarTrek news via #NYCC. Today is one of those days where we are spoiled with an embarrassment of riches as Star Trek fans.

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID Update September 16: If Trump wins re-election I don’t see a path towards ending the pandemic end here in the U.S. without continual ongoing damage. 1/ Let me take

Raphael van Lierop

RaphLife

Today I've been reflecting on what feels different between writing games and writing films. In writing a game, you go broad and focus on motivation. In writing a film, you