#POPULATION

Jeysundhar

jeysundhar_d

The tragedy of Hampi is matched by little else in history. The largest and richest city in India during its time wiped out of history in a flash. #ShortThread https://twitter.com/AhmasmiVayuh/status/1264424187503849472

Richard H. Ebright

R_H_Ebright

“we may have..vaccine ready for emergency use by September..for..special groups ..for example health care workers”“we may have a vaccine for..healthy population early next year”China could have Covid-19 vaccine for public

Joshua Niforatos, MD, MTS

reverendofdoubt

I gave @Surgisphere the benefit of the doubt. I believe this data is very possible to have. Other companies have similarly large EHR datasets, such SVS, Explorys, etc. I have

Nando

nandorvila

Sacha Baron-Cohen's point is well taken, but I think that we overrate the effect of Social Media and underrate the effect of boring ass cable news in driving people to

Sadie Farrell 🏴 ↙️↙️↙️

Marusya_1312

Orientalism is about subjective othering of what's colloquially called "the East." Both negative conceptions with authoritarianism, poverty & constant war as well as festishism with utopia, egalitarianism, paradise. The 2n

Ben Burgis

BenBurgis

Some points about Bolivia that should be obvious: 1. Anyone whose take includes the phrases "judges" or "term limits" is just changing the subject. The court decision striking down term

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

On the Electoral College vs. popular vote spread, consider Biden's current polling margin in these 4 states, with a comparison to Obama in 2008:California: +31.5 (+24.0)Massachusetts: +34.1 (+25.8)New York: +26.8

Tea Pain

TeaPainUSA

MINI-THREAD on votin'.1) When Tea Pain goes to vote, he leaves his 1984 Winnebago Brave and takes a 3 minute stroll to the Gizzard Ridge Baptist Church. Since Tea Pain

Galactic Algorithm

scifiagenda

I watched the new Westworld episode again and I've been thinking. We see perfect illusions (e.g. in the very first scene) apparently enabled by an ingested chip/wafer, seen again with

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

Q: Will you commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election?TRUMP: "We're gonna have to see what happens." Asked for his thoughts on the Breonna Taylor case, Trump

Amir Attaran

profamirattaran

What Convict (er, sorry, Conrad) Black wrote: “The world succumbed to a pandemic of hysteria, more than a virus.”Go tell it to the families of those poor seniors, @ConradMBlack. Nobody

Ryan Qasem

RyanQasem

An ex colleague of mine that works/worked under Unna in Israel just said that an Iranian virus tried to mix dangerous chlorine into the main water source for the entire

Dr Suresh Muthukumaraswamy

DrSureshMuthu

1.Why regulating cannabis is unlikely to increase psychosis cases – numerical evidence. A concern frequently raised in discussing the cannabis control bill is the issue of cannabis-use triggering psychosis. 2.Evidence

Zozan ✹

Gula_ciya_

My fellow Kurds demanded, and I shall deliver. A thread of Rojhelati music that you should definitely listen to: Laks are extremely underrepresented within the Kurdish population, and often many

Mikel Jollett

Mikel_Jollett

It's time to start thinking about what comes next and the very obvious solution is that we simply cannot reopen society in any meaningful way until we have a MASSIVE

Michael Clemens

m_clem

A technical question for the #DAG oracles of #EconTwitter, please.How do we describe the bias created by conditioning on a variable that is *nearly* a necessary and sufficient condition for