#POPULATION

1. NEWS The Republic of Zimbabwe is going to sell 500 licenses to hunt elephants this year. A license to hunt one elephant will go for as much as $70kThe
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This, from @mendel_random and others. The authors show that correlations between genotype and phenotype (ie, heritability) can arise from at least 4 sources (there are more). Actual genetic causation is
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Prepping for Fascism:I’ve spent my whole life preparing for this crisis. I’m a Black, gay socialist, with a disabled, Jewish wife. Both of us live our lives knowing we’d be
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Since I'm not interested in the "white man debates race as an intellectual exercise without understanding the daily implications it has for people of color" genre, I want to talk
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1. Case Against Wholesale LockdownThere are honest differences of opinion between those advocating for a wholesale national lockdown, or alternatively broad-scale regional lockdowns, and those advocating for minimalist and/or no
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#CtValue is the metric that determines #COVID19 positivity status & relative viral load. We are working on CT values in association with demographic & clinical factors in Pakistani patients. This
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'80% of world's #nurses are serving half of world's population'- The State of the world's nursing report 2020 .https://www.who.int/publications-detail/nursing-report-2020#WorldHealthDay @IndiaWgh @CalineMattar @GlobalWater2020 @H_
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Before you read headlines along the lines of “the mRNA vaccines don’t work against variants in the real world OMG WE ARE DOOMED!” read this thoughtful thread by an author
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If you’re a Ugandan entity venturing into e-commerce, you’re in for a surprise if you try to implement online sales like in developed countries. Ugandans will come to your online
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The Santa Clara, CA, population study showed 50x-80x more penetration than the 1100 confirmed positive cases reported on Apr 4. A couple more studies are showing similar penetration. /1 /thread
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With all of the protests happening both on the streets and online and the BLM movement, I want to take a moment to address racism in other communities. Specifically the
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1990s were an altogether different time - of optimism, but also of "heightened awareness"Militia mvmts with yuge followings, millions of ppl listened to Bill Cooper on the radio, antiglobalist mvmts
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Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the
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I’ve been debating whether or not to do a thread on this, but that video of the little girl with CP using the stairs being treated as inspiration porn really
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Learning to code is the single most important hard skill one can learn for an asymmetrical advantage in the marketplace. Only 0.5% of the world population knows how to code,
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*READ FULL* This thread is about the ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Artsakh/Karabakh. If you don't know, I'm Armenian. 99.7% of Karabakh's population is Armenian, and they have
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