#Contrast

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

The number of deaths from all causes in 2019 vs. number of deaths from or with Covid-19 in 2020-21. The average age of a death by or with covid-19 is

Melissa Chen

MsMelChen

Fascinating look into how HK beat covid19 by @zeynep. Remarkable how the HK people helped themselves where the government failed.Sets up interesting contrast between strong civil society (HK) vs. strong

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Writing in @techreview, @samuelwoolley and Jacob Gursky take a deep dive into the data-gathering in the apps from the Trump and Biden campaigns. It's quite a study in contrasts!https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-

Dan Hind

danhind

The trade unions' decision not to invest significantly in media production (in contrast to the 30s-40s, when it owned 49% of the UK's biggest newspaper) is a disastrous strategic miscalculation.

Josh Jordan

NumbersMuncher

CNN Poll: 50% of Americans believe that Trump should be impeached *and* removed from office while 43% do not.This matches their October poll and is the highest level of support

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. Thinking more on last night's debate, one big problem Trump has is that he's never clearly defined Joe Biden. Is Biden the career politician who hasn't done anything to

Chxta

Chxta

I was in #America for almost the whole of last month, and one of the places I visited was El Paso in Texas. El Paso is just a wall away

Milhouse Van Houten 😀

Milhouse_Van_Ho

Mortality in Canada (thread):Here we have the total number of deaths in Canada over the past ten years. Looking at the past decade, we see that it's natural for deaths

dante 🌹

videodante

Also hey, this is importanthttps://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1247918834700304384 As a clarification of a probably unclear situation here: the Sanders campaign has been suspended. This does not mean that Sanders isn't capable of gaining

Joseph Britt

Zathras3

Just a few notes, for my own benefit really, about this evenings debate-like event. A thread. Biden: he struggled at times to stay on task. "200,000 dead" is a powerful

Claire Lehmann 🚀

clairlemon

Yes. And the Empathising-Systematising theory of psychological sex differences is very useful for understanding current fault-lines in culture wars & how these manifest in industries which sort people according to

another autistic psychologist

aut_psych

The other day I had a big rant about the show #LoveOnTheSpectrum and how it doesn’t represent my experience of dating & relationships as an #ActuallyAutistic person. So I’ve written

Simon Rosenberg

SimonWDC

1/Let's spend a few moments reflecting on all the things the our POTUS could be doing now, but isn't. Let's go global first: Convening G7/G20/NATO to lead coordinated global effort

Matthew Lasky

MattLasky

Was actually thinking of doing a thread on this but I think it conflates a few things:1) availability bias2) large lp returns vs building a big business3) macro vs micro

American Solidarity Party

AmSolidarity

Good morning!We don’t typically do a lot of language policing, so to speak, but the verbal distinction between police officers and “civilians” is unfortunate and should be avoided. In theory,

오락-님

im_jammed

Boy group can't use their strength on the music chart, why? http://naver.me/xnKYk4sv K-pop boy groups are seldom to stand tall in the music charts. This is in contrast to their overwhelming