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Ran Reichman
ranreichman
A lot of people have been talking about the Israeli response to COVID-19, especially as Israel has recently relaxed many of its restrictions. In a short THREAD I hope to
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Chris Crandall
ChrisCrandall16
There is conflict afoot on whether psychological science can offer anything to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Jay Van Bavel et al (2020) offered up a smorgasbord of possibilities https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-0884-z.
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Lakshmi narayan
tamilan_ts
Lot of ppl found it whimsical on part of prime-Minister to indulge in, what they consider, dramatics at the time of ongoing crisis. I find many bjp supporters too taking
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Michael Pettis
michaelxpettis
By the eighth week of Beijing's lockdown, many sectors of the city were clearly back to normal, as you can see from the pictures below, but many other sectors –
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DegenSpartan
bruhvs,ive been nudged to come back for just a moment to share some of my thots during these dark timesme coming back for a simple thread doesnt change anything about
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Terence Renaud
terry_renaud
listen to Uncle Mike on @democracynow: "People are not going gently into Trump’s good night. They’re fighting like hell. But the problem is: Have you read about this very often?
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Filipe Aleixo
iamfilipe
No other book has broadened my perspective like this one.Here are my main insights from "The Rational Optimist" by Matt Ridley. Thankful for this recommendation from @naval.//THREAD//1/17 -> The real
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Taylor Pearson
TaylorPearsonMe
Just posted a summary and my notes from John Galls' wonderful book Systemantics, a wonderful (and funny) book on how systems workSome of my favorite lines....https://taylorpearson.me/bookreview/systemantics/ SYSTEMS IN GENERAL WORK
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Torsten Bell
TorstenBell
To distract us from the excitement of who you will/wont see over Christmas the government is putting on a Spending Review tomorrow. What should you expect? New economic forecasts will
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Levina🇮🇳
LevinaNeythiri
1/nSaturn will retrograde into Capricorn on May 11. Even before I tell u the impact of this transition, I want you to know that I put intuition over astrology. That
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Jacob is fully vaccinated
RealJacobPerry
*thread* Polling. I'll begin by apologizing in advance for the inevitable grammar/spelling/autocomplete errors in this thread. For the new folks, I've worked on dozens of campaigns since 1992. I've managed
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k'eguro
keguro_
As I was watering stuff this morning, I started thinking of that interview with Frank B. Wilderson III.https://mg.co.za/friday/2020-07-02-part-iii-afropessimism-and-rituals-of-anti-black-violence/?fbclid=IwAR23dEOgf6NtC8waC2sAodhiKUoY2wR1Zt
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Prof Dynarski
dynarski
Can/should any college resume in-person classes this fall?Best scenario I can see: small rural college real estate cheap, so solo dorm rooms feasiblequarantine upon arrival followed by testinguse all campus
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radiosyntax
One of the things that kept me going, despite numerous roadblocks, is that I wanted to grow up just like Lewis from Meet The Robinsons. Science and history were my
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Peter Salisbury
peterjsalisbury
So what’s going on with the ceasefire in #Yemen? Well, there isn’t one - yet. The good news: You can't break a ceasefire that doesn't exist. The bad news: No
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Pseudoerasmus
pseudoerasmus
Short Thread — on Developmental Pessimism. Essentially a reaction to an article in Dissent called ‘End of Development’. More precisely it’s about the end of development as industrialisation.https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/th
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