#Regions

Swati

swatiatrest

It is unsettling to think of how widespread slave trade was in the Bengal and adjacent regions in the 16th-17th c, and its near absence from contemporary public memory. From

alan drummond

alandrummond2

Lessons learned will prove crucial in controlling a second wave of COVID-19The intervention that proved far more important was universal masking – requiring all hospital staff to wear surgical masks

Bhaskar Kamble

MeruPrastara

I have always suspected that the narrative of the "Islamic Golden Age", "Islamic Mathematics" or "Arabic Mathematicians" is just myth and propaganda. In this thread I explain why. (cc @GarudaPrakashan,

BALPA

BALPApilots

The news of a potential new airline in the UK is to be welcomed. This is just the start of a long journey to a new Flybe, but we hope

David Smith

DWS81926937

I listen to @TBLTalkMedia regularly, it's always great but this week was exceptional. It's the first time I've ever really heard the stuff that I have obsessed over at work

Tory Fibs

ToryFibs

Thread. The UK Government is at a cross-roads in its CV19 response. I want to lay out in the thread below why so many of the very recent decisions the

elij

elijaleeh

pray and send healing vibes for my family in Panama; my aunt, who works in surgery, and all those in the op room, are waiting on covid test results. my

Ev Fedorenko

ev_fedorenko

Thread: "Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network” https://tinyurl.com/y77cuznv is out in Cognition and is a culmination of one line of work, which I

Robert Peston

Peston

I have been banging on about how the number of people dying right now of #COVID19 is much higher than it should be, if @CMO_England and @uksciencechief are right that

Kvothe

Pen_Strokes

On the topic of legislation for state policing capable of facing terror. The last time states or regions were allowed to control a fighting force during the 1st republic, Ojukwu

NWS Tallahassee

NWSTallahassee

9/13 - 11pm CT. [Thread]. We're going to detail some of the impacts we're expecting from #Sally across our forecast area. This data is from the 10pm National Hurricane Advisory.

William Joy

WilliamJoy

The new Beige Book from the Federal Reserve district is out and they didn't bury the lede:"Economic activity contracted sharply and abruptly across all regions in the United States as

Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala1

People forget that Africa gets a fraction of the global intercontinental travel traffic. It's unlikely that we are miraculously immune to COVID-19. More likely that infected people are less likely

MI House Republicans

MI_Republicans

Thousands of people from all over Michigan are converging on our state Capitol today to protest the governor’s restrictive “Stay Home” order and get their voices, and car horns, heard.

Justin Trudeau

JustinTrudeau

We’re doing everything we can to help businesses across the country. And to make sure regional businesses - including those in the tourism sector and seasonal industries - are getting

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

Use of care and mortality due to corona in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia; data from yesterday 14.4.Read the whole thread. (English)Fig 1. Number of persons in intensive