#Regions

I've heard too many RW commentators scorn "African Studies" and I guess "Latin America Studies" too. Guess what? China doesn't take either as a joke. With the exception of a
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A thread about the coming changes to US urban economic geography. 1/x For our largest cities, net outmigration is the rule. Immigration & natural increase give the illusion that domestically
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So I have been biting my tongue after a few days of nonsense. It's no secret that most facets of this response are frustrating. Send a socially distanced hug to
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Restructuring Nigeria for a more perfect union – Perspectives by Professor Babs OnabanjoA thread https://todaynewsafrica.com/restructuring-nigeria-for-a-more-perfect-union-perspectives-by-professor-babs-onabanjo/ The year 1914 is very im
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Today we hit 200 new cases per day (by date reported to the media), but still below 200 per day (by date reported to the Health Authority). Am I glad
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Impossible to overstate importance/scale of Eur 500bn Franco-German plan to reconstruct EU regions/industries worst hit by the Covid crisis. The Marshall Plan? The Merkel/Macron Pan is THREE times bigger. More
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Breaking: 4505 new cases for Ontario. More after 10am. Remember, when cases surge there can be volatile daily case reports and corrections. Public Health is very busy in some regions.
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(1/13) The curious case of COVID-19 trends in London vs the rest of England, and the case for resistance in the population: A thread. The graph below shows the trend
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1/A follow-up thread on Nobel Prizes and Big Questions. Branko asks: Why don't we award prizes for economists who work on the incredibly important question of how China grew so
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In conversation with @iancapstick, I realized I badly overstated in a tweet this morning. So I’m going to delete that thread. And say what I should have said. A few
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After reading about pros and cons, I am pretty convinced that graphs and stats about #COVID19 should be normalized per capita or reported on comparable regions... a [THREAD] 1/15 First
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The #AEF in #WWI was composed of highly regional formations. The Army had returned to a Division based structure with the Stimson Plan which adjusted the Tables of Organization to
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We've also published our figures for deaths registered in the week ending 10 July http://ow.ly/zIfM50ADLgd  The provisional number of deaths registered in England and Wales in the week ending 10
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THREAD on new Variant of Concern (VOC), B.1.617.2: PHE released its report on B.1.617.2. It has loads of info - some quite disturbing. I'll try to go through the key
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it's kinda sus that mondstadt katheryne and liyue katheryne look the same and have the same voice and sure you can excuse it as mhy just not having enough npcs
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A plea to any & all journalists writing on Tibet/Xinjiang and security/repression/surveillance in these areas: Please *think* before you use "pioneered" & "replicated." Almost all uses of these terms I
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