#1918

Koye (Mogbekeloluwa)

koyegbeke

I wrote about my top-10 books of 2019 on my Blog. I'm starting this year by re-reading 3 of my favorite books from last year in parallel with a few

David Fisman

DFisman

A thread...great news on the vaccine front this week, but perhaps a good time to remind folks that this is NOT the new normal, and that pandemics have a beginning,

Vaibhav Kaul

Himalayologist

Born MountaineersSheep and goats cross the frozen PharaLaRtse (‘Crossroads Pass Peak’, aka Baralacha La), a pass that connects Lahaul and Spiti to Ladakh and Zangskar (4,830 m). The two headstreams

Wolfram Lacher

W_Lacher

Civil war, contested historiography, and a Ramadan TV series in #Libya.Since Friday, the Ramadan TV series الزعيمان (the two leaders) has polarized opinion on Libyan social media and provoked a

Matt Malkus

malkusm

1/ @BallouxFrancois - I am curious if you have examined other aspects of the 1889 Russian flu pandemic, which you mentioned here. There are several similarities to #SARSCoV2 which I

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

Why should we not worry about VARIANTS "escaping" immunity from vaccines or natural infection; why are we not likely to need vaccine BOOSTERS? Remember immunity is both antibody and cell-mediated

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

It’s been obvious for weeks now that a Wuhan-style shutdown was inevitable in the world’s second-biggest country. Despite having time to plan, government officials are putting India's urban poor in

Aram Aghababyan

kuatemoc

NKR Conflict - Historical and Internaitonal Law issues (A Thread) Artsakh is an integral part of historic Armenia. During the Urartian era (9-6th cc. B.C.) Artsakh was known as Urtekhe-Urtekhini.

Molson Hart

Molson_Hart

The Future of Brick-and-Mortar Retail Real EstateI found a brick-and-mortar retail property for sale near me. It's fairly cheap and not too much money. It's in a good location.This spurred

Wallace Kantai

wgkantai

One day someone will write THE book about perhaps the most devastating pandemic to ever hit East Africa. No, not Covid or even the 1918 flu, but the twin rinderpest

Ayẹni Adékúnlé S.

ayenithegreat

I used to think the world was experiencing a leadership crisis. From Abuja to London and Washington, I’d shake my head and think ‘why are we allowing the worst amongst

Niall Murphy

MurphyNiallGLA

#MomentsofBeauty in #Glasgow: So, I’m out on my morning perambulation around the #Southside and I bump into this pretty lady with her jaunty hat...! But who is she? What building

Henry Farrell

henryfarrell

1. A short thread on this very interesting conversation between @njtmulder @adam_tooze and Mark Mazower last week on coronavirus and big structural questions, trying to pull together a few of

tyro

DoubleEph

As you guys know, I’m now a highly sought after corona expert on Twitter. So I want to share some random thoughts that came to me while I was in

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Thread. The herd immunity mentality. I agree with Jeremy Farrar that UK might be on track for the largest COVID-19 death toll in Europe. I believe that this will also

Aaron Rupar

atrupar

wut Trump is using the lie that he banned travel from China (he restricted it but didn't ban it) to take credit for saving "untold numbers of lives" (the coronavirus