#Scale

Paolo Medina MD

LopaoMD

To my fellow medicine faculty members, sorry for being presumptuous but if you guys are like me - struggling physically, mentally, emotionally and professionally during this pandemic - imagine how

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. In tracking #COVID19 I make frequent use of @jburnmurdoch's semi-log plots of daily death by country. A semi-log plot is helpful because a slope on a semi-log graph corresponds

Thomas Baekdal

baekdal

Every single month we see yet another person claiming that micro-payments will 'solve' things for the media. And the argument we often hear is this:Only 4-5% are willing to buy

Vinay Gupta

leashless

I do not talk much about "the sacred" because even to open your mouth about it, in a world full of starving, oppressed, maimed people is obscene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTi1d1x9Mlk&t=1m40s *pay attention

Jasleen Minhas MD

jasleenminhas

This past week has been emotionally burdensome. There’s a disconnect between my home in the US - where we’re hopeful, and may be turning a corner with #COVID d/t vaccinations,

Jeremy PLEASE WEAR MASKS! Konyndyk

JeremyKonyndyk

It seems humanitarian donors are leaving civil society organizations - local and international - on the peripheries of the global COVID fight. That's a big mistake.Let's look at where the

GET A GRIP

docrussjackson

If newspapers told the truth... Admit it: you have very little idea of the reality of twenty-first century wealth inequality, nor what what a trillion looks like when compared to

Anuradha Parekh

AnuradhaParekh

Lijjat Papad was acing ‘Work From Home’, long before it became a new-age buzzword! Born out of the need of 7 women to financially support their families, it is now

AlexPof

YistvanPof

Look at this trumpetI didn't know there were original instruments of this type which were still playable !I usually post about math/music, but I also like strange musical instruments, so

Les Floyd

Lesism

People in the US are at a crossroads, now, and their votes will not only decide their President... it will change the course of their and human history.Vote Biden for

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

You know what? Gonna do a little thread about this. (May not be little.)A lot of the pandemic is going to be analyzed through a lens of partisan blame. Did

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

Trick or treating arrived in America in the 1910s, and previously was basically a Scottish thing. Early on many cities banned it as a form of extortion of homeowners and

Day Trader Simran

day_simran

MEGA-THREAD on TREND LINES. I will share the most comprehensive and exhaustive guide to trend lines in this thread.I've included read world examples for clear understanding. This is everything you

Eliezer Yudkowsky

ESYudkowsky

Story concept: AU where capitalism actually works the way the illiberal left thinks it does. Almost the entire economy is still medieval peasants in mud huts; their crops are scarce

Rachel Glennerster

rglenner

At today's briefing of Permanent Representations in Geneva I talked about the huge economic benefits of vaccines in preparation for the Global Vaccine Summit on June 4 for @Gavi replenishment

philly yeehaw

mckellogs

some people who have gotten sick, lost people, or are working the front lines of this are being traumatized. but I just don’t think we can say that most people,