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Iowa Water Center
IowaWaterCenter
For the first time in human history, more than half the world's population lives in urban areas, a number that is only projected to grow. With #urbanization comes an increase
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Isaac Callan
isaaccallan
It's been a bit of a blockbuster fortnight at @PointerSauga and @PointerBrampton. Some brilliant features and reporting from my amazing colleagues. This investigation by @JoeljWittnebel exposes the devastating impact the
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Ramathan Ggoobi
rggoobi
I can see Western “experts” are struggling to come to terms/explain why #Africans, with our poorly equipped health systems, are not dying (at least as much as Americans & Europeans)
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Nicolas Baumard
baumard_nicolas
We are interested in the former, not the latter: what do portraits display for others to perceive, be it real or not. The last piece of historical knowledge that informed
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Nate Silver
NateSilver538
Here's what the electoral map would look like if votes were determined solely by population density, measured by the average number of people that live within a 5 mile radius
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Nerys Avery
nerysinchina
Groundhog Day... China to ease urban residency restrictions to boost urbanization | http://english.scio.gov.cn http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/chinavoices/2020-04/10/content_75914992.htm Some great context and analysis on the thorny issue of relax
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Panos Roussos
panos_strather
By now, we all have read/seen dozens of analyses, videos (like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9yqWNIG8A) linking coronaviruses with: 1)Industrialization of farming (not 'domesticated' but *abused* animals), incl. excessive (mis)use of #an
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Ike ORAIFITE👑👑
its_bugatti
Nnewi is gearing up for the massive urbanization that awaits her as soon as a idealogical government comes on board,come 2021 (structurally) .A lot of office spaces fit for innovative
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Tim Tunden
Tim_Tunden
“The massive contempt of the ‘civilized’ for the ‘barbarians’ (who included the bulk of the labouring poor at home) rested on this feeling of demonstrated superiority.”— Hobsbawm. Age of Revolution
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Farooq Butt
fmbutt
One interesting mega trend happening out there today is a stress test of the whole concept of the "nation state".The nation state is not a self-evident thing that is a
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Mikael Bergqvist
mik_bergqvist
1/ A favourite problem that I think about a lot is: 'how can we make urban planning processes more available, democratic and transparent?' #github #g0v #lankadedata #smartcity #urbanplanning 2/ According
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Sean Durns
SeanDurns
One of the more interesting—& tragic—facts of history: In the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution, Tsarist Russia was, in fact, improving—& on a grand scale. While Russia had lagged
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Grant
GrantBrooke
Good Question. Why doesn’t Kenya export bananas? Some reasons... A) to be globally competitive price wise the farm gate price would need to be
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Philip Rocco
PhilipRocco
Pundits / academics often talk about democratic erosion as if it isn't already present in the US. All that does is defer the responsibility to act, abstract the discussion of
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diet dr pepper defender
colonthatsme
anyone got advice for not spiraling into depression upon reflecting on the fact that our fucked up systems have their roots in dumb human psychological and physiological quirks and that
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✠ ᑕᗩEᔕᗩᖇ ᒪᗩᑌᖇEᑎTIᑌᔕ ✠
cruxed_crusader
Urbanization seeks to destroy the natural landscape by perpetually expanding outward. It promises to destroy culture through groupthink & materialism. The city is unnatural to our way of life. We
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