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Jack Blanchard

Jack_Blanchard_

Preparing to do the @TimesRadio paper review at 10.30am, and working my way through Boris Johnson's back catalogue of over-promises on coronavirus. It's crazy. The PM is pathologically addicted to

Rafa

rafahari

I was lucky enough to get a new laptop over the holiday break and for the first time in years I decided to set it up "as new". Here's a

Paul Millerd

p_millerd

1/ Short thread: accidental meaning hypothesisThere was a state of affairs in western societies that enabled many to have meaning in their lives through the default path of work. This

Emily Schultheis

emilyrs

1/ In Germany, a state-level government crisis in Saxony-Anhalt was narrowly averted this morning. The reason for the controversy? 86 cents.https://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/landespolitik/haseloff-zieht-medienstaatsvertrag-rundfunkstaatsver

Ed

Rx_Ed

Part of the reason behind the skepticism of nearly 50% of Americans in regard to the #coronavirus vaccine is related to what they perceive as “hastened” or “political” approach to

Dawar Butt

theLahorewala

“Why are there so many Butts?”A thread (serious content follows, unfortunately) The story begins *around* Chauburji. Many people know Chauburji as the gate of Zebinda begum’s garden. After the invasion

Kevin Lee

kevinleeme

1/ There's a fascinating story of a normal guy named Allen Hemberger who became obsessed with the Alinea cookbook. He spent 5 years re-creating all 107 recipes. There's an extremely

Dr. Anne Jefferson 🌧🏡

highlyanne

Newly accepted paper in Geophysical Research Letters claims that "Urban Vegetation Slows Down the Spread of Coronavirus Disease (COVID‐19) in the United States" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL08928

CHAS

Chaswied

All this renewed discussion about Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again made me want to re-read my office's letter from February that I had some part in writing and illustrate it

full frontal nerdity

SherrondaJBrown

here are a few pieces from @WearYourVoice to help contextualize Sunday night's episode of #LovecraftCountry (cw: medical/scientific racism) Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey were test subjects of Marion J. Sims, whom

John Roman

JohnKRoman

I keep hearing the average age of the few protestors who were arrested during the Capitol attack was about 40 years old. There were some really dangerous people in that

bi-derman ψ

IR0NSPIDEY

The amount of misinformation that people are spreading about the explosion in lebanon??? Here’s a thread about the stuff that is true: There is no firework factory in beirut, what

Kevin Baker

__kbaker__

Quick Pour Concrete Cycle Lane Kerbs This is a nerdy thread about *concrete kerbs* but I promise it will be fascinating.This new construction technique could quickly see concrete kerbs added

Zoe Tillman

ZoeTillman

There's an 11:30am ET hearing in the Trump campaign's case in Michigan alleging the state isn't complying with rules about election inspector access to absentee ballot counting and election challenger

Victor Pickard

VWPickard

For obvious reasons, the Fairness Doctrine has been coming up a lot recently. It is perhaps the most famous--and most maligned and misunderstood--media policy ever enacted in the US. Here's

Ibraheem Thurial B.

Afghan_Policy

A very good thread.Although it runs counter to the "rentier state" narrative built by Kate Clark arguing that nation building failed because of too many actors with access to "rent".https://twitter.com/jmurtazashvili/sta

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