#Place

2021 marks 75 years since the New Towns Act was passed, leading to the creation of 32 #NewTowns across the UK which are today home to 2.8m people. To celebrate,
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I got my first real job in '99 on the biz dev team at Amazon. Like most first jobs, it was a combination of hustle and luck. I had no
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It's looking like we've turned the corner at my house, so I'm going to tell you a story about love and a pandemic. It starts two weeks ago Monday. I
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With 10 days to go, there are three main outcomes of the #Brexit talks:1) no deal2) the two sides are still talking but run out of time - qu if
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UIGHURS IN CHINAa thread ~ The Uighurs are mostly Muslims, and number about 11 million in western China's Xinjiang region.They see themselves as
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Once upon a time there lived a very eminent king by the name of Chitraketu. He had many wives but no children. One day, Maharishi Angiraj landed up in his Raj-Bhawan. With
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China reportedly launched DDoS attacks on Indian government websites and the banking system including ATMs on June 16 and 17 but they were mostly unsuccessful. Most of the attacks were
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A few thoughts on these interpretations, that appear to suggest (with caveats) that schools in England haven't necessarily contributed much to transmission. The evidence presented here does not necessarily support
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Customer friction is a huge part of running a biz.How hard is it to engage a company to work with you?Data-driven companies obsess over reducing this friction.Mom-and-pop operators SUCK at
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Just because.Here's the story of a man most of you will be completely unfamiliar with, but who was, in his day, one of the most famous people in the country,
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This is the 6th instalment of #deanehistory. I confess that beer brought me to it.The Dutch island of Texel produces some very fine beer. It was also the site of
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Situation Update, Dec. 11th – DoD de-fangs the CIA, 305th intel proves foreign interference, SCOTUS maneuversAll the pieces are falling into place for a Trump victory. The circle is nearly
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“As between the racial and sexual self-identity categories, the former holds predominance (i.e., a black man will have a higher status in Wokeness than a white male-by-birth transsexual” “In other
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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,
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Insurance is my bread and butter and I wanted to share some thoughts about what this MassMutual news means for the crypto space. https://www.coindesk.com/massmutual-buys-100m-bitcoin-bets-on-institutional-adoption-with-5m-nydig-stake First
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I've seen tweets with #AcademicChatter garner thousands of retweets + likes. Will you help us or scroll past? We are 10 Black Academics, Researchers + Professionals working to put
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