#World

1/8 The year started with a major Western assault on China over its handling of Covid-19. China was on the defensive. 2020 is ending with China riding high and the
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A very interesting area. I have heard from both @WHO and @NICU_doc_salone that what's vital isn't punitive enforcement but SUPPORT for quarantine.The NZ and Aus legislation on mandatory self-isolation and
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1/ For the last year or so, I've been wondering about religions: are the positive attributes of religion unique? Why be (or become) religious?@NotoriousTIB has written a book on this:
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1) Sleepy Canadians, please understand it's not about masks. It's not about social distancing. It's not about lockdowns. It's not about vaccines. These issues are mechanisms being employed to achieve
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You have done it behind the scenes for years. You have purposefully cultivated a hateful audience of TERFs, and that mob has been famously abusive for a long time. You're
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Levelle Moton on making UNC-NCCU a more regular series: “We’ve been trying to schedule games.”He says Roy called him on Wednesday and after talking for five minutes, they agreed to
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The US #Election2020 is about to be decided and the world is watching What do people around the globe want from the next American president? THREAD 1/7Here’s what young
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1/n The governors of Texas, Arizona and Florida need to face a moment of reckoning. A phase wise opening, with mandatory masks and safety, would have prevented thousands of sicknesses
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Our history is complex, as is inevitably the case for any nation state of at least 1,200 years. Re-writing parts of that history, or seeking to erase them because they
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One of the best things to happen to me in grad school was the opportunity to teach a 200-level modern military history course. I *thought* I was a military historian
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I’ve been using @calm by @TamaraLevitt for yrs. You can just imagine how this pic had the exact opposite of a calming effect. How can anyone find it calming to
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I didn’t realize it, but when I first began to wonder about whether I was disabled, I fell into an ableist trap: wasn’t “disabled” a special category for those who
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Free gyaan to law students on my timeline. Pl take it seriously - most lawyers will tell you the exact opposite. So take a call. Most lawyers, specially when they
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THREAD Interesting new data on #inequality in China coming from @WIL_inequality - on the rise but stabilizing."In China, thetop 1% captured 8% of national income in 1990 androse to 14%
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Watching gameplay videos of Ghost of Tsushima and it's likeGreat job, Sucker Punch, you made Every Modern Assassin's Creed game except with duller dialogue performed by a BUNCH of white
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For no specific reason I have been reflecting on how academia has changed since my first job. The thing that sticks out most to me atm is the loss of
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