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Venkatesh Rao

vgr

So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational

Matt Elliott

GraphicMatt

Map presented at this morning’s meeting of the Board of Health shows sporadic (community spread) COVID-19 cases over the last three weeks. Very concentrated in northwest area of the city.

Weston Testo

westo_fernnerd

Excited to see our new paper (with @frondley_fern and @MichaelSundue) on global fern diversity out at @JBiogeography -- it has been a lot of fun to work on and I

🇨🇦 Bill Comeau Crush the Curve 📉

Billius27

There are over 1.3 million adults in Canada over 80. There are another 3 million in their 70's. Vaccinate them first, vaccinate them immediately. These are the groups where vaccines

Stephanie Kelton

StephanieKelton

If MMTers were just doing standard Keynesian macro, then we would not have arrived at completely different conclusions (from mainstream Keynesians) re: the Bush tax cuts, the Clinton surpluses, the

Michael Otsuka

MikeOtsuka

If a university in England with 10,000 students resumed in person teaching today, we can expect that 6 students would be Covid-19 infected, 4 of whom would be unaware of

Eric Bandholz

bandholz

The seven biggest mistakes new entrepreneurs make:1. Only focusing on "unicorn ideas"There is so much opportunity in the world. Many small ideas become big ideas with great execution. There is

Progressive Paramedic

Prog_Para

gonna start a little thread here of #coviddata #covidfacts tackling some of the more common conspiracy talking points i've encountered one that started popping up around the end of 2020

Alex

classicmacro

Biden is not President-elect until states cast their votes (Dec/14) and congress counts the votes (Jan/6) OR Trump concedes. Trump's odds of turning the situation around via the courts are

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

Here is Gavin Williamson talking this afternoon about the decision on the evening of 14 December to force Greenwich to reopen Schools: "At that stage none of us were aware

Hugh Hendry Eclectica

hendry_hugh

I had a great chat with @RobinWigg. It’s unfortunate that he chose the term “blamed”, that i blamed central banks. I don’t believe that’s true. I made my peace with

Trent “Tate” Steidley

socsteidley

Interesting NICS data trends from October (sorry this is long)1) There didn't seem to be pre-election bump for gun sales (much to my chagrin), but gun sales are still stronger

IUOE AFL-CIONewDemocrat4ever

reesetheone1

Morning!The second poorest district in America is ran by this guy! Oh! Since were talking Maryland so much, look who has the second lowest poverty rate in America......8 out of

Phil Ting

PhilTing

As a public school parent, I’m frustrated that @SFUSD & nearly every school district across CA has failed our most vulnerable students who continue to fall further behind during #COVID19.

John Saunders

saunders_j

Thank you @ltnsyph for the lovely tote! Will take it on my next socially distanced trip to the shops #syphilis is on the rise. Below - what we know about

Mallory Noe-Payne

MalloryNoePayne

Watching the JLARC presentation of their report on legalizing marijuana in Virginia.Preview: 70 recommendations for lawmakers... The report found marijuana sales could generate $300 million in tax revenue annually

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