#Decline

Michael R. Strain

MichaelRStrain

THREAD. Do successive generations do better than their parents? Has the U.S. become a rigid “class society,” or is Horatio Alger’s vision of economic advancement through hard work still alive

Dan A.

TypewritingDA

Okay, rewrite thread why Woodley does not have good fight IQ:Basically, every fighter has two main general attributes: Physical gifts and technical skillset. How you leverage those in correlation is

Health Nerd

GidMK

Have lockdowns been bad for the economy?A new report from the International Monetary Fund has a very interesting answer to the question 1/n 2/n The report is here, and well

💧 Tim Buckley

TimBuckleyIEEFA

Indian electricity demand has dropped 21% in absolute terms since the start of March 2020. As the high marginal cost source of power, coal-fired power generation is down 28%. @RajKSinghIndia,

Philip Jung

makro_philip

Why might we need random samples on a regional level repeatedly every 4 weeks in Germany? Some thoughts: There are two broad exit scenarios discussed: 1) controlled infection shielding (somehow)

Alatar the Blue

Auslandsgruppe1

Here's a little historical context from Antiquity that I think illustrates and complements what Gandalf is talking about.In Plato's Ion we have a dialogue between Socrates and a professional rhapsode

Juliette O'Brien

juliette_io

Thread. I spent last night looking at Australia's #COVIDー19 testing dataEspecially after we heard the PM say Australia has one of the highest testing rates in the world. True? 1/10http://www.covid19data.com.au #COVID19au

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

Entropy rules all.The only way to offset this fundamental tendency towards chaos and disorder is to input new energy into the system.It is re-cognition and using old assets in new

dendylion 🏳️‍🌈🦁

taizou_hori

prior to @retropalshq stream tonight i've got myself into a big Japanese internet hole about Culture Brain. it's a fascinating company without much good info about it in English at

Bloomberg Opinion

bopinion

Part of this is simply chasing consumer demand.Seeking a source of tasty fats with a smaller carbon footprint than the cattle industry is a justification for consumers to switch, and

Sophia Gaston

sophgaston

Not that long ago, it seemed our biggest challenge in the West was the rise of insurgent populist & anti-establishment movements. What does #coronavirus mean for the West's 'populist moment’?

James Todaro, MD

JamesTodaroMD

1/ My thread on T-cell immunity got about 7 million views.It's great to see so many people interested in understanding the science and medicine of this pandemic, even in a

Jet (aka Courtney) Jacobs

CourtneyEJacobs

Going to spend the day watching all the movies that fall into my favorite micro-genre (the dudely corollary to the “manic pixie dreamgirl” phenomenon). I call it:The Manic Dreamboat Assassin

Rabbi Josh Yuter

JYuter

1. THREAD: We need to have a conversation on reductive Judaism. Specifically, when people reduce complicated halakhic issues to one aphorism in isolation of everything else, we wind up with

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

Tony Fauci says the US death toll is ‘going to be very disturbing’, even when you consider the 120k+ lives lost already. He’s right. I would optimistically estimate that the

{awakening bhārata}

ancient_bharat

Recently, a DNA analysis of some skeletalremains at the Rakhigarhi site, have QUESTIONEDthe so called "Aryan invasion theory"RAKHIGARHI SITE IN HARYANAIt is one of the five known biggest townships ofHarappan