#Economic

Several Questions arise on what was the research going on for Development of SARS-CoV2 i.e. Covid-19 or what we call #WuhanCoronavirus or #CCPVirus ! Lets glance through scientific research going
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Gonna track news of higher ed layoffs as information drops. @ me if you see more. Harvard*: layoffs of nearly all dining workers, w/ unionized direct hires getting 30-days pay.
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(1/x) Large swaths of USA now adopting extensive lockdown orders paralleling those in Wuhan. But Wuhan's response had another crucial element: central quarantine. Read this for a crazy, only-in-New York
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In Beirut just now: It felt like it was an earthquake for a few seconds then something big exploded. Not sure what it is yet. Beirut a little earlier today,
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A very long thread about Jeffrey Flynn-Paul’s Spectator essay on the “myth” that the U.S. and Canada are built on lands stolen from Indigenous nations.https://bit.ly/2ER0ozt  Karl Jacoby and I pitched
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Hello readers,This is #CovidFoodSecurity/#FoodSystems thread #4I have well over 700 articles collected in the first 3 threads already.They break a bunch; click on the "last" tweet you see & it'll
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You didn’t think you had school today, but class is now in session. We’re going to learn about the history of racist #housing policies in Seattle and how their history
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MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world. Some are complex so forgive me for oversimplifying, but the main purpose is to incite
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Justice Ranjan Gogoi was sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India at 10:50 am IST on 3rd October 2018. “I am what I am and I cannot change
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This panel was absolutely outstanding. All star line up of @Reakash, @Pam_Palmater, El Jones, @mmeenaakshii, and Latoya Farrell.Thread below highlights the many brilliant insights shared during the discussion. These are
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It is likely next week we will return to #lockdown, and with it we lose certain freedoms. Many feel angry and betrayed, many others scared. But let's stop for a
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THREAD – CLIMATE TIPPING POINTS IN @IPCC_CH 2018 AND 2019 SPECIAL REPORTS There has recently been a very broad interest in the issue of climate tipping points, following the media
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The War in Ukraine in American contextIn such a polarised country as the U.S., Russian invasion of Ukraine was immediately weaponised by the opposing political forces and became a basis
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The 12 Circassian Tribes - A ThreadThe backgrounds, stories, and legacies of the past tribes and people The Circassian people belong to an old and proud nation that's divided between
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One of the scariest things I've read.Respected historian Nancy MacLean contends that James McGill Buchanan's influential philosophy is behind the dramatic, unnerving & profound changes we're seeing played out in
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Thread with excerpts from “That Desert is Our Country: Tuareg Rebellions and Competing Nationalisms in Contemporary Mali (1946-1996)” by Baz Lecocq Tuareg call themselves “Kel Tamasheq” which means “the people
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