#Risks

1/Medical Experts said covid-19 meant we must close businesses, cancel weddings, cancel church, miss funerals and stay home.Most of us, through tears and broken hearts, listened.The same experts then gave
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Debate *does* allow us to sharpen our ideas. It *is* a tool for doing that. It's a *tool.* Which means it has a certain usefulness.But making a tool into a
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I've been a freelancer - a contractor - for most of my life, but I've also been a salaried employee and an hourly employee and there is a significant difference
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I am angry.As a social scientist, what am I to do with my anger?And there's just so much of it.I'm angry that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. I'm angry that
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New paper out by Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, me, Eric Drexler and @mbbonsall about how the timing of evolutionary transitions on Earth suggests intelligent life is rare: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 There is life
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Tony Stark is the most selfless and caring man ever - THREAD He cares so much about everyone, he remembers little details about everyone, he always takes care of them,
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Finally finished watching #GameOfThrones and think I get it:Jon Snow (Dr. Anthony Fauci) recognizes early on that the Army of the Dead and the Night King (#COVID19) are on the
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I want to share some thoughts on the cannabis referendum (Cannabis legalisation and control referendum) and why I'm voting YES. It's not one of those threads with references and endless
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Angela Merkel “has done what Mr. Trump has not. She has been clear and honest about the risks with voters and swift in her response...A trained physicist, she has followed
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A fintech product's ultimate Product Market Fit comes from unlocking Arbitrage Market Fit.So it's not only important to Know Your Customers but also to Know Your Arb. Here are some
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Been thinking about the Chinese gov's expulsion of some US journalists b/c it is directly relevant to a book I'm writing on how authoritarian states manage their image for foreign
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I don’t know about these chiropractors right now... Essential healthcare service Essential health service providers Boosts your immune system Boost immune system function Come in we are open We will
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1/Hey #UsForThem .... YOU DID THIS.... CONGRATULATIONS! #NoMasksInClass You successfully
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It was good to discuss this with @HelenBranswell. Patents aren't a constraint to access. These things are:Lack of capacity at originators to support more tech transfers;Partners w/proven global vaccine manufacturing
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Martha, thanks for replying and acknowledging the opposition to the notion of 'behavioural fatigue'. But you don't realise how this undermines your wholesale rejection of behavioural science, nor how your
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Here some takeaways from the great event with Dominic Byatt of @OUPPolitics about academic book publishing. Hopefully, they will be useful for those who read them. #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter THREAD! https://twitter.com/AGhiselliChina
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