#Science

I'll bite. The first statement may be factually correct, but I disagree with this take.Half of Google's fortress ecosystem was built or accelerated via M&A.Home run deals:DoubleClick/Semantic Labs/AdMob, Keyhole/Where2, Postini,
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Sustainability threshold concept #1: Complexity. This means: seeing the world as interconnected systems, not simple arrangements of cause and effect. Outcomes are emergent and synergistic, not additive and predictable (1/n)
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As the shrillness of Twitter arguments increase around the correct strategy to adopt in the fight against Covid-19, a few thoughts of my own.The foundation of those thoughts, for all
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"Fact checking" is just sand in the gears of non-approved information channels. The worse it is for you, the harder you check.As with all things liberal, what's in the tin
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How bizarre is it that just as women are publishing multiple books full of analysis of the harms of medical research & treatment being based mostly or only on male
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In God we trust,In #machine we believe,In #data we live,We are the next-generation human being.Sadly we don't trust humans, we don't believe in them and we have almost stopped living.
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I'll let you into a secret..Virtually all MPs - whether Tory or Labour - despise Brexit.Even many of those well known as Brexiters hate it.The whole thing is performance.But they
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There's a new Op-Ed about how "medieval" America's response to the plague is. I'm sure #MedievalTwitter has thoughts, but, since my Global Medieval Lit class happens to have been reading
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A thread. Should we give puberty blockers to kids? A recently published study says YES or so it's reported. Apparently it will stop some kids committing suicide. But how reliable
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Museum Deals Thread: A lot of museums join in on the Black Friday sales for memberships this weekend, so make sure to check your local favorites! Here’s a few we've
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1. Over my career I learned that the senior people in a field have an enormous influence over how well everyone else in the field treats each other. If they
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It’s painful to say, but as an ER doc who talked to @Mike_Pence about healthcare, I believe he's uniquely unqualified to lead the #Coronavirus response & must step down from that role. Based
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Since wildfire season is looking all-around worrisome, here's a about the stories that still need attention. First, very few places in the West have building codes to make homes safer
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A sign of a good thinker is someone who follows the evidence, even when their "tribe" is going in a different direction.Too often our opinions on difficult topics sway along
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Alright, finally in a position where I can write.So it sounds like the new Ento-L will be managed by @blayjorge, who by all means sounds like a decent guy (I
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Gender & expertise in times of corona: a thread for my new #COVIDCalls community (@jacremes, @USofDisaster) and int’l observers interested in what’s going on in Germany besides the obvious effects
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