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We know that COVID-19 is bad in Maharashtra. But how bad? How prevalent is COVID-19 in Mumbai? Has it peaked? Is it going to be over any time soon? I
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policy thread Let’s talk about the Trump executive order that eliminates racial equity training from all federal agencies and federally funded programs that came up during the debate last
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Somehow ended up explaining the #Milgram Experiment on Obedience to the kids, which they found intriguing (1/9)I'm amazed it was replicated in 2008 (now with ethics)! Very clear read, also
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In the latest issue of AJS, @adamreich and I provide empirical evidence that mass incarceration influences not just individual-level employment outcomes, but the structure of the labor market as a
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The Democrats $2.3 trillion climate infrastructure bill could worsen blackouts, inflation, & poverty but, in the biggest pro-nuclear victory to date, could also save America's nuclear plants My latest for
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Our new paper about word-meaning priming is out now in JML! “The relationship between sentence comprehension and lexical-semantic retuning”. With @DrMattDavis @mggaskell @JenniRodd https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104188 Here’s a th
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John Bolton provides a harrowing portrait of Trump's surrender to Putin. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/john-bolton-provides-a-harrowing-portrait-of-trumps-surrender-to-putin/ via @MotherJones According to Trump’s own to
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THREAD: The five “states” of a planetary placement in astrology, aka explaining rulerships and “strong,” “weak,” and “neutral” placements of the planets in signs and what they mean in your
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Having worked at BlackBerry in its heyday (early 2000s), I see a lot of parallels to what Zoom is going through. Of course, that story did not have a happy
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Forget fucking Cambodia, here is a short thread on why tank numbers absolutely matter and the real reasons 148 upgraded CR2 just won't cut it for the UK Army. 1/https://twitter.com/pinstripedline/status/1121025942992949248
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What made USA change its heart in a day and agree to release embargo on raw material for SII & Bharat biotech? As soon as Biden took to office, American
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If Biden wins there will be an almighty scramble from the UK to keep the trade deal alive. Having chatted to well-placed sources this is my understanding for how Britain
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A biochemical mechanism for greater susceptibility of African americans to severe COVID: higher mean levels of IL-6 than Caucasians or Japanese controlling for BMI.( 1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3039107/#!po=14.6259 )IL-6 is cytokin
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A few days ago, I turned 34. ----RANDOM THREAD----Virtue ≠ Virtue Signalling - There is no Happiness for a Woman without a Happy Family. - There is no Happiness for
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A statement to be released by ISIS shortly, either from the new leader or the spokesman (more likely). It was expected given the recent surge in attacks. A new statement
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I see twitter has caught up to where we were on tumblr six years ago with “don’t say ableist slurs such as st*pid or cr*zy.” can I hit fast-forward on
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