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WHAT'S GOING ON IN RESIDENTIAL AND DOMICILIARY CARE We've heard a lot today from ministers about what's going on (or should be going on) on in social care As good
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Would like to share a story that can be seen as similar case as Bright's situation.@bbrightvc #bbrightvc Son Tung MTP was in position that was hated from very young age
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THREAD re the "everybody's-got-it" school of covid truthery, which my story this wk in @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/04/11/why-a-study-showing-that-covid-19-is-everywhere-is-good-news, based on study by @in
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Humans are astonishingly bad at setting goals.We consistently establish targets that invite manipulation.THREAD: A mental model on goal setting and unintended consequences: Goodhart’s Law is a simple mental model:When a
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The biggest fraud Santhome Church tried to pull with Arch Bishop Arulappa and John Ganesh. The case has been closed. And the dramatis personae prefer to maintain a studied silence.
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In this chilling 2013 interview, @BorisJohnson admits he’s not really bumbling“I’m hard as nails” he saysHe also tells us “a terrible truth about politics & human nature”That you can “make
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I've been waiting to read Vera Stein Ehrlich's (Vera St. Erlich's) book for ages; I finally found it in Stabi ten days ago & want to share some thoughts about
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Reminder: the most basic definition of democracy is "a system in which parties lose elections." (You have to actually alternate parties in power to be sure that one party won't
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Thread: I've got a new piece out at @africaarguments talking about how public markets and cash transfers can mitigate the economic effects of coronavirus in Africa. It rounds up research
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Message to fellow climate scientists & #ClimateTwitter: After seeing many variations on theme "Are we going to reach a catastrophe in 12 years?”, I think it could be more helpful
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06/07 Scottish Coronavirus Briefing ThreadWill Sturgeon condemn the border bigots or will she condone them by remaining silent? This tweet from a briefing last week was strangely prophetic...https://twitter.com/JenRoss4Scot/status/127902215
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1/15 COMPARATIVE "GENOMIC EFFICIENCY" OF COUNTRIESHere are some quick and dirty graphs based on counts of genomes from GISAID, and population and GDP from Wikipedia. Here are the tables (sorry
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A thread summarizing ALL of our analysis on #China . I think this is required as there are still misconceptions what's going on in the world #economy at the moment.
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Well, I promised to do one of these a week. And my mother raised me never to lie to Twitter. Or something like that.Today's energy nerd thread: Green Jobs. What's
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Spending a few minutes looking through the Twitter search "Define woman" this morning. It's full of transphobes questioning random people, cis & trans alike. Aggressive, nasty, bullying tweets. Their misogynist
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Yesterday I was reading about the ideas of Girard. His first big idea is mimetic desire: when you look for the source of your desires you find that most of
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