#Applied

alex hern

alexhern

of many shocking things I've read about the A level cluster, this is, I think, the worst.https://ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2020/08/a-level-results-2020-how-have-grades-been-calculated/ if your Maths A level class is predicted .2% A*s,

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 1.6 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 881,000 applied for regular state UI, and 759,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf There

Get Paid More

GetPaidMore

THREAD: How I turned $40 into $25000 in only one year.At the start of last year, I decided that I wanted money for investments.I am a man of very modest

Prathamesh Godbole

prathgodbole

Wonderful read- an autobiography by SL Kirloskar, on starting and running a manufacturing conglomerate in early 1920s Indiahttp://kirloskar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cactus-and-roses.pdf kingdom of Mysore invited them to setup a machin

Turning Point European Union🇪🇺

EvropeanUnion

Brown men will do more to protect slavery in Qatar than to abolish slavery. [Context below] 1/ This Qatari citizen spends their entire time denigrating Western countries for alleged racism

Dylan Morris

dylanhmorris

This pandemic should upend how biologists think about virus transmission—for the better. My greatest regret is having parroted received wisdom early on. I said our @NEJM aerosol stability findings were

Azhar Mashwani

MashwaniAzhar

A visionary project: Pakistan’s first foreign engineering university, the Pak-Austria FachhochschuleIt is the first university in Asia (& possibly in world) in which 8 leading engineering universities in Austria &

gel 🇻🇦

gelidustoto98

My go to book rec. A first hand account from a Marxist perspective of the failures and successes of land reform in China. A book about many things from economics,

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_TheBrows_

QRT for easy threading... thank u for sharing ur experience... As someone that pushed thru their CS major and graduated, I literally hated and did poorly in every required CE+Math

Rhodri Davies ☕️ 🤔

Rhodri_H_Davies

Been thinking about Chancellor Rishi Sunak's remarks about the "gentleness of charity" this week, (which have raised quite a bit of ire) & wondering if they point to terminological confusion

Tony💯

illPhysics

A month b4 a fundamental nerf (& IMO gross over-alignment) to Quickdraw based on @Bungie's arbitrarily applied "negates downsides" philosophy.If not for fast reactions & QD, I would've died to

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anarchonbury

This is a misguided take and I'm going to explain why. 1/https://twitter.com/VanigliaRy/status/1278676142346641408 When the term Karen was introduced it gained popular standing because it encapsulated something immaterial about a certai

Sangita Myska

BBCSangita

NEW THREAD: Just watched the ITV doc about #MarySeacole. It appears there are actual Seacole deniers who seem to think she didn’t deserve a statue. I’m gobsmacked. Let me

Daniel Vassallo

dvassallo

If you feel you’re about to lose your job soon (involuntarily or voluntarily), here are some things I did just before I left mine.(US examples, but likely applicable everywhere.) 1.

Adam Ni

adam_ni

Greg, if you could indulge me for just just a few tweets...In the 1950s, US went into a frenzy about Red China's "brainwashing" (mind control) of Korean War PoWs, thinking

Achmat X

AchmatX

Both pictures are from today. One is from the park in Harlem, the other is from the park in West Village. Guess which neighborhood has police enforcing social distancing? “Playgrounds