#Crucial

I've been asked to give a few thoughts on the #GRANT documentary. I'm going to limit my comments to the interpretation of Grant's life in St. Louis, which is my
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Must-read article in @TheEconomist, but it seems to me that it fails to consider a crucial intertemporal dimension of the multidimensional tradeoff we face:https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/04/01/covid-19-presents-stark-choices-between-life-deat
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On a train back from Newcastle, reading the Labour manifesto and (inspired by last retweet) listening to Wham - Last Christmas, which is clearly the best Christmas song ever This
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Readers who know John Le Carre’s books “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold” and “Tinker, Tailor,Soldier, Spy” will understand Spygate. What happened in 2015/6 is lifted directly from
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1/4If near-record iron ore prices reflect stronger-than-ever demand from China, the two most likely explanations are, first, that there has been as of yet no rebalancing of domestic demand towards
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The @BritishArmy Anti-Aircraft Command was a crucial part of the Dowding System. It operated searchlights and anti-aircraft guns against incoming German raids. Anti- aircraft guns shot down approximately 300 Luftwaffe
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A thread on two types of altcoin traders - people mix them up, misunderstand and then flame them on Twitter when x happens.(x = breakout, breakdown, sideways, bart, whatever) I
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The licensing for sports franchises now that the streaming wars is upon us is easily going to be the last big transition into fully digita. You see the NFL already
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Two months ago India confirmed 11,300 cases per day.This shows the rise of confirmed cases since then.A straight line on a logarithmic axis tells you that you are looking at
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one thing this pandemic has clarified is that I'm not really the same class as my family anymore. My brother is high-risk due to chronic pneumonia and other health issues.
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Bursting the myths that @mipaltan picks all star players and have a strong team.. Let us look at the major starting 11 of MI in this IPL..1. Rohit Sharma, the
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THREAD on Morty’s response to his involvement with Marsh & McLennan during the Conversation with the President on May 19 No one at any time has questioned President Schapiro’s personal
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September is #ChildhoodCancerAwareness month. Tumours of brain and spinal cord are the most common solid tumours in children and are only second to blood cancer in overall numbers of cancer
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Here’s a thread on the current status of LA’s COVID-19 outbreak.Summary: daily deaths and cases are increasing, but the growth is relatively slow so far. We’re also now probably seeing
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The US has the highest number of #COVID19 cases globally.So instead of:Providing accurate information to the public.Ensuring frontline workers have access to PPE.Mass producing ventilators.Scaling up testing.The president announced an
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1/ Thread: Hormesis 101. Hormesis is a biphasic dose response organisms have to environmental agents/stressors. It is biological proof that the Nietzschism, "Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker" —arguably
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