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Alex Berenson

AlexBerenson

1/ Hey, at least @neil_ferguson is consistent. Here he is in 2005 predicting that bird flu might kill 200 million people. Yes, 200 MILLION. As in 200,000,000.(Spoiler alert: it didn't.)By

L' Homme Noir

DrTJC

In graduate school, I wrote a paper on DuBois, Hegel, and Bacofen. The white philosophy professor told me that he would only grade the section on Hegel b/c DuBois was

Zionism = Settler Colonialism

bitterarab

People like to pretend that Palestine is a polarising issue (much of it I blame on decades of misinformation, Zionist propaganda and the dehumanisation of Palestinians), but after years of

All About Work

all_about_work

I've just finished reading several Canadian newspapers' Saturday editions, including the #book pages. These pages have suffered a lot in recent years (staff cutbacks, reduced space, etc.) But that's not

Alex Pigot

alex_pigot

We are delighted that our paper with @christrisos and Cory Merow on ‘The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change’ is out today in @Nature https://nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2189-9. Free readcube

Mazi Makuochukwu Eze-Trump

ezemakuochukwu

Our police officers need enlightenments.Was coming back from hospital yesterday from my son's immunization. Close to my area, policeman stopped me and I wound down my window. He asked me

bruise almighty

kmlefranc

I had to get a background check for my job, and it turns out the report is a 300+ page pdf of every single tweet I’ve ever liked with the

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TobioApple

I have OCD when it comes to organizing shit/ checking stuff I’ll literally lock the door 5+ times, check to see if my phone is in order, I’ll stand in

Jake

JakeEliot

Now, some weeks into the COVID-19 crisis, I've read my fill of LinkedIn blogs advising on how to work effectively from home. I've had a few disparate thoughts about policymaking:

Emmeline Spankhurts 🍸

MmeEmmeline

Looking at the movement restrictions for #COVID19au in NSW it is horrible for people who live alone. Unless we are exercising we can’t have visitors, we can’t do much of

Taepodong

stoa1984

is an interesting doku. But the North Korean arms catalog (pic 1) looks like a version of , which is printed by a publisher in Moscow. On

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

New paper on "The Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation" in Annual Review of Psychology w/ @JoHenrich. Many mechanisms have been proposed to explain human cooperation. How well do they

Indu Makkal Katchi (Offl)

Indumakalktchi

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.

Dr Kevin Purcell

kevinpurcell

Excellent paper.“we describe the first native RNA sequence of SARS-CoV-2 [using direct nanopore sequencing], detailing the coronaviral transcriptome [all the RNA, mRNA, sgRNA, made by the virus] and epitranscriptome [all

Irish Data Viz

IrishDataViz

@HIQA report into excess deaths in Ireland is almost brilliant. Commendable use of complex statistical techniques and presentation of results. One big problem: the highly precise number of 1,072 excess

Soumaya Keynes

SoumayaKeynes

Hello! I wrote a thing about that tiny topic that is the future of world trade... featuring @kevinhorourke, @kdziczek, @jacob___parker, Mike Jette of @GEP_Worldwide, Pierre Sauvé of @WorldBank, Bernard Hoekman