#2020

Interesting from @LawrenceFelic in today's @Guardian. However, having worked with foodbanks for 15 years, seeing people who have gone without food for a day is not news. It has simply
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Researchers at Carbios and the the University of Toulouse have created a "mutant" variant of leaf-branch compost cutinase that can break the bonds in PET plastics.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/huge-step-forward-mutant-enzyme-could
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Giuliani is extensively promoting experimental coronavirus treatments, talking to the president several times in recent weeks about them. He has criticism for Fauci and others skeptical of the drugs. Latest
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A Biden campaign insider tells me Amy Klobuchar is leading the potential VEEP field right now ... with Kamala Harris, Gretchen Whitmer, and Tammy Duckworth all among the top contendershttps://nypost.com/2020/04/11/here-are-top-contenders-for-joe-bide
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#COVIDー19 pandemic demonstrates structural weakness our current international arrangements; there will be more interesting debates over the merits/demerits of liberal governance and ideological hegemony as usual but I wonder what
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When discussing everyone who isn't taking COVID-19 seriously, actor Tom Hanks got blunthttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-07-07/coronavirus-tom-hanks-today-show-interview-video “Look, there’s no law against ign
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Viewing the #COVID19 crisis from a systemic thinking perspective. One of the best articles I've read in a while. Thanks @zeynep for putting that piece together. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-co
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Point being corona is new, but epidemiology and public health isn’t. Plenty to learn from past “lockdowns”https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/rapid-response-was-crucial-containing-1918-flu-pandemic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history
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This week's most read: Keir Starmer’s next challenge after the Covid crisis is stopping a hard Brexit, writes @mdbuckley https://leftfootforward.org/2020/04/keir-starmers-next-challenge-after-the-covid-crisis-stopping-a-hard-brexit/ PM’s newspape
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If there'd been a leaked report revealing senior left wing Labour officials willing its electoral destruction, engaging in horrible bullying, and failing to act on racism, it would be front
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wish i had a + could predict what "new normal" will be. How much of this spike in video, collaboration will be sustained? How long before large events, conferences,
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The @TheEconomist -- but not the U.S. Treasury -- embraces an SDR allocation.(the Economist is an overstatement of course, the column is from the author of "Free exchange" this week
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Gotta share this to my twitter world:For this pandemic, there’s a greater chance of survival for those getting infected 3 months later like June 2020 than those who got infected
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#Presidementia Liar’s Club Update: Prevarication (lying, gaslighting) is a symptom of diseases like #Alzheimers—runs in families & destroyed Trump’s dad. Confabulation (bullshitting) & confusion/memory loss (calf splatter) are also signs
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Democrats play nice, get burned..Democrats do nothing, get burned..I don't know who need to hear this but this bunch of Republicans do not adhered to rules and norms..They want to
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Some "conspiracists" always get it right!Conspiracist, January 2020: "#RaTG13 virus looks like BtCoV/4991 described in an old paper that you didn't cite!" Average scientist, January 2020: Shi Zhengli, July 2020:
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