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Patrick French
PatrickFrench
Great to see Arthur Lewis as a Google Doodle today. I often reference him to new faculty: “I got into the history of the world economy because Frederick Hayek, then
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Peter Maass
maassp
The last stage of genocide is genocide denial. On the 25th anniversary of the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, let us not forget the evil of the @NobelPrize organization,
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Steve Padilla
StevePadilla2
Here are 10 items for any editor’s 2021 to-do list. Resolutions for Editors, No. 1: To remember it’s not your byline on the story. Also, ask yourself: “Am I making
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Peter Onyisi
peteronyisi1
When you realize that Einstein's Brownian motion paper is really an equipartition theorem argument Reading the paper reminds me why I dislike historically-driven Modern Physics. How many of us have
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Sovia
Sweet_Honeygal
Tomorrow is 13th November. It is a gala day for all of us because on this day in 1913, Poet Rabindranath Tagore was crowned with the most Prestigious @NobelPrize for
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(((E. Glen Weyl)))
glenweyl
Despite the excellent explication by @planetmoney (https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/932048876/hacking-the-perfect-auction) I remain profoundly disturbed by the lack of follow-up on the issues around the spectrum incentive auctions: 1. Milgrom
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Lala Peñaranda
PenarandaLala
Today the "Special Jurisdiction for Peace" (@JEP_Colombia) published its findings on #Caso03 ("falsos positivos"). Findings: between 2002-2008, the Colombian state killed 6,402 civilians & marked them as guerrilla fi
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Bidisha Chakraborty / বিদিশা / बिदिशा
cherishDcherry1
A tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore on his 79th #death #anniversayFirst Indian non European 2 receive Nobel prize in LiteratureRenounced Knighthood 2 protest Jalliwanwalabagh massacre A thread exploring different dimension
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Tolessa Gurmessa
tolessag
THREAD:The irony of it all is that Hachalu was bullish on @AbiyAhmedAli . He publicly criticized the critics of the latter when they started to get chummy with TPLF early
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⭐Nereide🪐
Nereide
1/On July 9, 1955, the #Russell-#Einstein Manifesto was issued in London. Its concern was with the new, powerful H-bombs, which the signers of the Manifesto believed placed the human race
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Ruth McManus
RMcMnow
#GeoAdvent Day 2's goodie is #Norwegian #explorer, #sportsman, #geographer, #oceanographer, #scientist, #diplomat, #humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930): ‘The difficult is what takes a little time; t
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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧📷💻
PKoppenburg
Today @LHCbExperiment reports the first observation of the Bₛ⁰ → K⁻μ⁺ν process, in which a beauty-strange B meson decays to a muon and a strange kaon. It gives us access
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Haseeb S
h__sid
Just finished Range by @DavidEpstein Amazing book with plenty of stories of great people. Some of the most interesting things I learned Frances Hesselbein got her first "professional job"
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Jon Roberts
roberts170
Rating candidates is easier than ranking them.We Rate things frequently:4.5 Billion @Facebook likes daily1 Million doodle polls every daily@YouTube likes and dislikes?@amazon product reviews?Restaurant ratings ...?A Rating of candidates imp
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Samuel Moyn 🔭
samuelmoyn
1/ It's kind of amazing to me that no one has done a study of the imperialist entanglements of Gustave Moynier, the de facto founder of the International Red Cross,
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J-PAL Africa
JPAL_Africa
In this last week before holiday office closures, we want to reminisce on 2020, the good times... and the less good times... but most importantly we want to acknowledge our
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