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My own two cents on the #socialmodel:TLDR: If YOU want to change YOURSELF (body, pain, identity) for YOUR convenience, you're valid! BUT nondisabled people in society should NEVER force you
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Last year the Geneva-based Mixed Migration Centre commissioned me to look into the effects of the pandemic on urban migrants. Months of research showed me that COVID-19 is an "arrival
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Black History Month: 28 Days; 28 Facts. FACT NO. 13: On this date in Black History – February 13, 1920 – Andrew "Rube" Foster organizes The Negro Baseball League, the
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Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 1/14TL;DR: don’t trust
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Another one? Really?https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1292455607610597377 OK, I'll give it up to @elizabethjdias -- this was one of the better versions of this piece. But I just have to say, it is no
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Some thoughts arising from the current #Brexit blame game (which won't surprise anyone who follows me; except that it's a thread):1. Although very few in popular news media & politics
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Warning this thread is gonna be long!Please bear with me.Raison D'etre why Punjab has emerging as State driving Farmers' Agitation ...ARHTIYAS & THE ANATOMY OF A "FARMERS PROTEST"Contd ...https://ruralindiaonline.org/a
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The influence of my native town on my character is profound. The sleepy little town of Palakkad (Palghat) in Kerala is extremely laid back. No one seemed to be in
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Let's take a quick trip to learn a little about the @USDOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (@TransportStats). This is a department @PeteButtigieg will love, being the stats and data #nerd
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What's that? You would like another thread by me? Sure! Here you go. The following tweets are a list of questions I flesh out before I outline and BEFORE I
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The future of education looks like Y Combinator.Here are 10 things schools can learn from the program:1. Make the test matter: In school, most tests are boring and unimportant. At
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1/ it’s been 1 week since I last posted an Oregon #COVID19 trend threadI feel like it’s important to continue to stay on top of the data and local trends
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Let me tell you a bit about #COVID19 in #Maine. First, you may think of Maine as a rural state, and largely it is, but not entirely. We have a
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Instead of trying to fight strangers on the internet because they don't know how USPS fckn works lemme give y'all a small rundown as a former postal carrier for a
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Hey, @MAJORshailendra @AlphaWo40963407 @Maverick_bharat @AskAnshul @utsavtechie @sharmajitech @geekyranjit @ShokeenSanchit Thread: The Rise and Fall of Indian Smartphone Companies So, let's begin: (1/n) There was a time in mid-2014 that
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Thread: no one will likely listen, but this is important. I just watched my cousin’s “meet the dean” video. And it made me shake with rage. I will have to
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