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Phil Murphy 💚

HRRBFireSafety

*Trigger Warning* #Grenfell Thread: Fires involving external spread (thx S. Howard, BRE) 1/141991: Started when rubbish was set alight outside the 11-story Knowsley Heights 11 stry tower block in Merseyside,

Old Weird Scotland

WeirdScotland

Summer 1970: a rare form of typhoid is infecting people in Edinburgh. Dr Nancy Conn, a bacteriologist at Western General, finds the source and prevents a major outbreak with detective

Sami Grover

SamiGrover

I see the "how can climate people fly" debate kicking off as wildfires sweep the West. I talked to a lot of ppl on both sides of this for the

Nithya Raman

nithyavraman

LA is the largest urban oil field in the country -- and while many places mandate buffer zones between oil wells and residential areas, we don’t.This means 500,000 Angelenos breathe

Steve N

KINGS1973

So let me explain what I mean when I say the President has fouled up in executing his trade policy. I will try to explain how he undermined our trade

Macro Partners

MacroPartners

Funding rates are high, when speculative demand is high, and subsequent returns are--on average--lower. But why is that? Thread on perpetual swap funding rates explaining (a) why it swings so

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Second-Order Thinking 101We live in a world of complex systems that punish simple, linear thinking. The greatest minds consistently use second-order thinking to solve problems.But what is "second-order thinking" and

General Theorist

GeneralTheorist

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are something I have been putting off engaging with, but over the past week have come to take this seriously thanks to Ex Ante’s Grant

@ijbailey

ijbailey

Reflecting on a #DisruptTexts exchange, I had this question: Say in 2021, every school in America decided to not teach any "white" or European literature and replaced the traditional canon

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, so here's a thread about why I'm so excited about the revolution in solar+storage technology!Energy tech might be uniquely capable of boosting PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH -- something other recent innovations

Abigail Disney

abigaildisney

Thread: So here's my final word on the subject of the twitterati trying to be social workers for people they do not know. Child abuse is bad. I know this

Lux 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

So I (obviously) love Star Trek, but one of the ways I think it fails is by upholding the idea that there is one unified “human” morality and worldview —

Tim Colbourn

timcolbourn

** One year of #UKCovid19 policy failures *** THREADOne year on here are some reflections for the record. 1/ Perhaps useful for a future government to stop the next pandemic.

Ambrosini

Bendir28

1/nI'd hesitate giving entire credit of freedom to SCB. We needn't go from one unifocal hero-worship to another, particularly those in past. No country fetishises past personalities as much as

😃 unspinthespin 😃

unspinthespin

(THREAD) So what is the International Democrat Union? Stephen Harper is the chairman of this organization. They provide a forum where political parties an come together....with a globally unified voice

Amber R. Crowell, PhD

acrowellsoci

1. I'm participating in the #ScholarStrike by creating this Twitter teach-in to talk about the racialized violence experienced by Black, Latinx, and Asian communities in Fresno as a result of

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