#Environment

Mario Draghi has formed his government. This ain't a repeat of the Monti government. Yes, there are a number of technocrats - including as finance minister - but it's also
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The UK isn’t racist. A thread. Our Prime Minister advocates for white supremacy in Africa. One rule for one group, another for anyone else How Mark Duggan was portrayed by
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A majority of respondents were telling pollsters they were better off than they were four years ago and that they approved of the president's handling of the economy. The environment
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I want to talk a little bit about AHDH and burnout. In particular I want to talk about how some things we associate with ADHD are actually behaviors we learned
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one thing that has been surprisingly helpful for me during quarantine has been developing a regular cleaning schedule. the upside is that I feel some agency/control over my environment and
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Todays lesson in The Fascist economyUnder Trump, feed grain subsidies soared, because he lost a pissing contest with China.Subsidies encourage large corporations to plant millions of substandard acres, export marginal
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I despise that tech people call scooter loan companies 'micro-mobility startups'. Simply having an app *must* stop being the bar for being classed as a 'tech startup'. Similarly, can people
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A bizarre but surprisingly common argument is some version of: "SAT/IQ/etc is merely about parental income and nothing else."This is simply empirically false. First off, the correlation between wealth/income of
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For whoever needs to hear this: even if you don't do a pre-doc or go to a top 30 school, you can still have a rewarding career in economics. I
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I will be discussing the relationship between wearable technologies and the body. I argue that wearable technologies that are designed for fitness used in concurrence with social media which promotes
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We are in a relentless Arctic #heatwave - Siberia is literally on fire right now and it's set to continue.Temperatures will comfortably exceed + 30 °C within the Arctic Circle
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The decision between "send kids to school in-person and potentially risk the entire family's health & lives" and "send kids to school online despite knowing it's a suboptimal learning &
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Very important point to be made for anyone involved in organizing their job. Why does the union-buster over-communicate, doesn't that just annoy workers? Critically, what are the implications for inoculating
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1/3 @ClinpsychLucy Hi Lucy, In PTMF overview trauma, is stated 155 times, genes, temperament, neurodevelopmental, hardly at all. Trauma is singularly causal of distress in PTMF, ie 2D causality. Rutter
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The main reason I joined PF was for the people, and our collective nerdy interest in the ins and outs of the work we do. @racheljanetwolf has it right here
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THREAD. MUSINGS ON THE ECONOMIC SHUTDOWN, THE ORGANIC CONSUMER DEBT BUILDUP VS COVID-RELATED, ETC. A long-term low interest rate environment in Canada has done what it was originally supposed to
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