#Figures

We dug into India’s mysteriously low coronavirus fatality figures. We found both misreported deaths and signs of “excess” unexplained deaths linked to the pandemic /1https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-coronavirus-
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The latest @ICNARC update on ICU activity was published yesterday, and is summarised here on behalf of @COVID19actuary. Focussing on patient numbers (as outcomes are little changed), there's a clear
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One in three acres in the West Highlands and Islands between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries was purchased using slavery-derived wealth, according to a new report by @IainMacKinnon75 and
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Don’t get too worried/excited when you see articles like these:“Jeff Bezos just made $30 billion in 1 day”“Elon Musk just lost $16.3 billion”It doesn’t mean that $30bn just entered Bezos’
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Some progressives/liberals would see this simply as “dumb people rallying during pandemic”instead of “how can this 1 person become a magnet for many?”Or “what does this one person do best
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Puttin it out there, taking the risk:As a governor of my children’s high school I experienced horrendous and traumatic racist bully from the white middle class governors and staff. After
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve monitored @firstdraftnews election misinfo for both the US presidential election and the state election in Bihar, India. One thing that's striking: the discrepancies in
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Been some coverage of the National Audit Office's report on Test and Trace today, but not enough of the key line:Even in a crisis, it's still amazing that fully 70%
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On July 1, 1982, Frederick Hart was selected to design the Three Servicemen Statue. Hart was a well-known and respected sculptor whose team had placed third in the open design
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A quick briefer/refresher on influenza season in the UK.We're currently in week 40 of the year. At this point, overall deaths in the UK are steadily on the rise as
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A lot of ancient cultures have little figurines and historians and archaeologists are always trying to figure out what they are.But hear me out: Perhaps humans have always derived pleasure
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Trans erasing lesbians! OMG!!! Stop the LGBT movement at once: I want to get off. Oh, the horror...In the background, David Attenborough dons his waders once more, to intervene in
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Our country will not progress till the day our economists are respected. As an economics grad, when I quote a macro, weirdos butt in and start quoting their own figures
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The VDP has 14.6 people in categories 1 to 4 for the UK. With the gov't expressing confidence that the target to vaccinate them by Feb 15th can be achieved,
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1/ Brexit talks nugget: The two sides have wrapped up negotiations on public procurement. The UK will give European companies bidding for public sector contracts 'equal treatment' to British ones
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3 years ago, I quit a chronic sport betting habit. Never looked back. Crazy how I never won a single game but kept the streak on, because I knew people
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