#Global

Richard Florida

Richard_Florida

1. Lots of conversation about the big shifting geography of US high-tech. @IanHathaway's assessment is here:http://www.ianhathaway.org/blog/2020/10/14/us-venture-deal-activity-during-the-covid-19-pandemic 2. As a baseline, let me post s

Kyle Davey

KyleDavey86

Imagine you were born in 1900. When you’re 14, World War I begins and ends when you’re 18 with 22 million dead.Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears,

Kate McManus, MD

kmcmanusMD

Congratulations @CGHUVA & CGHE Director @Dr_RADillingham on the name change to Center for Global Health Equity! #HealthEquity https://globalhealth.virginia.edu/center-global-health-equity Great @UVa_LifetimeLrn event starting with a co

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis

ArmsControlWonk

"National Security Directive-1" What the hell? A short thread.https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/21/national-security-directive-united-states-global-leadership-to-strengthen-the-international-covi

Noelle

NoelleInMadrid

The OCC says that banks can use public blockchains as a settlement structure - BIGGEST step I’ve seen so far towards a merging of traditional and crypto markets, and MUCH

rachelmercer

rachelmercer

(1/5) Having an interesting conversation with a friend where they’ve posited that we don’t love advertising anymore is because we don’t seem to see as much great, captivating work as

Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳

Aabhas24

1/n #SadarPranam to Ishvara within you Shri @cjwerleman I'm sorry to disappoint you Mr Tarbooj, as in this thread I'll compile Statistics about "Global Terrorism" & also rebut your fake

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Let this injustice sink in—Just 10 wealthy countries have monopolized 75% of all vaccinations delivered worldwide. Now the United Nations has sharply criticized developed countries for hogging #COVID19 vaccines and

diane #ForAll straub

didikins4life

This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This part is called: Mobilizing the World to Address Transnational ChallengesGlobal Health and PandemicsOnly one party understands the urgency of strengthening the global

Ted Nordhaus

TedNordhaus

1. Have global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels peaked? @KenCaldeira and I have made a Long Bet @longnow. I say they have. Ken says they haven't. Neither of us is

Jeremy P. Barker

jaybark7

79.5 Million. 1 in 97. Those numbers are huge. They are those forcibly displaced. 26 million refugees. 45 million internally displaced. In the immensity of those numbers, don’t forget to

J.

PresentWitness_

Inverted Signals In the inverted world, markets crash upwards. People have more sex and less children. They go to school longer and learn less. Police protect the criminals, etc. But

Architects for Social Housing

9thfloor

This is Dr. June Raine, the interim CEO of the Medical & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) responsible for overseeing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. Over the past decade

Dangbana Orisa Skrrr

Adheydayor

With talks on the need for local value chains due to COVID-19 disrupting global supply chains and rising protectionism, is there any study of the impact on global food prices

Kevin Anderson

KevinClimate

1/ The Govt's committee on climate change has added its 6th budget period on the pathway to ‘net-zero’ by 2050. But @theCCCuk suggests it's not possible to convert Paris 1.5-2°C

Gregg Carlstrom

glcarlstrom

Since "pivoting east" is still popping up in Lebanese media, quick thread. It's true that China doesn't impose political conditionality. They don't care if you're a democracy, a dictatorship or

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