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i have misplaced my name tag. it must have fallen off during my walk earlier. i am now completely unidentifiable. i can be whoever i want. i am mysterious
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The @moderna_tx group has started human trials of a #COVID19 #vaccine booster that is designed to tackle some of the variant forms of #SARSCoV2 . It would be used, if it works, as a 3rd booster. reuters.com/article/us-healt…
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For a decade, US airlines spent 96% of their free cash flow on stock buybacks — until COVID came, then they took billions in government aid. @profgalloway, on @HBO last night, hasn’t forgotten. 🔥 (via @keithedwards) xitter.gq/keithedwards/status/13…
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Fascinating. Before the recent Caliphate controversy, two journalism scholars did a study of the podcast's "performative transparency." The kind of "self-celebratory transparency" that uses omission & artificial revelation to boost journalistic authority. niemanlab.org/2021/03/caliph…
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This interactive tool allows you to map countries onto Solar System Bodies. Here is Australia on the moon. Add your favourite combination to the threat as a comment. Should be good fun. Source: buff.ly/2Opq3U1 – at Melbourne, Victoria
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Learning against all odds - As the #UK announces a 60% cut in its aid to #Yemen, meet Ahmed - the 9 year old, blind from birth, who takes the class when a teacher doesn't show. Our report from #Taiz. Huge thanks to the team @Goktay @clear_red @AhmedBaider1 @SuaadS @wburema
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Did you know that it’s actually possible for you to say, “I don’t know enough about this to have an opinion”
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Returning history to its home. 📕 Read more: wef.ch/2ZO03UZ
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Good summary in this one. Thanks to Peter Deans for the link. wired.co.uk/article/facebook…?
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I implore @JohnsHopkins @SAISHopkins as an alumn - WHY take this down? Put it back. Our First Amendment is something for our institution to be proud of. – at Washington, DC
First Amendment plates coming down on the Newseum.
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Cool surprise this week!! @readersdigest republished the @chicagotribune article about my debut in New York Fashion Week!! I still smile whenever I think of it — the future of fashion is accessible! Thanks again to @ZapposAdaptive & @RunwayOfDreams1... rd.com/article/melissa-blake…
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The Tyranny of Cat Filters on Zoom: Exhibit A. P.S. This is the best video you’ll see today. Hands down. Ht @byDavidGardner
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THREAD: If you had to pick one chart to represent the last hundred years or so of the modern age, what would it be? I think it would have to be this one, tracking the changes in global life expectancy from 1900 to today.
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Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have made a new album together, recorded through Tony's battle with Alzheimer's. This passage broke my heart. aarp.org/entertainment/celeb…
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Wow! New research reconstructs a billion (!) years worth of plate tectonics. Mouth watering research. Source: buff.ly/3ah9jpA
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a normal person explains what’s happening on the stock market:
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collaboration with @MadelineHorwat1 (with an assist from @BenevolentSpung) #PBF20
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Buster Keaton’s stunts were another level!
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Just had to report and block several trolls on Twitter. Never a dull moment in my life, y’all... 👏🏻🤔
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