#Public

Food advertising places products centre stage in our minds, influencing what we eat. During the biggest health crisis in a century, marketeers have been quick to adapt to spotlight their
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This is a really bad take. It's not okay. Cis women co-opting a trans experience - like being a woman with a dick - doesn't validate the wholeness of my
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The US election news has largely overshadowed a seismic moment in global finance: Ant, a fintech company that spun out of Alibaba/Alipay, was scheduled to have the world's largest IPO,
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Entirely predictable (and widely predicted by those pesky experts) that food / agriculture would become a huge issue for the UK in talks with the US - and one which
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A lot of people have requested us to measure the case fatality rate (CFR) and disaggegrate by age group in our #COVID19PH dashboard (http://bit.ly/COVID19PHdashboard)Let me explain in this thread why
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Good Friyay data time!@BernieSanders talks about a revolution. Does he act on it?https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/04/09/bernie-talks-about-a-revolution-does-he-act-on-it/ Throughout the primaries (including 2016) Bernie has successfully bra
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Around an hour away (or less) from the Silicon Valley, there are many communities with limited to no broadband access and a dire lack of affordable, reliable internet connection at
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In 2005, Don Rumsfeld made millions off his holdings in Gilead thanks to a trumped-up bird flu epidemic, for which 60 countries stockpiled Tamiflu. Later studies would show only moderate
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Since this @nytimes article chose to only highlight the work of male scientists working on #COVID19, here are some of the outstanding #WomeninSTEM scientists doing amazing work. ht @jenheemstra @AcademicChatter
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THREAD: Last week, IDPH reported the COVID death of a Cook Co female in her 20s. My research indicates this death is a suicide that occurred in May.At a time
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It's hard to overstate the failure. The plan was to have 50 million smart meters installed *by* 2020 at a cost of £10bn.The scheme began in 2011. To date it
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Next up: Leading without Authority by @davololo #devopsdays #blndevops Leading doesn't need a gift or talent - nor does it needs authority.1) You don't need a formal role.2) If you
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I wish *you* personally understood that we are on the brink of civilizational destruction, and that *you* have to choose a side: collapse, or transformation. There are no more bystanders,
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I find this piece kind of surprising, because there's a lot of good intention in it, but, also a lot of misunderstanding of the political economy of drugs and what
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Senators Klobuchar, Wyden, and Coons currently holding a call with a bipartisan group of secretaries of state about trying to generate support in Congress for more voting funding and reforms
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#NewYork has paid more into the federal tax system that we have received for more than 30 yrs Yet, when we were desperate & dying for supplies to protect our
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