#Cities

Kmele

kmele

Things are unraveling, the velocity's picked up over the past 8-9 months, but this hardly began in 2016.It isn't a COUP -- not even a FASCIST COUP. Imprecisely tossing ugly

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

The #COVID19 case fatality rates (CFR) - number of deaths as a percentage of confirmed infections - for places affected early on are:Hubei, 6.6% 5.4% 14.3% 10.2% 16.5% 15.2%Contrast

Amy Webb

amywebb

I've been thinking this weekend about the future of what I'm calling Tech Migrants.Tech Migrants are employees of the G-MAFIA (from my book #TheBigNine - Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, IBM

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

1. The president’s secret police were at it again last night.https://stoehr.substack.com/p/you-have-to-see-this 2. Federal agents deployed to Portland—unidentified, unaccountable, and unwanted by local elected and law enforcement offici

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

One other thing—and being in a pandemic where there's less casual social interaction probably makes this worse—is that I've never had less idea what people outside the politico-journo bubble are

Kieron Boyle

KieronJBoyle

Over the past month, in partnership with @urbaninstitute, we’ve hosted a series of discussions on the ways urban health inequalities can be tackled in the aftermath of COVID-19. Each has

Padmaja joshi

PadmajaJoshi

Have all the bahubalis/criminals/relatives fielded as their proxies won? Sadly, all talk about cleaning up politics stays just that, talk #BiharElectionResults2020 (thread) Anant Singh wins from Mokama. Case against him:

Christopher Flavelle

cflav

One interesting point about Biden’s climate team: so far it lacks anybody with a strong background in adaptation policy, despite the rising toll of disasters. (1/x)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/biden-cabinet-mccarthy-granholm

Joalda Morancy

solarrsystem

So it’s time to talk about living on the planet Venus, but in the most unconventional way: cloud cities in its upper atmosphere. I'm going to talk about Venus as

Antiviral Whorelord Brimley trucker hat

dirtytruckerhat

I have to admit I was one of the stupid people who voted for Trump and thought he would actually accomplish something like nationwide CCW reciprocity or the HPA. Almost

Dave Wasserman

Redistrict

Have a hard time believing reports there are only 120k uncounted ballots remaining in Philadelphia. That would put it at 695k, leaving it short of the 707k total votes cast

pariahkite

pariahkite1

What is this take that if you don't know your caste you must be uppercaste or that you have had too much privilege that has transcended caste. You can experience

aure

maureviv

Test positivity indicates how well authorities are managing Its increase precedes case incidence, but doesn't accurately predict the slope, case number, or total peak area aheadEarly indicator to be combined

Sridhar Vembu

svembu

1/ The most important price that determines almost every other price and the cost of living is the price of land. Land prices increase very rapidly with population density.People collaborating

Simon Cooke

SimonMagus

Got round to readng @AntBreach report on zoning for @CentreforCities ...it is interesting but something of a curate's egg. Would have liked to see more depth to international comparators beyond

Kasey Klimes

KaseyKlimes

Most debates about human nature (are we inherently “good” or “evil”, “cooperative” or “competitive”) ignore that humans are largely shaped by their environment. Are we building environments that enable us

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