#Explanations

I've been trying to put the rise in cases in the State of MI in context - the 7-day avg hit a low of 150 on 6/13 and has now
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If large % of voters believe conspiracy theories around voter fraud, that's no good and needs to be addressed, even tho I think claims are bonkers. Check the crazed comments
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move from "moderating your communities" to curating and cultivating communities that actually embody your points of unity. treating all sides of the equation as correct and balanced means your ideological
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Wow I hate thishttps://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1348861102923395072 There is an extreme bias in our culture to always believe parents' side of the story while discounting and ignoring their (often adult) children's perspective
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1. Sigh, this idea that #DavidLynch is a troll needs to be interrogated a littlehttps://variety.com/2021/tv/news/david-lynch-trolls-youtube-1234897322 2. Sure, to our media news-cycle saturated eyes it does look like he's trolling, but
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I don't think atheists need to do a thread on why they don't believe in God or religion because it is very simple to understand why they reject belief systems.
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This idea - that elections should translate into policy - is not wrong at all. But political science can help explain why it's not working this way. There are three
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A thread on writing contemporary history and getting older: Iโ€™ve been teaching a lot of contemporary British history this term, encouraging my students to reflect upon the challenges of writing
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Excellent article on Behavioral Finance. h/t @CatanaCapital A very useful topic to be aware of, especially when there's a lot of exuberance in the Markets (like now, in few sectors
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Ok, so now I want to cover this criticism in depth. I want to explain why it falls apart under any scrutiny, why it is poor criticism, and I also
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The other thing I did in Belgium after the colloquium was over was to visit the Royal Museum for Central Africa, built to showcase the spoils of Leopold II's exploits
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It's been a few days since Scottish Gaelic launched on the @duolingo app + website (https://www.duolingo.com ).I've been having evening Gaelic classes since September, so from one student to another, here
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For #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper, I'll be tweeting about the important work of @pqblair and @BobbyWYChung on the job market signaling value of occupational licensing. [1/N]https://drive.google.com/file/d/16PnLshdN0eC95hrH2WX5oVF5hhk0MMV6
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Thread: Two sets of preregistered multisite replications of the same original study can disagree with each other. A puzzling subplot of Many Labs 5 (ML5) that suggests some truth to
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Threading a few thoughts on the apparent gap between Ford's statements and the numbers, why it matters, why it doesn't matter.https://twitter.com/kateheartfield/status/1347320522275635201 First of all, I see a lot of people
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Sure the GOP has held the Presidency for 12 of the past 20 years,despite losing the popular vote in all but 1 election.But they've never managed to keep the Presidency
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