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Malinga Fernando
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Personal musings. Econ & Tech & Energy mostly. London and Colombo by way of Geneva.
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Alex Tabarrok
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Disagree. Honking in Mumbai & India is not used primarily to indicate anger but to signal. Hence truck signs, “Horn Please.” The cause is lack of lane control—4 cars, 2 tuk-tuks, and a motorcycle can occupy two lanes, three if you count one lane going in the other direction. pic.twitter.com/57ukmQSxUv
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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe
@KHayhoe
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Lest you think this sounds too incredible to be true, this is NOT the first or only study connecting increases in both interpersonal as well as societal violence to higher temperatures. For example: emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/research/quant… twitter.com/rmiparks/statu…
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Leonardo Carella
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This mechanism explains perfectly why policy and politics seem to have decoupled so neatly: when problems are solved, people are more likely to see more of them. One of the most insightful things I've read in a long time, even on a night like this. danielgilbert.com/LEVARI2018COMP… pic.twitter.com/i0tuGdDGOP
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sameer chishty
@sameerchishty
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Never underestimate what one person can make happen. twitter.com/auderdy/status…
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Malinga Fernando
@mafernando
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From politics to the plate: how pad Thai was invented by government scmp.com/lifestyle/food… via @scmpnews
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Chris Nelder
@chrisnelder
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6. sij |
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Remember this the next time you hear somebody assert that #energytransition is always a slow, protracted affair, requiring many decades. This one is happening at lightning speed. twitter.com/iain_staffell/…
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Adam Tooze
@adam_tooze
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At their peak in 1980 illegal drugs accounted for 5 % of total personal consumption expenditure in US. An astonishing figure corroborated by contemporary estimates that cocaine sales peaked at $35bn in 1980. Rachel Soloveichik @BEA_News
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Dan Wang
@danwwang
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Dumplings stopped where the Mongols stopped: twitter.com/ykomska/status…
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Pseudoerasmus
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The paper discussed above is finally out and it's open access. Some comments from me. academic.oup.com/past/advance-a… pic.twitter.com/nvHU6Yr7AE
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Erik Brynjolfsson
@erikbryn
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"the resulting epidemic of subclinical lead poisoning could have reduced the number of children with truly superior intelligence (IQ scores > 130 points) by more than 50% and, concurrently, caused a more than 50% increase in the number of children with IQ scores < 70"
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Erik Brynjolfsson
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"In the USA, millions of children were exposed to excessive concentrations of lead as the result of the widespread use of leaded gasoline from the 1920s until about 1980."
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David Roberts
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We're not going to limit temp to 1.5C. The weird social pressure to continue pretending we can, or might, is weird to me. The situation is tragic. The people & institutions responsible deserve all the anger in the world. But it is what it is. twitter.com/CarbonBrief/st…
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Noah Smith 🐇
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Jefferson really was the ultimate hypocrite, wasn't he?
But perhaps hypocrisy is often necessary for the advancement of civilization... twitter.com/travton/status…
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Nabeel Qureshi
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New study suggests that blue light is actually fine & red light (a la Fl.ux, “night mode” etc) may be worse
manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/… pic.twitter.com/4WJ4HCeimg
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James Beacham
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A couple of months ago, when I asked Pinker in person why he continues to elevate the work of discredited bigots, offering, for example, that Harpending once said, "I’ve never seen anyone with a hobby in Africa" (from this @AngelaDSaini article nature.com/articles/d4158… )...
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James Beacham
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Note that the work of white supremacist Henry Harpending, cited by that embarrassing Bret Stephens NYT column (now w/a bizarre, disingenuous editors note added) is a long-time favorite of Steven Pinker, who peddles discredited pseudoscience all the time. newrepublic.com/article/77727/… pic.twitter.com/AVdRSte2NK
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Devon
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How Buildings Learn amzn.to/2QpH11U
A book thread 📚👇 (well past due) pic.twitter.com/orVVaVSVqj
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Mark Ledwich
@mark_ledwich
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1. I worked with Anna Zaitsev (Berkely postdoc) to study YouTube recommendation radicalization. We painstakingly collected and grouped channels (768) and recommendations (23M) and found that the algo has a deradicalizing influence.
Pre-print:
arxiv.org/abs/1912.11211
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Zoltán Sylvester
@zzsylvester
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35 years of change on the Mamoré River, Bolivia, as seen in @NASA_Landsat images pic.twitter.com/Vt6TEdbvdt
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Malinga Fernando
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Rebuilding Cities, With Culture at the Core citylab.com/environment/20…
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