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Stunning thread on the dramatic use of color in architecture old and modern. twitter.com/Furmadamadam/s…

More than 79,000 people have disappeared in Mexico, mostly since 2006 = worst crisis of disappeared in Lat Amsince Cold War, when military-backed Govs kidnapped

RT @prospect_clark: Shock therapy: how the virus is jolting Brexitland towards a continental economic philosophy An arresting but forensi…

RT @Furmadamadam: @SXWArchitecture Hoechst AG Technical Administrative Building, Peter Behrens, 1924 Images via Reddit & Pinterest https://…

RT @northumbriana: The golden age of British tailoring. https://t.co/UqtlpD0eWr

RT @gabriel_zucman: The 18 wealthiest Americans now own 1.25% of all US wealth — a share 10 times as large as in 1982 (Source: https://t.c…

RT @DanielaGabor: it's fashionable to bash Putin, but he's a historical consequence of Harvard boys, with Sachs in charge, wrecking Russian…

RT @TomHV: @NVJRobins1 @antonioguterres @UNEP @WHO @CFigueres @GRI_LSE @rkyte365 @AndrewSimms_uk @the_ecologist @tomcarnac @andersen_inger…

"Carbon capture and storage has a long history as what @mclaren_erc of Lancaster University calls a “technology of prevarication”.” From excellent @TheEconomist report on ending

Over last 20 years, China has seen most consistent and significant increase in wealth-share of top 1%. ft.com/content/f7e81f… https://t.co/MgPgeaKAwi

Crushing coal: in 2020 for the first time, the capacity to burn coal for electricity generation will shrink worldwide. Will this be a historic turning

Dirty ships: Bulk carriers, container ships and oil tankers account for majority of shipping CO2 emissions. But LNG carriers rival cruise ships for CO2 emissions

RT @DinaPomeranz: The number of people who die from Covid-19 worldwide per day has never been as high as in recent weeks. Over 10.000 each…

With BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna having made the early running, there is still a lot to "play for" in 2021 both for rival vaccine developers &

RT @mclaren_erc: All too predictable. Not only base the promise on a technology of prevarication, but plan to control that technology to en…

RT @APHClarkson: Cosplay Nationalism twitter.com/Sime0nStylites…

The growth in Amazon’s workforce since 2019 has been extraordinary, doubling to 1.2 million in a single year. @KYWeise nytimes.com/2020/11/27/tec… https://t.co/1O7uxEHsdT

RT @Sime0nStylites: Another way to think about Brexit (this Brexit) is that it’s a grand experiment in conceptual time travel or perhaps ev…

RT @damomac: "History is important, because disputes over history are almost always about the present." irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i…

A pleasure talking to @M_C_Klein as always! twitter.com/M_C_Klein/stat…

After the Crimea boost wore off, United Russia, Putin’s political vehicle, continues to sag in the polls. ft.com/content/54fe36… https://t.co/6rDO6NOtbb

More Americans listen to weekly podcasts than attend church, according to data from Statista ft.com/content/e58516… https://t.co/0tr4OuQk12

In terms of reduction in carbon intensity of electricity generation (gCO2/kwh), the UK led world over last decade with US in #2! Ahead of Germany,

"Only 47 % of Brits could identify that growth of GDP by 1 % meant that the size of the economy had increased by 1

Containers are cool, but pallets move the world. 400 million new wooden shipping pallets are produced in the United States every year, and nearly 2

As the planet gets warmer, heatwaves are having a bigger health impact, particularly threatening the lives of people who are over 65. 296k die on

“You don’t know what you’re going to say. You don’t even know your way to the end of the sentence. You don’t know anything. Then

In an economy of social distancing and a world that needs comfort, the price of purebred dogs is rising faster than bitcoin! Price of Spaniels

Did you know that Dieselgate at VW was all the fault of entrenched trade union power? No? Neither did I! economist.com/business/2020/… https://t.co/qcVwBtWrNA

If Indian economy is in a hole, why is stock market booming? Answer from @TheEconomist "The crisis has allowed the government to push through rule

Annual investment flows in the energy system are gigantic. Wonder how the vaccine/biotech/pharma/health investment flow compares with this? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/0tT1zfaMoY

As Brexit talks each endgame: "Over the past two days negotiators have haggled species by species ….”! ft.com/content/554da4… On more of what is at stake,

China’s Ping An is by far the most tech savvy insurance company in the world and the largest by market cap. economist.com/finance-and-ec… https://t.co/QEWdbpZh6G

@dandrezner Hi @dandrezner think you might be giving too much credit. 60% of republicans start Nov thinking they will be better off 12 months hence.

A redistributive, welfarist agenda of the kind Biden is proposing actually garners substantial support from parts of GOP and overwhelming support from “independents” in the

RT @NationalGallery: Behind the scenes in Conservation: Restoring the Gallery's oldest painting Assistant Conservator Kristina Mandy shows…