How Matthew Fontaine Maury’s charts of trade winds and currents helped to cut the time of voyages around the world from 1850s. humansofdata.atlan.com/2019/08/how-ma… https://t.co/oE8dMFNcDs
“To China, the Arctic is nothing exceptional, just another chess piece they play in the longterm game from Africa to the Arctic” Mike Sfraga cited
RT @said_mitch: @adam_tooze @alaynatreene Some more backstory here theintercept.com/2020/09/24/cha…
Die wirklichen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie stehen den USA noch bevor – Corona – das Virus und die Wirtschaft | ARD Audiothek New podcast … in
In the 2018-19 season, 1.56 million children were involved in child labor working expanding cocoa harvest in Ivory Coast and Ghana. C. 45% of children
America’s public is as polarized on the economy as on so many other issues. But even Republicans now seem to expect a slow recovery. ft.com/content/64ceaf…
The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger. This report in @TheAtlantic on inequalities in exposure to excessive
Fascinated to discover from this autobiography that the great Charles S. Maier did his undergrad thesis with Arno Mayer on Richard von Kühlmann and the
Whereas Trump started 2020 running on a strong economic platform, that net positive has swung negative this year. ft.com/content/64ceaf… https://t.co/ezfieqpbMa
A Sociological Perspective on the Karabakh War: A Conversation with the inimitable Georgi Derluguian youtube.com/watch?v=Wfj8_H… https://t.co/gE277L3xmu
I don’t think the ructions btw the Trump team and the Chamber of Commerce have received the attention they deserve. Surely a significant pointer to
2020 was always going to be a big year for global climate diplomacy: adamtooze.com/2020/01/20/the… But Xi’s 22 September announcement has changed the game. 3 pieces:
I don’t think the ructions btw the Trump team and the Chamber of Commerce have received the attention they deserve. Surely a significant pointer to
2020 was always going to be a big year for global climate diplomacy: adamtooze.com/2020/01/20/the… But Xi’s 22 September announcement has changed the game. 3 pieces:
RT @PP_Rubens: How insanely beautiful can sunlight on a cloud be? This insanely beautiful. The Maas at Dordrecht, 1650, by Aelbert Cuyp, wh…
RT @LSEReviewBooks: 'The crises of the 2010s transformed the EU. The EU moved from a politics of technocratic and depoliticised rule-making…
Thank you for dredging this back up … remarkable set of data this! twitter.com/OberstWKlink/s…
@APercy_LIFE “Shimmering" is another of his phrases that I love.
"reanalysis has been integrated into the infrastructure of climate knowledge. Each round will bring new revisions to the history of climate. Well into the future,
"if you want global data, you have to make them. You do that by inverting the infrastructure, recovering metadata, and using models and algorithms to
@noahsalz Yup. Its an amazing book!
Learned a new word: “inhomogeneities” – breaks in time series data caused by changing modes of measurement, classification etc. H/t Paul Edwards Vast Machine https://t.co/uCMV3yvCx5
RT @Jmhaas: Interesting piece by @mclaren_erc : A brief history of climate targets and technological promises, based on this nature article…
New word: nephanalysis (analysis of cloud types, amounts, water content, etc.) https://t.co/6tudBeHUIl
A facsimile receiver for NASA'ss Automatic Picture Transmission system, circa 1964. Buy one of these APT ground station for c $30,000 and NASA’s satellites would
“Beijing now argues that China was a creator of the order that emerged in 1945, and that the threat to that order comes from US,
RT @AdamPosen: This is an incredible resource of @Trade__Talks episodes – for professors and educators, for writers and reporters, for the…
How US National Meteorological Center improved accuracy of its 36-hour high alt forecast for North America, 1955 – 88. On S 1 scale, a standard
RT @ForeignPolicy: To imagine that China’s strategy is a propagandistic diversion or a concession to Western diplomacy is both to overestim…
Dogon A.D. (1972/1977) Julius Hemphill – alto sax, flute Baikida E.J. Carroll – trumpet Abdul Wadud – cello Philip Wilson – drums Dennis Pohl –
“I am violently anti-Communist, and I was probably a good deal more militaristic than most. . . . My opinions have been violently opposed to
By 1960, the data library at the US National Weather Records Center had 40 m punch-cards on file and was adding 4 m per year
June 1937. "Baltimore, Maryland. For every Social Security account number issued an 'employee master card' is made in the Social Security board records office. These
RT @OptimoPrincipi: 1/5) This man was violently killed in 2nd century Roman London; forensic science and the study of Ancient DNA tells us…
"If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, … “ Keynes. An actual WPA program in New Deal involved creating a climate data
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