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The original outline for Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism …. twitter.com/Samantharhill/…

RT @AestheticaMag: Doug Aitken's hypnotic installations examine how digital technology can influence humanity, connection and personal rela…

New real time C02 data show global emissions fell by 8.8 per cent in the first half of the year amid restrictions on movement and

Btw 1990 and 2020 Germany saw an increase in inequality in disposable income roughly 25% greater than in US over same period. Gini’s can surprise

"Alarmed by the yuan’s rapid rise, the PBoC eliminated the capital requirements it had imposed on banks when they sold USD forwards to their clients.”

RT @_david_ho_: In the 1990s, Biosphere 2 reached out to Wally Broecker because they had a mystery: Excessive atm O₂ loss not accompanied b…

RT @LiuzhuLiu: In1980 The Simon–Ehrlich wager between Paul R. Ehrlich @PaulREhrlich and Julian Simon bet on the price trends of metals in 1…

Everything suggests that the @bankofengland has been rather overoptimistic in its forecasts for UK economy. Wonder what implications that will have for labour market forecasts.

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RT @bcqer: Finally, I’ve saved the best for last. 2020: Appears as background image for Twitter profile of Adrian Vermeule, Harvard law pr…

RT @bcqer: Since everyone’s talking about conservative Catholic jurisprudence, I thought I’d pitch in my two cents. Here are the curious a…

Everything suggests that the @bankofengland has been rather overoptimistic in its forecasts for UK economy. Wonder what implications that will have for labour market forecasts.

"The Strange History of Steve Bannon and the Biosphere 2 Experiment Here’s what happened when Trump’s chief strategist was given a mock Earth.” I find

"Because ecological scale is a measure of relative interdependence, most informative scale for study of a given phenomenon is not an a priori decision but

The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach Dream team of authors @thomasjna Willlliams & Zalasiewicz @politybooks The new definitive textbook? https://t.co/gNCKooilDc

Julia Adeney Thomas History and Biology in the Anthropocene: Problems of Scale, Problems of Value, The American Historical Review, 2014, 1587–1607 I dont wholly agree

“Whereas Europe knew only four years of peace during the seventeenth century, and China knew none, Tokugawa Japan knew only four years of war (and

In 2009, U.S. Chamber of Commerce advised EPA that should predictions of global transformation be correct, “populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range

“history is a subset of biology is a subset of chemistry is a subset of physics.” Ian Morris The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development

Big History as Evolutionary Epic, this characterization by Ian Hesketh is fantastic! A new scientific mythology for the age of the anthropocene. "The story of

Banknotes in circulation rose sharply this year in Canada. "Some have suggested that slower retail activity reduced criminals’ ability to launder drug money, increasing cash

As far as small businesses are concerned, the US right now is a 75% economy. A quarter down on January! Alarming data from @OppInsights real

@FukuyamaFrancis Hi @FukuyamaFrancis At what point do we stop talking about this as a “choice” for all Americans, seen as a single political body? Surely

“Soldiers! Do your duty! Straight to the heart but spare the face. Fire!» The command given by Joachim Murat – Napoleon’s great cavalry general and

The shale boom: Btw 2008 and 2014 the top 20 acquisitions in the shale sector came to more than $110bn! @SoberLook equinor.com/en/news/202010… https://t.co/ueLF5aaUbJ

@AlexisLitvine Yup in 2020 recession in US gender IS the story. Male unemp 2020 < than in 2008/9. It is female unemp that exposes drama

US applies massive pressure to China tech sector. What happens? $1.4trn gov stimulus program and 12000, TWELVE THOUSAND firms register as new entrants to chip

Based on oil price expectation of $100/barrel Norwegian Equinor, now leader in renewables, pumped $40bn into US shale between 2007 and 2019 & racked up

The gendered impact of corona shock ran straight through the sectoral distribution of male and female workers. ft.com/content/3c34c7… https://t.co/VCu4D2bRKs

“She-cession”: In US peak male unemployment in May was somewhat below peak 2008-9 levels. For women unemp was FAR higher -> overall unemp significantly above

The 2012-3 shale oil production shock was NOT recognized by top forecasters. E.g. @EIAgov forecasts for onshore oil production forecasts compared to actual production volumes

The overlap btw urban poverty and COVID incidence in Liverpool is pretty striking, at least to the naked eye. @GeorgeWParker @AndyBounds ft.com/content/f7ef00… https://t.co/Qn4vlabPIw

Btw 2015 and 2021 Amazon is looking to almost QUINTUPLE its workforce! From >200k to 1 m @DaveLeeFT ft.com/content/9cd803… https://t.co/zIPgGJou2U

The amount of large-scale “green” hydrogen projects — where the fuel is produced from renewable energy — in the pipeline totals more than 60GW of

Running out of space: btw 2018 and 2021 Amazon will likely DOUBLE its warehouse space. To over 300 m square feet! Adding 100 m square

Contrast btw different ways of holding assets btw US, Jp and European households is remarkable: US holding of cash is less than EU holding of