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RT @TrimontiumTrust: This #Roman mosaic from c2nd century AD shows fisherman at work. It comes from the Villa of the Nile Mosaic, now in #L…

RT @CDCHistory: Robby the Robot gambling at the Sands Hotel, May 20, 1956 https://t.co/8UhHdZr5OL

RT @paulkrugman: I did a 15 student seminar by Zoom and thought it had real advantages nytimes.com/2021/02/15/opi…

World’s first anti-”aircraft” gun, horse-drawn Krupp designed anti-balloon gun, 1870 https://t.co/G8d5Y05xBJ

Prussian Uhlan Cavalry chasing French balloons 1870. https://t.co/fiyb9xr5w6

Gustave Doré L’Énigme, 1871 Extraordinary image inspired by Prussian bombardment of Paris in Franco-Prussian war. https://t.co/SD1zNcdq88

In 1978 Toyota turned down a chance to be in on ground floor of China boom. Since 1990s it has been playing catch up. In 2018 it was favored with appearance by PM Li -> huge Toyota push into EV joint ventures in China in last 3 years. ft.com/content/d1e2f8… https://t.co/UR5My0GS5d

History versus Expectations – Early 1990s @paulkrugman catnip! Multiple equilibria, path dependency, cumulative causation v. self-fulfilling expectations -> under which conditions does one prevail rather than the other? Whats not to like! isid.ac.in/~tridip/Teachi… https://t.co/QaQATQ2nJT

“Riot wood” – 2020 was a year of plywood in much of urban America. Now local activists and artists are finding creative ways to “Save the Boards” and repurpose the material. @linpoonsays bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/9cuyWZOtIr

China’s economy overtook that of Japan in 2010. It is now three times larger. A spectacular shift in the balance very well analyzed by @mit_obe in this excellent long read. ft.com/content/d1e2f8… https://t.co/cypKFoFAlP

“Today we have the possibility or rather the responsibility to start a new reconstruction, as governments did after World War II,” “Without Italy there would be no Europe" – Draghi channeling De Gasperi and Einaudi? bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/A0652eODql

I enjoyed being on a panel chaired by urban sociologist Sharon Zukin yesterday. This an interesting paper on how tech became urban. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… https://t.co/gU0msxFEXv

PBoC issued digital currency will deal a blow to Alipay and WeChat. “It is likely that the government will use administrative power to promote the use of digital renminbi to undermine the monopoly on consumer data held by the technology firms.” ft.com/content/751180… https://t.co/2p5VAeNNQ2

RT @alexandreafonso: I really like the story of Jean Monnet's Soviet wedding. Monnet's Italian wife-to-be was married and couldn't get a di…

RT @alemannoEU: “There is no sovereignty in solitude. There is only the deception of what we are, in the oblivion of what we have been an…

Campaign against AIDS drove surged in Global Health Assistance Funding in early 2000s. healthdata.org/sites/default/… https://t.co/Xtlnga3I1S

RT @DanielaGabor: oh look, someone is again conflating 'excess savings' with the portfolio glut, nice conceptual trick to call for sanction…

AP Moller-Maersk will have the first carbon-neutral container vessel on the water by 2023, seven years ahead of schedule. A small, 2000 20-ft container capacity, powered by methanol. Important first step in hard to crack industry. ft.com/content/79bc2e… https://t.co/FyBsL2yGK1

RT @VMRConstancio: A potential problem is looming, and the media are pursuing a new story that builds on the following chain of reasoning:…

RT @zeithistoriker: we are all the michigan lighthouse https://t.co/X1h52EsRa1

UK (sic) and China lead the world in digital payments. Potentially a Chinese digital central bank currency would enable the PBoC to track all transactions at the individual level in real time @JKynge Sun Yu ft.com/content/751180… https://t.co/TY7PTXYEtf

RT @IBMT_SCW: Hywel Francis, IBMT Patron, historian and former Labour MP for Aberavon, died on 14 February, aged 74. He was author of ‘Min…

RT @PortalMilitrge1: Portal Revisited: Der Zugang zu den ist Archiven noch immer beschränkt, aber es gibt Alternativen! Christian Westerhof…

Decoupling denied: Japan Inc lays its bets on China Trade rift between Beijing and Washington creates havoc and opportunity for Asia’s economic giants This long read by @mit_obe of @NikkeiAsia123 is excellent. ft.com/content/d1e2f8… https://t.co/h9RevHyeDz

Buoyed by China’s rapid recovery, Rio has returned $9bn to shareholders for its most recent financial year, the biggest payout in its 148-year history. ft.com/content/c6eab9… https://t.co/rshaZ6qZp2

"Although no official launch date has been announced, China is intent on becoming the first large economy to introduce a digital currency, showcasing its position as the global leader in payments technology to the world at next year’s Winter Olympics." ft.com/content/751180… https://t.co/Lk0YCebfw3

Fifteen centuries after China invented banknotes – flying money – the PBoC is leading charge into central bank digital currencies. Important piece this by @JKynge & Sun Yu ft.com/content/751180… https://t.co/AcSNwkktX1

RT @BBGAfrica: Namibia’s central bank keeps its benchmark interest rate at a record low, striking a balance between supporting the economy…

This is interesting! twitter.com/crusaderprojec…

"Kamikaze Loggias" and "epidemics of vernacular architecture" modifying cold war era construction … so many tempting metaphors here. twitter.com/UrbanFoxxxx/st…

On technological change and built-in labour-saving bias. This conversation btw @MESandbu and @rodrikdani is really interesting. ft.com/content/bf7601… https://t.co/HdHtNl995N

RT @JChaisse: 🥂 Delighted to announce the release of the book “Wine Law & Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market” which brings t…

The average daily rate for a New York City hotel room in October 2020 was $135, compared with $336 a year earlier. Of City’s 700 hotels, 200 are closed and 60 are being used to house homeless. @nycibo ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/har… https://t.co/QOMWCLvLx3

It will be a privilege to be part of this event this evening. twitter.com/nycibo/status/…

At the end of 2019, nearly 466,000 people worked NYC leisure and hospitality industry, which includes restaurants bars, and other entertainment. The estimates that by the end of 2020 nearly 217,000 of those jobs were lost. @nycibo ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/har… https://t.co/cZQRPiaEv7

RT @sciam: The Game of Life, invented by mathematician John Conway, inspired the fields of chaos and complexity, which assume that just as…