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Refineries and ball gowns. Esso celebrating the triumphs of synthetic chemistry in the 1950s. Another fabulous illu… https://t.co/s9ef2LtmPT

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There is a relationship between education spending and PISA performance but it is not straightforward and high spen… https://t.co/67v8NNoqYk

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If you look really, really, really closely, you can see the Italian economy edging away from deflation. YUP there i… https://t.co/6fCsvZ4YQd

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“Each day Humbles supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” 1962 advertisement by Humble/Esso boas… https://t.co/WVsqXoJqSO

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@warde_paul @AmiDar @TheEconomist Hi this is fascinating. If beef were factory farmed too, presumably this would ge… https://t.co/lDeXLzpq5U

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"In a very real sense, the frightening precision of special operating forces commando type tactics has infected our… https://t.co/95xmvY1ZGz

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Since celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi fled India in 2018 accused of having defrauded a state bank of nearly $2bn, ban… https://t.co/vxxZuUNOcv

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Japan’s public sector pension fund the largest in the world will no longer engage in securities lending of its $733… https://t.co/OAsxtfQHHz

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Like something from another age … https://t.co/mFtgmIVanr

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Several different kinds of landmine protection boots. It's really interesting.I think the last one could easily tri… https://t.co/oRcX4kUPJa

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Life … One Mile at a Time. Gulf Oil’s ad campaign “Life . . . One Mile at a Time” was developed in the mid-2000s F… https://t.co/iY4rTHQa90

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25 June 1943. A Beauty. A Mosquito F Mark II. #WW2 #HISTORY https://t.co/PYq0ZCGv8u

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Package holidays make up nearly 3% of German household consumption & Germany accounts for nearly 1/3 entire euro-z… https://t.co/MqYdPbeZdJ

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Twelve of the world’s 15 most polluted cities are in India. The whole north Indian plain from Lahore in Pakistan to… https://t.co/TrGCqf6URr

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Investment and savings rates in India are falling but they are still at remarkably high levels.… https://t.co/uyErtHQ4G3

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Rumours suggest that the concrete in China's new islands in South China Sea is crumbling and their foundations turn… https://t.co/gecJQHK7io

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America spent nearly $12bn on infrastructure in Iraq following its invasion increasing the road network by 21%. On… https://t.co/nnvSItySX5

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@mr_archenemy @NoLongerBennett "Even long-haul flights now beat cars, official data shows.” is the language in the… https://t.co/e9Gdly8Q58

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Kaombo Norte oil platform lights up the sea some 260km (160 miles) off the coast of Angola. The processing platform… https://t.co/HhbBF4bH2b

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Oil accounts for 95 % of Angola export earnings and 2/3 of government revenue. It squeezes the rest of the economy… https://t.co/h7LZhTQjjY

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Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed Its Capacity to Compete by Joshua Murray & Michael Schwart… https://t.co/Mbey2FCtGT

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During the 1936 strike in Flint Michigan when a corporate PR referred to GM a “big family”, Homer Martin of the UAW… https://t.co/yF0bm8ZcLF

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If you want your song to be a hit in the new world of streaming, you need to get to the catchy chorus as quickly as… https://t.co/QJFgp8RGvo

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Does the growth in subscriptions to the RISC-V foundation signal a possible challenge to the instruction-set archit… https://t.co/DOlz6onYue

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Why the future must belong to fake meat. The carbon, water and land use footprint of existing meat subsitutes are a… https://t.co/YYt7iJHqq5

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Guadalcanal Requiem: One of the highlights of the Nam June Paik show at the Tate https://t.co/CqcERZ0Slh https://t.co/1tCr15EJk3

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For years, LA kept tree growth to a minimum in some neighborhoods because police officers were worried that trees c… https://t.co/GUEtc7Mf6q

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No major economy has a larger gap beween the domestic production of CO2 emissions & consumption through imported pr… https://t.co/LQCKh0I7sz

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Airbus, in a forecast published in 2017, predicted that air traffic will grow at 4.4% pa to 2037 -> 36,600 new pass… https://t.co/HafnQgZTCY

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Each of the Airbus 350 planes sits at the apex of a system of supply chains which fans out across the world, bringi… https://t.co/OEBJTWxi8T

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Coal power becoming 'uninsurable' as firms refuse cover. At least 35 insurers with combined assets of $8.9tn, equi… https://t.co/lcgTrVUnCK

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“Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China” – Jobs built Macs in the US, after he joined in 1998 Tim Cook… https://t.co/5bLuBnTqPc

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As US commerce department floats idea of regulating import of any technology that presents a nat sec threat, US is… https://t.co/6VT7HtkESD

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Hasankeyf, a town of some 3,000 souls in Turkey’s south-east, has cradled one civilisation after another for 12,000… https://t.co/tOg3HcqlKo

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"to bring risks from climate change and the opportunities from the transition to a net zero economy into the heart… https://t.co/KzxU1rnY6c

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These data on the US job market for economics are fascinating. Macro is largest field of jobs but also quite compet… https://t.co/vdqr2mg1mH

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