do things at @chiefgood and @inmarinc
New York, USA
Joined December 2007
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Exports have plunged and some industries may never recover from the trade war bloom.bg/332VtkM
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Today in Syria: Russia takes control of main U.S. military facility abandoned earlier this week by American forces on Trump’s orders. This area is south of Kobani and went to Russia under the Putin-Erdogan deal. Russia now also owns the airstrip we built.
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India's 6th largest city has now run out of water.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-indi…
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Amazing animation by @countcarbon showing the demographic transition over the last 150 years! From a world of high fertility and high child mortality to low fertility with few children dying: teapaw.org/countcarbon/status/112…
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CO₂ emissions are ~100 times larger than CH₄ emissions by weight, but CH₄ has a stronger short-term warming effect leading to similar temperature responses in a decade.
Over time, CH₄ falls away while CO₂ persists for ever, more or less...
cicero.oslo.no/en/posts/clim…
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Saturday Night on Broadway at @HamiltonMusical tonight. GO VOTE. (From the genius mind of @kurtmoji)
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Periodic reminder: there is no illegal immigration crisis washingtonpost.com/news/wonk…
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Excellent collaboration between @racqetmagazine and NYT on US Open special section. A telegram Jackie Robinson sent Arthur Ashe in ‘68 after Ashe won Open. nyti.ms/2BMyWQX
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Let's have something nice today.
Let's remember that in 1500 BCE, someone in Iran carved a little hedgehog on wheels to give to a kid.
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#Influencers create their own platform based on their lifestyle. #Brands can choose to place themselves in that influencer’s lifestyle— “but you can’t decouple the media and messaging” — Ali Mirian, @CollectiveBias @sitegeist @ericgoldie @Refinery29
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NYC friends: set a calendar alert right now for Friday 4-6pm in Union Square to buy Girl Scout Cookies from this troop of girls who live in homeless shelters. Their goal is 6,000 boxes...but how about 15,000 boxes? abc7ny.com/3325522/
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Way to go, Julia! Watch 102-year-old Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins set a new 🌎record in the women's 100+ 60m in 24.79 🔥🔥🔥! #USATFmasterstrack – at Maryland, USA
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🚨🚨 World Record Alert! 🚨 🚨
100-year-old Orville Rogers (lane 2) set a new age group record in the men's 60m in 19.13 at USATF Masters Indoor Championships! #USATFmasterstrack – at Maryland, USA
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Brilliant from NASA in 1965. And still true.
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150lb, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
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The majority of the world population is offline. In 2015 (latest data) only 44% of the world population have used the Internet within the previous 3 months.
The history of the internet is still at a very early stage.
ourworldindata.org/grapher/i…
