Peter Tymms

Emeritus Professor at Durham University

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Books & films, November 2023 https://t.co/sZmNL1npXE

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Just published: The First Year at School: An International Perspective | SpringerLink

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I'm not going to tweet any more. Hope to see you somewhere else sometime.
BBC News - Charities' dismay as Twitter disbands safety group
https://t.co/IVvlytsSfO

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Have a look at Vijay's reading and viewing over the last month. https://t.co/PEVUkWPVSV

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This is the 30th anniversary of Cambodia's landmine removal. Over a million landmines and three million explosives have been removed, and 2,531 km2 has been cleared for the construction of homes, schools, farms and roads. Deaths have fallen from 4,320 in 1996 to less than 100.

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Durham rowers with a headlight in the gloom

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Listening to Mala's father taking about education in Pakistan. Inspirational

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Great progress towards full literacy in Latin America over the last 120 years

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If you grow biofuel (wheat, sugar beet etc) it is 50 to 110 times less effective than covering the land with solar panels.
Thanks for this important, policy relevant factoid Michael le Page

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Angola is making steady progress in clearing its minefields. HALO, a British non-profit spearheading the effort, has cleared more than 10 million m2 since the end of the civil war in the 1990s. Much of that effort is being led by all-women teams
From Future Crunch

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The USA is becoming more integrated
https://t.co/doKqBe9Lnw

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Good news from McKinsey - "By 2035, renewables will generate 60% of the world’s electricity. But even these projections might be too low. Three years ago, we... asked, “How much faster can they grow?” The answer is: faster than you think they can."

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@Peston But isn't growth the source of climate change? Don't we want a world of stasis?

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Season 2 of @thewesocietypodcast is now live! we launch w/ two excellent podcasts ft. Prof Lawrence Freedman on why Russia can’t win in Ukraine & Prof @LindaBauld on why a good public health system is important for a strong economy & society. Listen today https://t.co/aUwtoGyNVa

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An interesting set of books and films from two restricted months.
https://t.co/nbKEVkHFtA

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Is it time for the UK to adopt this evidence based economic policy? A universal basic income. https://t.co/zR3XpiDHDa

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We're thrilled to announce that the winner of this year's #BritishAcademyBookPrize is 'When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold' by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes and published by And Other Stories (@andothertweets). Congratulations!

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The brazenness of this regressive funding of schools is quite astonishing.

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Hear this extraordinary old woman talk about poverty and what she has done about it. https://t.co/WwySmWyOr7