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ˈRi·bo·some, n. | life's universal reader, translator, linker

by @sachwry

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2008, Google used search to predict flu
https://t.co/QF8TiZE5s3
Microsoft just raised the game to cancer!
https://t.co/3acVdGqA9u

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Hope the cheetahs thrive in India, and thank you Namibia!

You wonder, is that how governors trafficking Venezuelan immigrants across the USA see them? Except, to mislead them, you'd have to acknowledge at least a part of their humanity. #relocation #displacement #immigration

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Something very arresting about Climate Change baring relics of the past... Almost chiding us to take a serious look back and introspect.

War shipwrecks in Europe:
https://t.co/IarlVFNgv6

Dinosaur fossils in Texas:
https://t.co/OunjDAHUKn

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In the 21st century, humans are still 'reinventing the wheel'... And of course we should!
#Engineering #automotive #progress #innovation #technology #Optimism #Cars

Germany:
https://t.co/Y5FdOT4sr1

Turkey:
https://t.co/NYsWc8Rr5h

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Schoolboys protest attire... (for very different reasons, and in very different ways)

Skirts in Devon:
https://t.co/kpbe0zOpqV

Scarves in Karnataka:
https://t.co/HH3E1dBLWZ

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ANNOUNCING: a free newsletter, a critique of elite journalism from the perspective of the Global South

Please do read and share!

https://t.co/Vl0AZt2jnB

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Why does the abuela in Encanto, who, like her entire family, is a Colombian living in Colombia, have a pronounced accent unlike that same family?

The Sharmas in Bridgerton speak Marathi and use familial terms in Bangla, Tamil and Hindi. How cosmopolitan of them... in 1813!

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Drug use and motherhood when you're rich
https://t.co/4EqNvQ0CmO

And evidence that applies to both rich and poor moms:
https://t.co/cqLgXvXysl

#marijuana #pregnancy #childbirth #parenting

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Post-pandemic 'chip' shortage hit the Japanese auto industry
https://t.co/Y0sRnYhWms

But also diners!
https://t.co/Mb3YQom2tn

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Announced December 2021:

The extant animal with the most legs, naturally a millipede, but this time true to its name.
https://t.co/imYDAGYQ2I

And, the largest insect that ever lived, at 2.7m and 50Kg, also a millepede. Extinct.
https://t.co/tDW1lX9tmx

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Women, games, jobs.

In UK, one woman doesn't get hired coz she picked the wrong name 11 years ago.
https://t.co/nM8ittvBAh

In India, another got fired coz she supported the wrong team
https://t.co/fs80qnoBEa

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Human economies don't just lead to extinction. We're changing genomes.

New evidence for the classical example, African elephants:
https://t.co/y7NT3gOHV7

With many other species, we shrink not just populations, but the animals themselves!
https://t.co/9fYoo0DpaY

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Same quote from Lachlan Murdoch @FoxNews & editors @nytimes same week: "if both sides are criticizing us, we're doing it right"

What would they say if you were doing it wrong?

https://t.co/He1NDR9V9t by @BrettABachman
https://t.co/bLtdg2o124 by @aymanndotcom #journalism #ethics

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Antarctica has a new local accent...
https://t.co/PxYIhYMtCS

AND, a whole new ocean!
https://t.co/87RbNy3srz

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Two women on their way to deliver babies. Their antipodal circumstances say something about how different life can be in...

New Zealand:
https://t.co/b7N880Au4W

vs the United States:
https://t.co/4HL6cgHtfz

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'Umbrella' species... 'Keystone' species... New research casts doubts on the conservation paradigms underlying those terms still taught widely: #biodiversity #China #SouthAfrica

Pandas:
https://t.co/AqqUVTDG8K

Lions:
https://t.co/Gb0gY9q5Dg

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Nasal swabs were so irksome, countries tried to find better diagnostic ways. #pandemiclife

The Dutch took the chance to scream their 2020 angst out...
https://t.co/ZDYzcOwXnX

And the Chinese, well...
https://t.co/ym4Ck6GJUB

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Or rather, known to Europe. The Continent is all over the table! Sample:

Europium, Eu, named for the continent itself,

Germanium, Ge, named for a country on that continent

Hassium, Hs, named for a state in that country

Darmstadtium, Ds, named for a city in that state!

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How long has your country been known to the wider world? The periodic table offers clues:

They either named a metal after your country... #Cyprus 🇨🇾 #copper
Or named your country after a metal! #Argentina 🇦🇷 #silver

Either way, they make excellent conductors!

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You hear 'cartel' and you think Joaquín Guzmán and Pablo Escobar. But for the primary meaning of the word, think Google and Facebook. #techGiants

In advertising, 2020:
https://t.co/GBj7MZp8By

In employee salaries, 2015:
https://t.co/FDY4hUegIz

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Far longer than we thought until recently, women have been warriors, hunters...
https://t.co/PS57kKlDpb

Traders, bankers, investors, and businesspeople
https://t.co/GSfZqo8SG7

#womeninleadership #womeninbusiness

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Some 300 years after France...
https://t.co/g8BLL3MEZ3
North Korea is matching its zeal in promoting potatoes
https://t.co/ucNKsy3w8k