Jennifer 8. Lee
Head of @plympton. Doc producer of @pictcharacter, @generaltsomovie. Emoji via @unicode/@emojination. @credcoalition. Once @nytimes. [email protected]
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City Crime Stats
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Interactive database of the crime statistics from major cities during COVID from @davidsabrams at citycrimestats.com. Interesting finding is that while *reported* crime generally dropped ~23% from baseline, homicides stayed level (because dead bodies don't get unreported?)
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Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Authorities Over Rule Barring International Students from Online-Only Universities | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday morning against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to University President Lawrence...
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The lawsuits begin, from MIT and Harvard. “The order came down without notice—its cruelty surpassed only by its recklessness” wrote Harvard President Larry Bacow. “We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal.”
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Bubonic plague - Wikipedia
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Bubonic plague has been used in biological warfare for centuries, from catapulting of infected corpses by the Mongol forces into Crimean city of Caffa in the 1343 to the infamous Japanese 731 division dropping fleas into Chinese city Chengde during WW II.
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Black Death - Wikipedia
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Bubonic Plague caused the Black Death which killed estimated 75-200 million people worldwide from 1346-1353, including an estimated 30-60% of Europe’s population. Historians consider it a turning point in the labor market as wages rose.
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Ecology and transmission of plague | CDC
How does plague occur, and how is plague transmitted to humans?
Jennifer 8. Lee
Bubonic originally was a port city phenomenon because came over to US via 🐀 on ships. Then bacteria spread from urban rodents to rural ones, where it hangs out today. Prairie dogs are actually common carriers.
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Plague surveillance | CDC
Information on where plague cases occur in the United States, and how many have occurred in recent years.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Given the fact that there are ~7 cases of bubonic plague a year in the United States (cdc.gov/plague/maps/in…), unclear from context why a single case in China is newsworthy for an article. Is the low level alert by the region? nytimes.com/2020/07/06/wor…
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Bubonic Plague Is Diagnosed in China
An Inner Mongolia city puts control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages.
Jennifer 8. Lee
(Not sure why 🐑 picture didn’t show so posting article again for dramatic effect). From CDC: US still gets 1-17 cases of bubonic plague per year, mostly in West. Last urban plague epidemic in US was in LA from 1924-25.
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Jennifer 8. Lee
Given the fact that there are ~7 cases of bubonic plague a year in the United States (cdc.gov/plague/maps/in…), unclear from context why a single case in China is newsworthy for an article. Is the low level alert by the region? nytimes.com/2020/07/06/wor…
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Simon & Schuster Names Dana Canedy New Publisher
Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the flagship imprint at one of the country’s largest book publishers.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Two of my favorite people joining forces: @DanaCanedy joining Jon Karp at @simonschuster. She'll be publisher of the namesake imprint.
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Abstract Wikipedia/June 2020 announcement - Meta
Jennifer 8. Lee
Wikipedia is creating a language-independent "abstract" Wikipedia, based on underlying structures of Wikidata
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Spot the Adorable Animal Footprints Taking Over NYC Subway - Untapped New York
With increased riders, the MTA has released creative social distancing decals at its stations to ensure that passengers are properly social distancing.
Jennifer 8. Lee
Official MTA on the bizarre hoof prints: “If you were wondering what that is, officially they are cloven hoofs, boar or pig.” I’m not convinced they are 🐗 🐷-like.
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These decals in the subway help riders social distance with a twist
The subway: Can't live with, can't live without it. That pretty much sums up the relationship between New Yorkers and their transit system—which can be, let's j
Jennifer 8. Lee
Ah more info from @TimeOutNewYork on the [email protected] So I get 🐾 (🐶 on 🚇) and even get mini horse 🐴 shoes. But I find the size of the hoof prints really discomforting. How big are these creatures?!
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Oakland's Fortune Cookie Factory supports, educates community with Black Lives Matter solidarity cookies
"We wanted to take action and help this movement, so we developed a fortune cookie specifically for this movement."
Jennifer 8. Lee
I love this. Oakland Fortune cookie factory 🥠🏭 creates Black Lives Matter solidarity cookies. Chocolate with BLM or a raised fist ✊🏾 on outside and anti-racist wisdom on the inside. In process of being translated to Chinese for the community 🥠 ✊🏾
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Historical Painting Is Altered to Show Most Declaration of Independence Signatories Were Enslavers
Documentarian Arlen Parsa took John Trumbull’s famous work, “Declaration of Independence,” and marked the faces of every man that controlled enslaved people with a red dot.
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And an interview with documentarian @arlenparsa about the original inspiration for the dots (out of frustration with gun control in August 2019)
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Unicode Consortium Announces New Additions to Leadership Team
We are pleased to announce the following leadership additions at the Unicode Consortium. “Each of these individuals brings deep expertise in...
Jennifer 8. Lee
News! @jenniferdaniel of Google is the first female chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, replacing @mark_e_davis, the President of Unicode). @nedley of Apple joins as a vice chair. blog.unicode.org/2020/06/unicod… blog.unicode.org/2020/06/unicod…
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Jennifer 8. Lee
News! @jenniferdaniel of Google is the first female chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, replacing @mark_e_davis, the President of Unicode). @nedley of Apple joins as a vice chair. blog.unicode.org/2020/06/unicod… blog.unicode.org/2020/06/unicod…
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Maria Ressa and Seema Yasmin in Conversation: Reporting Barriers During COVID-19
Publishing and promotion in economics: The tyranny of the Top Five
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the ‘Top Five’ economics journals have a strong influence on tenure and promotion decisions, but actual evidence on their influence is sparse. This column uses data
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In many other fields (history, law, literature, political science, medicine), there are many ways to earn stripes for promotion and tenure. But there is a "tyranny of the top 5" in economics, as explained in this piece by Nobel Prize winner James Heckman
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GQ EDITOR RIPPED FOR SLUR
ON the heels of Don Imus, GQ editor Jim Nelson is drawing fire over his letter to readers in the May issue, where he uses the phrase “Asian whores” twice. In discussing the hit DVD R…
Mark Rober's Rube-Goldberg squirrel feeder is the unicorn chaser you need right now
Former Apple and NASA engineer turned YouTube sensation Mark Rober (previously) decided to spend his quarantine birdwatching until his neighbourhood squirrels defeated his supposedly squirrel-proof…
Jennifer 8. Lee
This is 20 minutes of squirrel amazingness by @MarkRober. Do well worth watching the whole thing. 🥜🐿
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Ratatouille (film) - Wikipedia
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My friend noted, would be interesting to see the pandemic from the perspective of these rats — like a horror version of Ratatouille en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouil… or An American Tail (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Americ…)
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