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1. Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:05:19 JST Flipboard

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   • The Tyee

   Political polarization is making us sick, according to new research from a team at New York University. @thetyee’s Crawford Kilian writes about how COVID-19 epitomizes this and whether there’s a possibility of repair.

   https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/06/Political-Polarization-Making-Us-Sick/

   #Health #COVID #Polarization #Politics #Canada #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:05:19 JST Flipboard

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     • Texas Observer

     Democrats in Texas were thrashed in last week’s election. It wasn’t supposed to go like this. For @TexasObserver, Gus Bova looks at how it happened, and offers a couple of things to think about.

     https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-lost-decade-2024/

     #Texas #TexasDemocrats #ColinAllred #BetoORourke #BernieSanders #USElection #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:05:19 JST Flipboard

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     • Knowable Magazine

     Humans spend a lot of time moving in crowds. Matthew R. Francis and Maki Naro collaborate on this comic for @KnowableMag, which demonstrates how tools from fluid dynamics can help model crowd behavior and smooth the flow of crowds, potentially making us safer.

     https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/using-physics-to-understand-behavior-of-human-crowds

     #Science #Physics #FluidDynamics #CrowdBehavior #ThinkingFluids #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 09:05:20 JST Flipboard

     • BoltsMag.org

     A little bit of Democrat joy from @bolts as they report on Monique Worrell, the state attorney who was ousted by Ron DeSantis last year, and beat her replacement, Federalist Society member Andrew Bain, to win her job back.

     https://boltsmag.org/tampa-orlando-proscutor-elections-2024/

     #Florida #Voting #USElection #MoniqueWorrell #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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