You may be reading about how only 2 women were awarded Nobel prizes this year. Not true.

Actually, Olga Tokarczuk received the 2018 award for literature. And Duflo's economics prize is not formally a Nobel prize.

The total number of female Nobel prize winners in 2019 is zero.

Here's why the economics prize is not technically a Nobel Prize: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Mem…

Those in the know will of course remember that the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature was announced this year since it was suspended last year due to a sexual assault scandal.

theguardian.com/books/2019/oct…

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Analogy I heard on Greta Thunberg's success the other week: she is like the child who pointed out that the emperor has no clothes. This gives others the courage to also speak up and point out the same.

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For decades democratic countries worked on putting structures in place to help news media scrutinize power, to discourage false reporting and deter misleading information. Social media circumvented the structures and became the power itself. Lies and threats became currency.

— History books of the future 🧐

The implication being that we are currently writing the second paragraph of that chapter...

”What Facebook fails to acknowledge is that it isn’t neutral. It is favoring candidates who smear their opponents [...]”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

by @ellgood and @KarenKornbluh

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Wow. The Missing Cryptoqueen does not disappoint. Shivers already in episode 2. Mindblowing and important podcast series (8 episodes). Schools should have students listen to this. Everyone should listen to this. Impressive work by @JamieJBartlett.

podbean.com/ei/dir-mv42z-6…

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What happens when we confuse price with value? We undervalue care. We pollute more. The financial sector is allowed to brag about how productive it is while just moving around existing value, created by others.

Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking value

overcast.fm/+lWdXkRf4

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I’m off to #inuseaward to mingle with designers in Stockholm and see cool accessible and sustainable apps. Maybe I’ll see you there?

Who am I kidding, nobody uses Twitter for networking anymore. 😂

Hashtag #oldgeezer.

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