The following is a stream of tweets I generated during a presentation yesterday by Richard Wilkinson, held at the Department of Communications Building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. These notes are in reverse chronological order so may make better sense if read from the bottom, up.

1. "Employee ownership turns [a business] from a piece of property into a community." Wilkinson stretching 2 unknown terr. but something there.4:09 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Wilkinson: single parenting does NOT correlate with child well being.
2. 3:15 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Interesting: suicide rates do NOT correlate with social inequality. Suicide more prevalent in more equal societies.
3. 3:08 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   "More equal countries are more innovative." this is key to Wilkinson's argument; undercuts the Darwinian counter-argument, pro-inequality.
4. 3:00 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Wilkinson: greater social equality improves the physical and mental health of rich and poor alike; all benefit.
5. 2:51 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Wilkinson: the US has the least social mobility of all rich countries. Tragic, as this is not in keeping with it's history.
6. 2:50 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Wilkinson: growth alone does not address the problem; it's about the scale of differences between us. The psycho-social effects of status.
7. 2:36 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Something that has been known intuitively for so long, now shown by data: "inequality is divisive and socially corrosive." Wilkinson
8. 2:23 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Big crowd. Room rearranged on the fly to accomodate more. 
9. 2:21 PM Jan 9th from Tweetie
   Town Hall turned us away from the Wilkinson/Pickett talk last night; trying again at UW, which appears to be more accomodating.
10. 2:01 PM Jan 9th from foursquare