Link. Not a surprise. In general civilization relies on 20-30% of humanity. The rest are in our care.
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US murder rates still rising.
Link. Maybe less rapid increase. Higher percentage guns.
Cystatin C instead of race based Creatinine based renal activity algorithms.
Link. Will likely give same answer at higher cost but still worth doing.
“99 additional votes for President Biden and 261 fewer votes for Mr. Trump”
Link. So there was bias?
“Dr. Ardelean and his colleagues have proposed that people traveled inland more than 32,000 years ago, before Ice Age glaciers reached their maximum extent.”
Link. Do I hear a 55? Yes to the woman in ref. Do I hear 60? Going once …
“Shafer and his fellow Republicans approved a fake second slate of pro-Trump electors to be sent to Washington, on the grounds that Trump had really carried Georgia and that Biden’s victory was based on fraud.”
Link. America is not that keen on democracy.
“when riding around on these ebikes I felt the same way I did when I saw my first iPhone: this is the future.”
Link. My 5 bikes are power-free, but one day…
“It looks now, based on aurora and sparse magnetometer measurements, that an event in 1872 was probably larger than the Carrington Event,”
Link. Preppers not necessarily wrong.
High quality child care is very too expensive for most parents.
Link. Reduce quality vs subsidize vs parent stops work.
“Unlike Android phones that are chasing big megapixel counts and then “pixel binning” to achieve low light performance, Apple is sticking with 12 megapixels”
Link. Lose out on digital zoom when good lighting.
“If that sounds like a ridiculously unrealistic description of how the economy works, well, that’s because it is.”
Link. Big diss of Mankiw. Also of Nobel committee.
“TBXT mutation doesn’t just shorten tails but also sometimes causes spinal cord defects. And yet, somehow, losing a tail proved a major evolutionary advantage.”
Link. Great mystery.
“Several experts have called on Biden to issue an executive order reclassifying rapid tests as a public health tool rather than a medical device.”
Link. Do it now. Damnit.
“The U.S. death rate over the past two weeks … is … more than seven times as high as Canada’s”
Link. The Murdoch Murders.
“After doing some digging your security is at no risk. Pegasus does not affect macOS Mojave.”
Link. Would explain lack of Apple concern given magnitude of the Messages.app bug. If true good news for Aperture users.
“Given how rarely children become severely ill, the trial was not big enough to draw meaningful conclusions about the vaccine’s ability to prevent Covid or hospitalization”
Link.
macOS installer disks: “Flash disks make excellent bootable Installer disks”
Link. Apple being atypically helpful.
“Mr. Strang seems to have discovered that one way to handle being publicly wrong is to change the subject and to pray readers stick around.”
Link. This works a lot better than we once thought.
“Each year in the United States, RSV leads to on average approximately 58,000 hospitalizations1 with 100-500 deaths among children younger than 5 years old”
Link. How does COVID compare for children 12 and under? (RSV mortality mostly <5yo).
“Roughly 2 percent of school-based close contacts ultimately tested positive for the virus, researchers found, which means that schools were keeping 49 uninfected students out of class every time one student tested positive.”
Link. Daily testing on exposed rather than quarantine.
Xanthelasmas (lipid deposits around eyes) can regress with statin treatment.
Link. I wondered if I was imagining it – after a year or so my eyelid plaques seemed much smaller. (I had an amazing LDL drop with low dose every-other-day statin.)
Big Sur and the macOS update problem.
Link. This is nuts. Apple is getting even more abusive.
“Lincoln’s proclamation meant that anti-slavery England would not formally enter the war on the side of the Confederates, dashing their hopes of foreign intervention”
Link. Didn’t know that.
Britain’s worker shortage.
Link. Usual unpersuasive explanations. Maybe we will understand in a year or two.
J.&J. Conundrum “The city of San Francisco also began offering a Moderna or Pfizer booster shot to J.&J. recipients about a month ago.”
Link. We haven’t “cheated” with a Moderna for our J&J guys — mostly because they are low risk. If approved we certainly would.
“Johnson went on to walk without a cane despite never regaining feeling on his right side. He can’t run anymore, which frustrates him, so he has turned to competitive bodybuilding instead.”
Link. Hard ass.
“Suicides were rare in both groups, but were significantly lower in those treated with ECT.”
Link. We aren’t set up to do ECT but it’s probably the best available treatment for suicidality. (Which is related to depression but not the same thing.)
Juul: “Wow, it’s successful. People are using it,’” Erica Halverson, a former Juul marketing manager, said. “… ‘Oh crap, the wrong people are using it.’”
Link. Learn from this.
NC voter ID: “judges stated that they did not find that the Republican lawmakers who approved the law acted out of racial animus, but rather that they wanted to depress Black turnout”
Link. “That made no difference, the judges wrote, because the discriminatory effect is the same, even if done for partisan gain.”
“lived across the hall from him in a rooming house in Galveston, Texas, where Mr. Durst was hiding from the authorities and living as a mute woman”
Link. Wealth did not suit him.
Google’s quantum computer time crystal.
Link. Conventional physics, amazing technology.
Israel’s assassination of Iran’s nuclear leader – Fakhrizadeh.
Link. Timed to beat Biden’s presidency.
“It is incumbent upon us, the voters, to ensure that no military officer ever again faces even the possibility of a choice between obedience to the Constitution and the fate of human civilization itself.”
Link. McConnell’s legacy.
J&J vaccine: nowhere near knowing if needs booster.
Link. Weird. We may need a different approach.
“the same 12MP specification has been in the iPhone camera system for years now.”
Link. Favors light sensitivity and low noise over digital zoom/cropping.
Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election.
Link. Target Black Americans with the intent of harming Black Americans. Russian because they are profoundly racist and mindlessly destructive.
“People who were vaccinated early tended to be older, richer and more educated”
Link. SCREAM it. This is why we do randomized placebo controlled trials. Being smart has huge advantages in everything.
Curing sickle cell disease.
Link. A million now but costs will fall quickly.
Inspiration4 crew members.
Link. “In addition to Jared Isaacman, the mission’s commander, there are three other astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon capsule.”
Synthetic Biology: optimized enzymes.
Link. Ginkgo Bioworks profiled.
China vaccinated: “people who refused to be vaccinated would have that entered into their “personal credit score.” They could be barred from going to work or entering hospitals and train stations.”
Link. Now THAT is a mandate with teeth.
“if mechanical Ultegra is going away, mechanical road shifting is most assuredly doomed.”
Link. I mourn.
Nipah Virus.
Link. For this reason alone we can never again have a GOP president.
RN sues to get spouse Ivermectin. Judge squashes.
Link. “Kentucky Supreme Court “only allows admission of scientific evidence based on sufficient facts or data.”
“CRT as being an analysis of social science through the lens of racial power dynamics — basically, discarding objectivity as a hopeless goal”
Link. If that is CRT I’m against it.
“list of spacecraft found in the Culture novels and short stories by Iain M. Banks.”
Link. I’m rereading Excession and I need this.
Another Way to Do Protein Structure Prediction
Link. Incidentally the most coherent presentation of Searle’s Chinese room argument I’ve seen in 30 years.
“The iPhone 13 Pro camera modules are entirely different from the non-Pro 13 and and 13 Mini, though”
Link. First year I’ve considered a Pro model.
macOS: run an app or tool at startup.
Link. I did not know. Very handy.
Trek’s Mino Link of Doom – beware the lost spacer (Trek Fuel EX mountain bike).
Link. 2021 model anyway. Needs a rethink but if you know about the problem the Fuel is still a fine bike.