Link. It’s worthless, Trump-level nuttiness from Xi. “initial guidance from the WHO warned against herbal remedies for the coronavirus, but that language has since disappeared.”
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Python digestion and metabolism is extreme.
Link. Review of snake science.
Facebook won’t fix fake news — it needs the bot accounts
Link. It could kill them if it wanted to.
Making Sense of Cellular Data Upgrades for the Coronavirus Pandemic
Link. Thank you
Apps That Can’t Be Transferred
Link. Hard data lock.
[toread] “You try a new app and it doesn’t support Undo, you throw it out”
Link. Another: can an associated account be deleted?
Coronavirus Consensus
Link. Journalist boredom will be the death of us.
Facebook hosts groups calling for violence against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Is the Target of Dozens of Threats on Private Facebook Groups Ahead of Armed Rally at State Capital This Week
Link. Zuck is a Trumpista.
App.net archive now available
Link. I was there.
Gym reopenings: a survey.
Link. I’m surprised they don’t mention moving some things outdoors.
“want to muddy the rhetorical water and play as much “Debate: The Gathering” as possible because the destruction of clarity and logic in politics serves their purpose”
Link. Minor point in Scalzi essay but this is underappreciated.
“there are going to be a lot of AirPods in landfills”
Link. The two year lifespan bugs me.
“The government leaders who failed to safeguard the nation are CDC Director Redfield; FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn; Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar; and of course, President Trump.”
Link. “Redfield is a right-wing darling with a checkered scientific past“
“The idea that mental illness can be classified into distinct, discrete categories such as ‘anxiety’ or ‘psychosis’ has been disproved to a large extent. Instead, disorders shade into each other, and there are no hard dividing lines”
Link. I’ve watched this understanding slowly develop over 20 years.
Neanderthal genome was up to 6% human
Link. From contemporary Africans
Aerosol emission and superemission during human speech increase with voice loudness (Feb 2019)
Link. When does COVID spread by droplet vs. by aerosol? “speaking … releases about 2–10 times as many total particles as a single cough …percentage of airborne droplet nuclei generated by singing is 6 times more than that emitted during normal talking and approximately equivalent to that released by coughing”
iOS Low Data Mode – it’s weird.
Link. On my iPhone (13.4.1) the UI is weird. It’s a mystery setting hidden in Cellular Data Options and it says “reduce WiFi and cellular” but in fact there is a different setting for WiFi that’s even more obscure.
Coronavirus deaths: The stark differences in countries’ case fatality rates.
Link. Japan is the outlier, especially compared to South Korea. April 2020.
Extracting Energy From Gravitational Waves.
Link. Love Feynman thought experiment, suspect he wasn’t only one.
“If COVID-19 were an airborne infection, physical distancing rules would not be effective and we would see large and widespread outbreaks in places adhering to droplet prevention, including hospitals. We have not.”
Link. Call center and choir outbreaks vs hospitals no-outbreak. Research needed.
WH COVID moment: “Neither memo mentioned anything about wearing facemasks.”
Link. Darwin award contenders.
SK: 68-page “guidebook for distancing in daily life.”
Link. Please translate to English for Science States of America.
How to check the integrity of files in a Time Machine backup: “tmutil verifychecksums path”
Link. He found two errors. Not reassuring.
Lord of the Flies – the true story.
Link. Suspect they had some serious cultural survival skills. Also, make the movie.
28yo woman: “Blackhorse has been one of the Navajo Nation’s most high-profile losses since the coronavirus took hold in March”
Link. Diabetes?
“All these infection events were indoors, with people closely-spaced, with lots of talking, singing, or yelling”
Link. Not a scientific paper, some of the virus exhalation estimates are speculative, but still persuasive. Would love to see some expert review.
“White House officials have moved to seize control of a little-known board that administers the $557 billion federal retirement program for most active and retired federal employees and military members”
Link. Winning votes.
Tracking the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic | Datagraver
Link. Another tracker, some novel useful views.
“data about burials in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, suggest that the official covid-19 figures in March might have captured only 5% of the true toll”
Link. Economist mortality tracker.
“Virologist Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, fell ill with COVID-19 in mid-March.”
Link.
An Adoption, a Pandemic and an Evacuation
Link. A sweet story. I’m parent by adoption so teared some.
“Research released Wednesday shows a rise in food insecurity without modern precedent. Nearly a fifth of young children are not getting enough to eat”
Link. MAGA.
Gas Leak in India at LG Factory Kills 7 and Sickens Hundreds
Link. “Bhopal State, considered the world’s worst industrial accident. That leak, at a Union Carbide pesticide plant, left nearly 4,000 dead and another 500,000 injured.”
NYC seeded COVID across America.
Link. Fiunder effect may explain strain dominance.
“if you had the technological ability, as measured by (say) quantum circuit complexity, to prove that a cat was in a coherent superposition of the alive and dead states, then you’d necessarily also have the technological ability to bring a dead cat ba
Link.
Apple launches ‘Apple Books for Authors’ website as guided resource to publication.
Link. Is Apple going to do more with eBooks?
Sates reopening after coronavirus shutdown.
Link. “None have met the federal government’s core recommendation of a two-week decline in reported cases.”
Home nasasl swab: “studies were conducted by UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s major insurers, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”
Link. Teachers swab 3/week.
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Link. Lancet.
Mutations in the Coronavirus Spike Protein
Link. Fun science.
Progress in stopping malaria, managing plastic, feeding people
Link. Science!
“velociraptors are intelligent, shifty creatures that are not going to be contained any time soon, so we might as well just start getting used to them killing a few people every now and then”
Link. I needed this
“Brain-like tissue infected with HSV-1 became riddled with amyloid plaque”
Link. We got nothin. So yeah.
Darkest Of Days At DOJ.
Link. If you don’t vote Biden you vote this.
Two port MacBook Pro is not good choice.
Link. Get Air or 4 port.
ScanSnap Replacement: “ExactScan Pro provides a software alternative that will be good enough to move forward with”
Link. Rough at the edges.
Men and women share the three most common heart-attack symptoms
Link. The differences have been exaggerated.
“In all there were just over 8,000 cases of SARS-CoV-1, and about 700 deaths”
Link. Must read.
Why Coronavirus Reporting Data Is So Bad.
Link. Excellent description. This is in my scope of work. We track deaths because they have to be declared.
That Time Wallace Stevens Punched Ernest Hemingway.
Link. Stephens drank more than I suspected.