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Flying Snakes Glide aero writhe.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Complex and elegant.

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CA: “This is faster and worse than I expected. You have to have a ton of respect for this thing. It is nasty and it just lurks and waits to stomp on you if you let your guard down for a second.”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Not exponential and then it is.

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“periods when the virus seemed to percolate until something — perhaps a superspreader event — triggered an exponential rise in infections”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Weirdness.

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“dispersion parameter. It is a measure of how much variation there is from person to person in transmitting a pathogen.”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Epi 101.

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Create no-track YouTube Links.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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“Microsoft vs AWS is as real a deathmatch as Facebook vs Google or Google vs Apple.”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Google’s cloud fail is amazing

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“Far from being biased against Republicans in the U.S. and right-wing nationalists and authoritarians around the globe, Facebook has been biased for them.”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Fundamental flaw is both-sides equivalent assumption. Republicans are more evil.

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Subscription services everywhere.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The poison pill is the lock-in.

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Gilead to Charge $3,120 Per Patient for Remdesivir therapy.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. This is very reasonable.

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“if you’re thinking of getting a macOS device it might be smart to get it now”

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Yes.

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Speculations on how Indian soldiers died in border fight with China.

Posted on June 30, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Plausible.

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“Harriet Tubman was scheduled to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill … the plan was canceled because it made President Trump mad.”

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No comment.

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Woodrow Wilson Was Even Worse Than You Think.

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. His father … “made his name through the publication of his popular sermon arguing for the Biblical sanction of slavery.”

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America: “it will be one of the most spectacular instances of civilizational decline in world history. Every mind in the country should be bent towards the task of reversing the decline and restoring national competence.”

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He forgot political and governmental corruption.

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CDC says U.S. has ‘way too much virus’ to control pandemic as cases surge across country

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Still nothing on making better masks.

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NYT Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I missed this one.

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The making of Mao’s famine.

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. His leadership style feels familiar.

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“after she reached out to a local television station, which devoted a segment to her charges, her health plan began investigating the bill”

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Price concealment in healthcare is a metric of how broken our society is. Other metrics include gun ownership, prison labor, gov-industrial employment. A reform government would track them all.

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Zuckerburg surrenders to advertisers

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. He’s lying of course, but kudos to the advertisers who withdrew.

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A very bullish take on EV adoption

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No. Won’t be this fast.

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Milwaukee home burned by confused mob.

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. America is a violent place; our policing problems have reasons.

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App Makes Mass Transit Accessible to People with Cognitive Disabilities

Posted on June 29, 2020 by jgordon

Link. We need Apple to treat cognitive disability like visual disability.

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Racial Variation in ACE: Clinical Trial ended 2001.

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I can’t tell if it was published. Black/white COVID mortality ratio seems higher than any other Black/white health outcome ratio.

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China is holding Canadians hostage to free a powerful criminal held by Canada.

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. The new hegemon is unsurprisingly brutal. Canada should disregard US however, under Trump it means nothing.

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“the common ancestor of all the dinosaurs must have laid soft eggs”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Like turtles, not birds.

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Yellowstone supervolcano news is not very 2020.

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Evidence of decreased risk?

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“At least 113 people have been shot since May 25, eight fatally, according to Minneapolis police, with hundreds of reports of gunfire across the city, including several shootings in broad daylight”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Minneapolis has a violence problem.

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Nader confession: “bringing a child into the country for sexual purposes in 2000.”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Weirdly sympathetic coverage.

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University of Trento (Italy) Scientific Programming Lab — Python intro and beyond.

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Based on the environments they recommend this is a contender for best and most current intro to science-oriented Python anywhere. The English version would benefit from editing by a native speaker, no Python knowledge needed.

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Mars drone: “The body of Ingenuity is about the size of a softball with four spindly legs sticking out. Two sets of blades, each about 4 feet from tip to tip, spin in opposite directions”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link.

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Carbon Copy Cloner was quietly excluding 1Password stores from backup.

Posted on June 28, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I don’t use Agile’s central sync service, so I had not backups. Bombich blew this one.

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“If the toilet has a lid, close it before you flush so it traps the plume. Think of the lid as a mask for the toilet.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. No more appreciating the show.

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Dexamethasone already less wonderful.

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. To the surprise of no physician anywhere.

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“In some cities, as vehicle traffic and tailpipe pollution declined, levels of one major smog-causing pollutant, ozone, actually shot up.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Predicted but never seen. It’s chemistry.

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“it appeared that every liver cell was edited. After gene editing, the monkeys’ LDL levels dropped by 59 percent within two weeks.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Gene editing to eliminate heart disease.

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“neuroinvasive capacity of SARS-CoV2, and an unexpected consequence of direct infection of neurons by SARS-CoV2”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. What does this thing do in bats?

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“President Trump’s campaign directed the removal of thousands of “Do Not Sit Here, Please!” stickers from seats in the arena that were intended to establish social distance between rallygoers”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Baal wants sacrifice.

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The history of oral polio as universal vaccine

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Worthy of study.

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“His father was a blacksmith, his mother a nurse.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Theoretical physicists come from everywhere. Newton set a precedent.

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“Black people with COVID-19 in the 25-34 age group had a mortality rate 7.3 times that of non-Hispanic white people. The disparity was nine times higher in the 35-44 age group”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. That is largest disease outcome race gap I know of.

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“In a supermassive black hole’s disk, the flowing gas converts the mosh pit of the swarm to a classical minuet, organizing the black holes so they can pair up.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Quasar neighborhood.

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Norway COVID in gyms.

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. I suspect their disease level is too low for ttis to mean much

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“Google, institutionally, is bored with Android.”

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Yes. Google is excited by AI and nothing else.

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COVID-19 spreads quickly but not typically exponentially.

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Rediscovering basic disease models, but a useful reminder that we overuse “exponential”.

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“Many T cells apparently die, and so the body’s reserves are depleted — particularly in those over age 40, in whom the thymus gland, the organ that generates new T cells, has become less efficient.”

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. 40 is the new Old.

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Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says – The New York Times

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. “but the White House has yet to authorize any step” Trump needs Putin more than ever.

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COVID vaccine: Africa is not being misused.

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Neither Black America.

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“just 23 percent of Americans ages 16 to 19 will work this summer”

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Going to be a violent summer. Gov should be creating jobs.

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US pandemic 2: the younger are the vectors

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Sucks to be 45 plus.

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“We’ve all done the best that we can do to tackle this virus,” Redfield said, pleading for more investment in the country’s health infrastructure.”

Posted on June 26, 2020 by jgordon

Link. Pleading.

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