Link. Without science tens of millions would die and hundreds of millions would be terribly ill.
Daily Archives: June 8, 2020
3D model of the SARS-CoV-2 virus at atomic resolution.
Link. A package of inanimate molecules waiting to bump into something that will run the code.
“Type A blood was linked to a 50 percent increase in the likelihood that a patient would need to get oxygen or to go on a ventilator”
Link. That’s an impressive effect.
“The soft bodies of the abyssal class are made of mucoid and gelatinous materials — somewhat like jellyfish, only stranger.”
Link. Aliens on earth.
“Dr. Sullivan the first person to both walk in space and to descend to the deepest point in the ocean.”
Link. Astronauts are amazing people. (Often surprisingly nice too.)
Forgotten no more: the white women who sustained American racism.
Link. No surprise to anthropologists. In patriarchal societies women create and sustain culture.
Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’
Link. If this were not true I think our numbers would be much worse.
Shutdown benefits substantial: “School closures seemed to have no significant effect”
Link. If children are less infectious than thought that is one heck of a lucky break.
Cotton “shoot em all” editorial leads to resignation of NYT OpEd editor.
Link. NY can’t fire Sulzberger.
Putin helped push Trump over the edge.
Link. They are a lot alike, may be as close to friends as sociopaths can get.
CDC: Americans Are Misting Their Bodies With Disinfectant Spray and Gargling Bleach to Prevent Coronavirus
Link. Trunp should have been fired for that comment alone.