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Link. You can see all links pointing to a note as well. Markdown not required, but links are markdown based. Wiki style creation, links use GUIDs so persist if title changes. Rolling out to various platforms.
Height determined by thousands of genes.
Link. This is why our personalized medicine hopes died in the 00s. Imagine how many play a role in autism or schizophrenia or weight.
“The country had been brutal for a very long time, from the beginning actually. And now the rhetoric began to mirror reality.”
Link. Mass shootings were tolerated. Patriarchy is very strong.
“One universe observes facts, respects science, and values at least the goals of democracy and civility; the other universe does not.”
Link. The never-college vote now.
“The political polling profession is done,” leading Republican pollster Frank Luntz told me just after 11 p.m. “It is devastating for my industry.”
Link. A new world.
“some bugs in the version of Big Sur that Apple intends to ship”
Link. I will probably run Mojave until May 2021.
“structural changes in the chromatin prime the cell to make and preserve memories”
Link. The root of consciousness.
“If the US death rates were comparable to Australia, the US would have had 187 661 fewer COVID-19 deaths (94% of reported deaths), and if comparable with Canada, 117 622 fewer deaths (59%),”
Link. Canada is the champ we try to emulate but always fall short.
COVID and immunology 101.
Link. Amazing primer. “Around twenty per cent of an older adult’s T-cell repertoire is devoted to fighting a single virus: human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)”
“Tom Rose, who is the first known person at the White House to test positive, according to several people, but whose identity was not disclosed until now”
Link. Finding patient zero.
“the world is in a global liquidity trap, where monetary policy has limited effect.”
Link. Our talent supply far exceeds talent demand.
“only Delta Air Lines committed to leaving its middle seats open during the holidays, now through Jan. 6”
Link. Worth paying for.
“90 percent of Republicans expect Trump to win”
Link. I doubt 30% of Dems expect Biden to win — despite data. That’s a staggering number.
Beyond “herd immunity”, parts of America will enbrace COVID.
Link. As expected. We also embrace gun violence.
China easily blocked investigation into COVID origins.
Link. Even 30y ago the WHO would have caved. Never built for a fight. The bad actor is China.
For GOP Facebook bends its rules.
Link. Create a NPR-model clone. Let Facebook become talk radio.
“any indictments or convictions resulting from their actions would be beyond the reach of a Presidential pardon.”
Link. A reference.
Breaking precedent NYT compares Canada’s COVID response to US.
Link. What a sane country can do.
Electroacupuncture failed to decrease pain in plavebo controlled trial.
Link. Activity increased however. I’m skeptical there’s anything non-placebo here, but I do love acupuncture as placebo.
“NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) recently said it was concerned about the disjointed way the complicated system was being developed and tested.”
Link. Politics and government contracting rules dictated the multi-vendor build.
“trade in my two-year-old device (a credit of $155) for this year’s model”
Link. Apple’s answer to unfixable battery is to trade-in every 2 years.
Metaphysics of QFT.
Link. Light reading.
Car-free development in Arizona.
Link. I could see something like that for retirement.
Birx: “said to have walked out of a meeting of the White House coronavirus task force this summer, and decided never to return again.”
Link. Atlas was the last straw.
“municipalities with first-wave excess deaths of at least 0.5% of the population have tallied 216 cases per 100,000 people—one-third as many as in areas with excess deaths around 0.1%.”
Link. As expected. Vaccines should work.
“If you need to be cocooned in nostalgia—and slightly repulsed by adolescence—there’s the middle-school comedy “Pen15,” which is set in the early two-thousands”
Link. The 2000s are nostalgia now.
CDC: “ProPublica’s reporting affords the most comprehensive inside look at the escalating tensions, paranoia and pained discussions that unfolded behind the walls of CDC’s Atlanta headquarters”
Link. I expected more would speak out.
Declining COVID fatality driven by decreases in olds.
Link. German data series.
Trump and lost illusions
Link. A litany of bad presidents actually refutes the claim that Trunp is not unique. he unites the worst of every horrible president. Harding’s corruption. Nixon’s abuse of power. Wilson’s racism. Then he adds an unprecedented attack on truth.
The illusions that Trump removed.
Link. Credit him for this: we know what we are now.
Allocating COVID vaccines: Black priority?
Link. Favoring Black Americans would crush White vaccine resistance.
Zuck hates Apple privacy protection.
Link. No stronger validation.
“The union that represents Minneapolis police officers is trying to recruit former cops to work as ‘poll challengers’ to work in ‘problem’ areas at the request of an attorney connected to President Donald Trump’s campaign”
Link. Scum.
The Never Trumpers: “we will always be able to say that when Trump and his thugs took over the Republican Party and then the elected branches of the United States government, we did not cut and run. We stood and fought.”
Link. Respect.
“Apple started attaching RFID tags to some of its equipment to keep track of where it was going”
Link. China is a tough neighborhood.
‘Inside Foxconn’s Empty Buildings, Empty Factories, and Empty Promises in Wisconsin’
Link. If Trump loses WI there might be a small measure of justice.
“there’s no reason anyone should buy Apple’s 20W adapter instead of Anker’s or Aukey’s”
Link. Noted.
Average body temp drop in Amazon tribe too.
Link. Associated with longer life.
Trump circulated Biden smear: “One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.”
Link. These bozos have effectively insulated Joe and Hunter from *any* allegation. Honorary Resistance members.
“offered us a corruption master class, presenting for our edification a kind of full-spectrum corruption that may be unprecedented in American history”
Link. Harding can rest easy now.
“once dogs had become domesticated, and even while they were sometimes breeding with wolves, no new wolf DNA entered their genomes.”
Link. More questions than answers. Pushes domestication back to 20kya, weird that modern wolves have dog DNA but not vice-versa. Very successful global parasite!
Melania at her most likeable.
Link. “Heart of assassin” but the author is clearly a fan. In a funny way I too respect Melania’s brand of evil. She and Trump do seem to be friends.
Why have COVID death rates fallen?
Link. We are doing less harm and providers fear the virus less, but mortality fall not fully understood. Hospitalization rates have fallen less.
“From 1971 to 1972, there were 2,500 bombings in the U.S”
Link. I did not remember that. I do remember the 1970s were extremely weird.
Remdesivir: “very, very bad look for the FDA, and the dealings between the Gilead and EU make it another layer of badness”
Link. Gilead did well though
“not a single case of fomite-caused Covid-19 has been observed”
Link. All that wiping … probably cut down on colds though.
“ doubt I will ever buy an Apple Watch as a gift again, except maybe for my wife.”
Link. I do not have enough lifespan for this.
“If their CNN mimicked a visual system, they wondered, could it predict neural responses to a novel image?”
Link. Establishing parallel architectural features.
Malaria tricks: timing attacks when mosquitoes are around.
Link. Falciparum adaptations hold clues to many disease treatments. Natural selection is a diabolical inventor.