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“Iwasaki’s work indicates the T-cell response of men in their 30s and 40s is equivalent to that of a woman in her 90s.”
Link. Minor positive: men have less auto-immune disease.
“for remdesivir, it looks like the argument now is “Does it help a bit or just not at all?”
Link. Inhaled interferon also limited hope now. At least we still have Dexa. Then there are the monoclonals that only the powerful get …
Reeder 5 RSS is $5.
Link. Reeder has had a burst of development. I wonder if he’s doing yearly updates now; yearly $5 price is quite fine. I’ll buy in a few months.
“the epistemic capture in the US of (not only, but in particular) poor and working class whites by conservatives, billionaires and propagandists is one of the great social engineering success stories of the last half century”
Link. Great explanation of the Trump base. I believe this.
microCOVID risk calculator.
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COVID – activity risk calculator.
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Cold, dark, and COVID: the coping.
Link. Sleep a lot.
Making movies: “But never, ever, kill the dog.”
Link. Not even cats.
“health club was opened late last year by Maryam Durani, 36, an indomitable women’s rights advocate who has survived two suicide bombings, an assassination attempt and countless death threats”
Link. Extreme heroism is a kind of pathology — but also, you know, heroic.
Independently Microsoft, US gov and others fight Russian election hackers.
Link. Too many independent efforts for Trump to block.
“find an antibody that not only works against the current virus, but also past viruses that might re-emerge, like SARS, and future viruses that exist already in the bat reservoir”
Link. A prize worthy of pursuit.
Physical Therapy for Back Pain – Limited benefits.
Link. Damn hard to study. I believe in very intense strengthening, far beyond usual PT, but I don’t have good ecidence.
Early data on post COVID lung recovery.
Link. Roughly what we expected. Most get mostly better over months to year, many have some residual lung damage. (Also true of everyday pneumonia.)
Miss Havisham Syndrome:”I’ve spent much of the last week in the squalor that is macOS.”
Link. Technical debt grows exponemtially. Apple has had poor software leadership.
“because most transmission is probably occurring through particles of at least 1 µm, according to Marr and Jimenez, the actual difference in effectiveness between N95 and other masks might not be huge.”
Link. Excellent summary on mask data writtem for lay audience.
“The cow bone scaffold had been reabsorbed into the pigs’ bodies. What was left was a jawbone indistinguishable from the one that had originally been there.”
Link. Relevant to a family member. Maybe knees one day.
“average electric vehicle in the United States was found to be responsible for emission levels equivalent to those generated by a gasoline vehicle that gets 88 miles per gallon”
Link. Even EV supercars are not bad.
“iPhone 12 is $130 more expensive than the iPhone 11 was”
Link. $165 if you add cost mussing power adaper and headphobe. Inflation returning?
The Laundry Files: an updated chronology
Link. I’ve read them all – except newest (yet).
Third Justice Dept. Prosecutor Publicly Denounces Barr.
Link. Barr is perhaps the most dangerous of Trump’s lackeys.
Profile of an alt-right woman celebrity.
Link. Not very bright but addicted to celebrity. The people I’ve known like her feel slighted, inferior, and inadequate. They bitterly resent people they feel are better than they are.
NYT endorsement equivocates: “Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.”
Link. Unsure if this is sufficiently clear. Maybe democracy is a bad thing.
“A study in the journal Nature later estimated that rapid screening could have reduced the scale of the Ebola epidemic by one-third.”
Link. These tests require high viral titers so they are hard to characterize. PCR maybe wrong metric.
Russia and Trump: “raising the issue will often derail his regular intelligence briefings by an analyst, so it has fallen to Mr. O’Brien to brief him on such matters”
Link. The least sane president ever.
“Apple’s customers would be best served by having a good, updated, user-friendly line of AirPort base stations, rather than just another ‘smart’ wireless speaker.”
Link. Yes.
“Calgary spin studio Ride Cycle Club had an outbreak that infected 65 people”
Link. Wish we knew more about air flow in these outbreaks.
LGBTQ filmmaker and Biden voter is also Giuliani’s daugher.
Link. Beyond being sane and thus a Biden supporter, she shares the pain of having a crazy man father she doesn’t actually hate. Giuliani (father) is such a human train wreck.
China: “accepting these people could jeopardize the “health and safety” of 300,000 Canadians who live in the former British colony.“
Link. Xi is fine with Trump but he hates Canada.
Where Birx went bad: The CDC takedown.
Link. Was Larry Ellison involved?
John Snow Memorandum: herd immunity is a “dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence”
Link. Good to have this.
Airline industry docs say air travel is COVID safe.
Link. Huge bias but perhaps a useful reference.
“Many voters are still supporting Trump because they’re living in a hermetically sealed disinformation bubble that is impermeable to reality.”
Link. You likely can’t imagine what life is like with an IQ under 100. Which is half of America. Everything is mysterious. Good information is paywalled and you can’t process it even when it’s available.
Outbreak in an indoor spin class.
Link. Hope to see case report. What was ventilation like? (Bad news for my CrossFit box — and maybe for ice hockey)
Murdoch MN: “Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) are part of a larger movement termed “Neo-Völkisch” that raises up Northern European and Germanic ancestry”
Link. Fertile soil.
George Floyd’s high school years.
Link. WaPo is doing a deep dive on his life. Springsteen’s Glory Days in High School. White kids like him are Trump’s base.
“These two statements are known, today, as the Weak Anthropic Principle and the Strong Anthropic Principle”
Link. I didn’t know definitions before.
Origin of life: “you really needed to do to get the pathway started was drop two stable reactants into buffered water and stick it on a warm hotplate”
Link. Anyone could do the experiment … if they had the idea.
How to get a reasonable plaintext listing of calendar events using Google Calendar or OS X Calendar.app (2013)
Link. “Simple tasks, like a plaintext agenda view one’s Calendar, are mysterious or impossible on the modern Mac. (Classic had much better Calendar tools.)” In 2020 things are actually worse.
Gravity is conserved, so how does dark matter create structures?
Link. Expansion of space and asymmetry of approach vs departure mass.
ABLE Accounts improve with new IRS rules.
Link. Transfer from 529 through 2026! Most state ABLE implementations are horrible though. Way too hard to use the money.
“In 987 severely ill patients, at least 101 of them had such antibodies against at least one of the Type I interferons”
Link. Severe COVID may be related to having an immune system mistake.
“To define a perfectoid space, the three mathematicians had to combine more than 3,000 definitions of other mathematical objects and 30,000 connections between them.“
Link. Using Lean, an environment for mathematical proofs.
A Trumpista gets COVID – bad. So does his family.
Link. Hell of a way to learn that he had put his trust in con men and bastards.
NYT exciting 2018 ISIS story probably fraudulent.
Link. The truth is often boring.
Addressing structural underemployment of the Never-College (2013)
Link. Part of why Trump won in 2016 was because the Never-College thought he was going to focus on their needs. If Biden wins he will need to act quickly.
Electric vehicles will end another non-college job – the auto mechanic.
Link. If President Biden doesn’t address this problem we’ll get another Trump in 2024.
Changing Apple ID used for for Family Sharing (every 90 days)
Link. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
How the ‘The Babylon Bee’ went from anti-Trump to supporting Trump.
Link. The path of the American Evangelical.
“beats Christofides’ 50% factor, though they were only able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent”
Link. That’s weird.