Link. For once China-trouble predictions come true. Bad vaccine and limits of citizen stress. Expect supply chain issues.
“most world champions sample one sport after another as children and gain mastery in their chosen activities considerably later than other, more focused young athletes whom they eventually go on to defeat.”
Link. Not expected.
“Their 7-year-old son still sends texts to his father’s phone, DuPreez said. “The very first one was, ‘Dad, are you still alive?’”
Link. Get vaccinated.
COVID kids: 4.4% symptoms over 4w vs 1% for other virus
Link. 1.8% 8 weeks vs. adult 4.5% 8 weeks. I don’t see how this is reassuring, the 8 week numbers are almost half of adult risk.
New thrill for right: “Portugal’s fascist-adjacent dictator António de Oliveira Salazar”
Link. Orban too. They are being honest at least.
“Chaperone proteins recognize common structural features and folds, and guide the developing protein into familar territory.”
Link. Modern biology learning opportunity.
Sabine on Tegmark: “The idea has more recently been given a modern formulation by Max Tegmark who called it the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis.”
Link. Natural opponents. I enjoyed Tegmark’s book.
“political patterns in America look much like those Orbán used to gather power into his own hands”
Link. Meanwhile American journalists want desperately to believe the GOP is a sane political party.
“The cutting-edge system was in use, searching for signs of the couple in Mexico, but it does not appear to be what led authorities to them.”
Link. It was the reward money. The “community group” supporting them isn’t the brightest bunch.
Details on the ISS spin.
Link. Feels understated.
“Apple’s App Tracking Transparency neither stops tracking, nor provides any real transparency, and instead gives users a false sense of privacy.”
Link. As expected.
Lindsey Graham exposed much of Senate to COVID.
Link. Hope they are all vaccinated.
“They then took this mirror-world polymerase enzyme and used it to make mirror-world DNA sequences.”
Link. Nanotech toolkit expands.
A third of white-tailed deer tested in a survey were exposed to the coronavirus.
Link. Probably through another animal vector. It’s a very cool virus.
QR codes are the cookies of the material world.
Link. Same tracking and profiling.
Irritable bowel syndrome update.
Link. I suspect many different interacting causes including neurology of the bowel. It’s not one disease.
“The number of college graduates in China rose by 73 percent in the past decade.”
Link. Too many knowledge workers, not enough knowledge work drives China’s culture of extreme competition.
Trump’s attack on federal science has left wounded agencies.
Link. The war isn’t over. The GOP is virulently anti-science now.
“Big Sur’s updates have become inefficient to the point of absurdity.”
Link.
“it’s gratifying to know I’ve done something that Goddess Snow approves of.” More like this, please., please.
Link. Humanity.
“Sadism. Research shows that many trolls are sadists, who delight in making other people feel uncomfortable.”
Link. Rerun of a Noahpinion essay — I confess I haven’t thought enough about how the net enabled a golden age of sadism.
“Welwitschia grows only two leaves — and continuously — in a lifetime that can last millenniums.”
Link. “When it does stop growing, it’s dead.”
Explainer: Snapshots in APFS.
Link. APFS has become impressive. Now Apple needs to replace SMB.
“Twisties” in gymnastics.
Link. It can end careers.
M1 MacBook screen crack defect.
Link. Air and Pro. Sure sounds like a product defect.
US cumulative GDP projections: “$295 trillion over the next 10 years”
Link. Remember the Singularity?
“For Chinese students hoping to get a spot at a prestigious university, everything hinges on the gaokao”
Link. Insanity.
“Osterholm’s plea for humility does have policy implications. It argues for prioritizing vaccination over every other strategy.”
Link. He has been a few times in the pandemic and has become more cautious. I felt same way with SARS – do not understand.
“Ms. Dingley’s identity was confirmed through DNA testing after a single bone had been found close to her last known location.”
Link. But no gear. That is weird.
Disability benefits: “structurally difficult to be on S.S.I. and not live in poverty.”
Link. The bureaucracy and paperwork is incomprehensible.
For history: Trump’s attempt to seize power gets more details.
Link. “The department found that the error rate of ballot counting in Michigan was 0.0063 percent, not the 68 percent that the president asserted.”
The crisis was real. He’s still trying.
“33 percent of Black men have felony records”
Link. Wait. Stop. Whoa. This is a throwaway line in an article on American injustice. I don’t believe it.
SK: “34.9 percent of its 52 million people having received at least one dose”
Link. That’s more than I thought. I think Japan might be less.
Women Surgeons: “42 percent had suffered a pregnancy loss, more than twice the rate of the general population”
Link. Age at pregnancy and age of partner would be a factor, but that’s a big delta for a healthy cohort. Unexpected.
Mandate Momentum
Link. Shame and blame worked for smoking, driving drunk and more.
“Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema said she does not support the bill in its current form”
Link. Waiting for a form McConnell approves of. There will not be an infrastructure bill that relies on Sinema.
“The country has never cut poverty so much in such a short period of time”.
Link. 45%
“Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them under age 5, a mortality rate greater than that of any other country”
Link. No explanation why.
“The aging liberal justices have essentially put a higher priority on their own personal interests than on their judicial ideals.”
Link. Or the Republican justices are more profit motivated.
“YouTube’s ad revenue was up 84 percent in the second quarter from the same period in 2020”
Link.
Transferring your photos from Google Photos using Avalanche
Link. First use Google Takeout.
Monterey music: “main part of the window was entirely devoted to an ad for Apple Music, and there seemed to be no way to dismiss it except to subscribe.”
Link. I try to avoid Apple products.
“Apple contracts many of its Mac repairs to third-party providers, including CSAT Solutions”
Link. Sweatshop. Repair will be poor quality. We need “right to repair” so we can get better options.
Mountain Bike Road Trip Planner.
Link. Trailforks. Choose a route for the side trip.
Astounding details on the nanomachinery of the coronavirus: “The virus’s speedy entry using TMPRSS2 explains why the malaria drug chloroquine didn’t work”
Link. It’s ludicrous that we are made of this.
“Members of the House Republican Doctors Caucus also claimed at a news conference last week that natural immunity is an acceptable defense against the Delta variant”
Link. What a bunch of turds.
“photosynthetic efficiency went up by a startling 36%”
Link. Radical bioengineering.
“our world as we know it is on the brink; we face massive death tolls, and the collapse of economies and nations.”
Link. We don’t understand why Africa seemed to be relatively spared before now. China will be next.
“Mr. Biden made it clear that he was running out of patience with people who refuse to get a shot that could save their lives and protect others.”
Link. Not just him.
“Dr. Candela said that he got both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as soon as they were available, but that his wife, a registered nurse, feared it could alter her DNA and had not yet been inoculated. She has also prevented their four children, who a
Link. Only half of the US is mostly sane.