I love this alternate ending to The Giving Tree: The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries
Links
Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”
Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”
COVID-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”: The controversy
Evidence is emerging suggesting that COVID-19 does not spread equally. A minority of infected individuals seem to spread the virus easily to many people, while most infected individuals spread it to few others or no one at all, likely through a combination of circumstance, environment, and possibly biology. Why is this, and what does it mean for coronavirus containment strategies?
Interesting article about how a burst of quick & cheap building in the 1950s of terraced balcony homes resulted – by accident – in a vertical mix of economic classes & vibrant urban life. “Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments”
Interesting article about how a burst of quick & cheap building in the 1950s of terraced balcony homes resulted – by accident – in a vertical mix of economic classes & vibrant urban life.
“Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments”
Interesting idea: an “I made a mistake” button on social media
Interesting idea: an “I made a mistake” button on social media to let people retract a bad take so that it stops spreading, those who saw it will see the follow-up, & people are a bit more willing to admit an error to start with
covid and asthma (+/-)
Good: Asthma alone doesn’t seem to increase your risk of Covid-19 hitting so bad you need to be hospitalized.
Bad: Other co-morbidities might.
Weird: Stress/exercise-induced asthma does seem to increase your risk of a severe case…but allergy-induced asthma doesn’t. In fact, some researchers are speculating that allergies might reduce ACE2 expression and actually *protect* from infection! (Don’t worry, I won’t rely on that even if it pans out.)
Does asthma increase Covid-19 risk? Emerging research suggests a complicated connection – STAT News
Look, actual data on this coronavirus and actions taken, showing what people who study diseases have been telling you for months. “Now you can see the relationship between reopening policies and COVID-19 cases”
Look, actual data on this coronavirus and actions taken, showing what people who study diseases have been telling you for months.
“Now you can see the relationship between reopening policies and COVID-19 cases”
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an …
People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an update on the guy who was going to stay for two weeks but got caught by a freak snowstorm and then the travel restrictions…and has decided to stay.
They Live Alone in Ghost Towns
There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?
Spiral holes in the deserts of Nazca identified as part of an ancient aqueduct system.
Spiral holes in the deserts of Nazca identified as part of an ancient aqueduct system.
Setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break
Story about a landscape photo that went viral not just because it’s incredible, but because setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break due to a bug in how the system handles color spaces.
‘How my photo ended up breaking Android phones’
Gaurav Agrawal, a scientist and amateur photographer living in San Diego, couldn’t believe it when he suddenly started seeing a photograph he took last summer popping up on the news.
50 years of research shows that police responding to protests with force causes *more* violence. But they keep doing it anyway. via @FiveThirtyEight
50 years of research shows that police responding to protests with force causes *more* violence. But they keep doing it anyway.
via @FiveThirtyEight
Link: Trump’s “Preventing Online Censorship” Executive Order Is Pro-Censorship Political Theater
Oh Sorry, No, Go Ahead
Coworkers On Zoom Trapped In Infinite Loop Of Telling Each Other ‘Oh Sorry, No, Go Ahead’
– @TheOnion
Her Cellphone Number Used To Be Elon Musk’s. You Can Imagine The Calls She Gets
“Whenever I see his name pop up in the news, I’m like, ‘OK, I have to actually learn what he said because, chances are, someone is going to message me about it or call me about it'”
Her Cellphone Number Used To Be Elon Musk’s. You Can Imagine The Calls She Gets
The last Blockbuster standing is still open during the pandemic, doing curbside service and social distancing.
The last Blockbuster standing is still open during the pandemic, doing curbside service and social distancing. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/blockbuster-video-store-surviving-pandemic-1202231221/
Ok, who had “Michael Moore pushes old and discredited fossil fuel talking points to attack environmentalists and build support for eugenics” on their 2020 bingo card?
Ok, who had “Michael Moore pushes old and discredited fossil fuel talking points to attack environmentalists and build support for eugenics” on their 2020 bingo card?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/planet-humans-film-moore/
The coronavirus lockdown is miserable. Rushing herd immunity could be worse
covid/interesting tech
Robot Vehicles Make Contactless Deliveries Amid Coronavirus Quarantine
Chinese startup UDI deploys self-driving vans to deliver food to lockdown areas
Old code never truly dies: Covid-19 has New Jersey scrambling for COBOL programmers to fix unemployment insurance systems.
Old code never truly dies: Covid-19 has New Jersey scrambling for COBOL programmers to fix unemployment insurance systems.
Covid-adjacent/TP
Interesting point about toilet paper shortages: toilet paper sold for home use and toilet paper sold for businesses isn’t made or packaged the same way…and all those people who used to be spending some of their trips to the bathroom at work, at a restaurant, wherever, are doing all of them at home. Which means yes, we actually are using more home-grade TP (and less commercial-grade).
https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0
Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics
IEEE article: Lessons Learned by NYC Makers Producing Personal Protective Equipment for Medics: Focus on what health workers actually need, rather than what you think you can invent