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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
2025/02/10
2020/04/16
The Yearly Shutin
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793?
https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-covid-19-returns-every-year-like-the-common-cold/
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The role of seasonality “is certainly not zero,” Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard who coauthored the study, said at a press conference held Tuesday. He cautioned that seasonal variability is not the same thing as saying the virus will go away in the summer. Outbreaks could occur at any time, he noted, but those that begin in the fall might be more severe. That kind of variation could have important implications for how social distancing measures are timed.
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https://www.wired.com/story/what-if-covid-19-returns-every-year-like-the-common-cold/
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The role of seasonality “is certainly not zero,” Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard who coauthored the study, said at a press conference held Tuesday. He cautioned that seasonal variability is not the same thing as saying the virus will go away in the summer. Outbreaks could occur at any time, he noted, but those that begin in the fall might be more severe. That kind of variation could have important implications for how social distancing measures are timed.
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2020/04/13
Health by lobbying
https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-joe-pizza-tell-trump-about-hydroxychloroquine/
Trump had directed Veterans Administration officials to take instruction from three un-appointed Mar-a-Lago members who had never served in government or the military. Emails obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington show how VA officials bristled under the shadow leadership of the “Mar-a-Lago Crowd”: Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marc Sherman, and internist Bruce Moskowitz.
Trump had directed Veterans Administration officials to take instruction from three un-appointed Mar-a-Lago members who had never served in government or the military. Emails obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington show how VA officials bristled under the shadow leadership of the “Mar-a-Lago Crowd”: Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, attorney Marc Sherman, and internist Bruce Moskowitz.
2020/03/29
pathetic
https://www.wired.com/story/business-as-usual-is-on-hold-even-at-the-epa
Trump and his lackeys continue to target the EPA.
2020/03/24
2020/02/28
This is who you voted for
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html
At that point the administration appears to have finally realized that it might need to do something beyond insisting that things were great. But according to The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman, it initially proposed paying for a virus response by cutting aid to the poor — specifically, low-income heating subsidies. Cruelty in all things.
At that point the administration appears to have finally realized that it might need to do something beyond insisting that things were great. But according to The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman, it initially proposed paying for a virus response by cutting aid to the poor — specifically, low-income heating subsidies. Cruelty in all things.
2020/02/26
not a unifier
Coronavirus will test whether the planet can unite in the face of a global crisis
The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/coronavirus-will-test-whether-the-planet-can-unite-in-the-face-of-a-global-crisis/
I disagree. I dont see trump doing anything but isolation if this grows. No way will he embrace help from another country. God forbid it is Iran.
2020/01/20
More Warming News
The Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is so remote that only 28 human beings have ever set foot on it.
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is so remote that only 28 human beings have ever set foot on it.
2019/09/26
Bucking the Trend
Newly Discovered Planet Challenges Astronomers' Notions Of How Planets Form
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/764247918/a-peculiar-solar-system-has-scientists-rethinking-theories-of-how-planets-form
2019/09/08
2019/08/19
well that just happened
https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-weather-station-above-the-arctic-circle-hit-94-6-degr-1837274379
2019/08/08
more on climate change
This is not something often discussed when you talk with people about how we are destroying the planet.
We’re Eating This Planet to Death! https://www.wired.com/story/ipcc-land-report-food
Labs and cows also release different greenhouse gases. To grow meat in the lab, you need electricity, which means CO2 emissions. That CO2 lingers in the atmosphere for thousands of years, whereas the methane released by cows lasts more like 12 years. Powering future lab-grown meat facilities with renewables will be essential to improving the climate-wrecking profile of meat.
2019/07/17
waiting for the book
Now We Know How the Zombie Ant Gets Its Bite
https://www.wired.com/story/now-we-know-how-the-zombie-ant-gets-its-bite
waiting for the book
Now We Know How the Zombie Ant Gets Its Bite
https://www.wired.com/story/now-we-know-how-the-zombie-ant-gets-its-bite
One more radical change
If We All Ate Enough Fruits And Vegetables, There'd Be Big Shortages
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/17/742670701/if-we-all-ate-enough-fruits-and-vegetables-thered-be-big-shortages
The report comes at a time when poor diets are a leading cause of premature death. In fact, a recent study found diets are now responsible for more deaths than smoking around the globe. And it's become increasingly clear that current dietary patterns are detrimental to the environment, too. Recent studies, including the EAT-Lancet study and the Global Nutrition Report, have pointed to the need for a radical shift in the food system aimed at nudging people toward more nutritious and sustainable diets
One more radical change
If We All Ate Enough Fruits And Vegetables, There'd Be Big Shortages
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/17/742670701/if-we-all-ate-enough-fruits-and-vegetables-thered-be-big-shortages
The report comes at a time when poor diets are a leading cause of premature death. In fact, a recent study found diets are now responsible for more deaths than smoking around the globe. And it's become increasingly clear that current dietary patterns are detrimental to the environment, too. Recent studies, including the EAT-Lancet study and the Global Nutrition Report, have pointed to the need for a radical shift in the food system aimed at nudging people toward more nutritious and sustainable diets
2019/07/16
Worst BSOD Ever
Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control
https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control
what an amazing moment to have a computer crash, and have to recover.
Worst BSOD Ever
Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control/?itm_campaign=TechinTwo
2019/03/28
Idaho dumps coal
Idaho Utility Spurns Coal, Pledges 100 Percent 'Clean' Energy By 2045
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707225124/idaho-utility-spurns-coal-pledges-100-percent-clean-energy-by-2045
2018/11/27
Black Hole Doppelgangers
Unexpectedly Vanishing Quasars Are Mystifying Scientists https://www.wired.com/story/unexpectedly-vanishing-quasars-are-mystifying-scientists
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