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One of Geology’s Great Mysteries May Actually Be Many Smaller Mysteries
One of Geology's Great Mysteries May Actually Be Many Smaller Mysteries
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/great-unconformity-geology-mystery
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Lord May of Oxford obituary
Lord May of Oxford obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/29/robert-may-bob-may-lord-may-obituary
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Stop salting steak before you cook it
Stop salting steak before you cook it
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2020-04-28/stop-salting-steak-before-you-cook-it
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VinePair: We Asked 10 Drinks Pros: Which Tequila Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck?
We Asked 10 Drinks Pros: Which Tequila Offers the Best Bang for Your Buck?
Synonymous with the simple but always satisfying Margarita, tequila shines in many cocktails, from the tart, citrus-forward Paloma, to the sweet fruity layers of a Tequila Sunrise. Meanwhile, any purist will say that sipping the spirit neat, or with ice, is the best way to truly enjoy its range of complex flavors. As tequila's popularity in the U.S. continues to grow, so too does the overwhelming selection and spectrum of styles available on the market.
Read in VinePair: https://apple.news/AAup9lhZmQl-jnkCOKgo_lA
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
What the Diamond Princess taught the world about covid-19 | The BMJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1632
Sunday, April 26, 2020
COVID19 hospital
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074336v1.full.pdf
Saturday, April 25, 2020
Friday, April 24, 2020
Christian Drosten: "We Have To Bring Down the Number of Cases Now. Otherwise We Won't Be Able To Handle It" | ZEIT ONLINE
We're simply not able to increase our testing capacity as quickly as the number of cases rises. Then two things will coincide: First, some of the people who are now sick with COVID-19 will die. And second, because we won't be able to test everyone, our statistics will be incomplete. Our fatality rate will then also rise. It will appear that the virus has become more dangerous, but this will be a statistical artifact, a distortion. It will simply reflect what's already starting to happen: We're missing more and more infections.
ZEIT ONLINE: What can we do about it?
Drosten: We have to take shortcuts. If one person in a household tests positive, we could, for instance, consider the entire household to be positive, even without a test. Because we know that is what is going to happen: If one family member gets infected, they infect everyone else. If you say right away that the entire family is positive, you save yourself a lot of testing. Imagine that you're infected, and the next day your wife has to go and stand in line. And then imagine the test doesn't detect her infection yet, and she has to come back. That doesn't make any sense. So, it's better if the entire family isolates at home from the get-go. They're already doing this in the Netherlands and I'm going to suggest that Germany follow suit in discussions with health authorities.
https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/christian-drosten-coronavirus-pandemic-germany-virologist-chariteThursday, April 23, 2020
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Bloomberg: Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective
Sweden Says Controversial Covid-19 Strategy Is Proving Effective
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Saturday, April 18, 2020
Friday, April 17, 2020
You Have 11 New Netflix Treats To Binge This Weekend. Here’s What’s Worth Watching ASAP
You Have 11 New Netflix Treats To Binge This Weekend. Here's What's Worth Watching ASAP
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/04/9700878/new-netflix-april-17-too-hot-to-handle-outer-banks-blackaf
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
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Quote from The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency Book 2) by John Scalzi
— The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency Book 2) by John Scalzi
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Monday, April 13, 2020
Woman Wears Hilarious Costumes While Walking Her Dog To Both Disturb And Cheer Up Her Neighbors
Woman Wears Hilarious Costumes While Walking Her Dog To Both Disturb And Cheer Up Her Neighbors
https://www.boredpanda.com/walking-dog-bizarre-costume-clare-meardon/
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Sunday, April 12, 2020
New Arizona data shows Native Americans, older people and men dying most from COVID-19
New Arizona data shows Native Americans, older people and men dying most from COVID-19
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/04/12/coronavirus-in-arizona-data-where-who-deaths-impact-location-cases/2979690001/
— Steve Smith
Friday, April 10, 2020
Thursday, April 09, 2020
The Guardian: Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!
Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked!
As fans puzzle out the epic Murder Most Foul, we count down the best of Bob, from the fury of Pay in Blood to the pure genius of Simple Twist of Fate
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Wednesday, April 08, 2020
Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show - The New York Times
New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that travelers brought in the virus mainly from Europe, not Asia.
"The majority is clearly European," said Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who co-wrote a study awaiting peer review.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.htmlTuesday, April 07, 2020
SCIENMAG: Treatment relieves depression in 90% of participants in small study
Treatment relieves depression in 90% of participants in small study
A new form of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of participants in a small study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Monday, April 06, 2020
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Why The Internet Didn’t Break—But It Still Failed Millions - Lawfare
https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-internet-didnt-break-it-still-failed-millions
Thursday, April 02, 2020
Engaging anecdotes add intimacy to tales of Earth’s 4 billion years of evolution
Engaging anecdotes add intimacy to tales of Earth's 4 billion years of evolution
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2020/03/23/some-assembly-required/?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Twitter
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Netflix Has Secret Codes That Will Help You Find SO MUCH to Watch Right Now
Netflix Has Secret Codes That Will Help You Find SO MUCH to Watch Right Now
https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/netflix-codes/
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The Battle for New York
The Battle for New York
https://slate.com/culture/2020/04/the-city-we-became-nk-jemisin-reviewed.html
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Seeing the COVID-19 Crisis Is Like Watching a Time Lapse of Climate Change. Will the Right Lessons Be Learned? | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/fake-news-climate-change-coronavirus-time-lapse-1495603
What Really Doomed America's Coronavirus Response - The Atlantic
On January 29, about a week after China's government shifted from a deny-and-censor strategy to massive action and communication, Chinese scientists published a significant paper in The New England Journal of Medicine. The paper estimated the R0 (the basic reproduction number of an infectious disease) from the first known case of coronavirus in early December through January 4 to be little more than 2. That means that, left somewhat unchecked, each infected person infected two more people. Crucially, the paper pointed out evidence of mild and even asymptomatic cases, unlike SARS, which almost always came with a high fever. It also confirmed the reports that the disease was most dangerous for the elderly or people with underlying conditions. The paper came out just after China made the unprecedented move to shut down all of Wuhan, a metropolis of 10 million people, and also Hubei, a province of 50 million people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/03/what-really-doomed-americas-coronavirus-response/608596/