Wednesday, April 29, 2020

In memoriam: Robert May | Santa Fe Institute

https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/memoriam-robert-may


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The Man Who Thought Too Fast | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/the-man-who-thought-too-fast


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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.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The drugs and treatments that could stop Covid-19 - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/tracking-the-hunt-for-coronavirus-drugs-and-vaccines-211416


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Brazil Coronavirus Map and Case Count - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/americas/brazil-coronavirus-cases.html


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CA eldercare homes make up 40 percent of COVID-19 deaths | The Sacramento Bee

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article242348891.html


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COVID-19 fault lines - The Lancet

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30812-6/fulltext


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Coronavirus: The moral logic of the response - Vox

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/17/21180256/coronavirus-covid-19-trump-response-bernie-sanders-moral-logic


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Stats of the State of Mississippi

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/mississippi/mississippi.htm


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Stats of the States - Influenza/Pneumonia Mortality

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mortality/flu_pneumonia.htm


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Several southwest Georgia counties highlighted as COVID-19 hot spots in new data | 11alive.com

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/southwest-georgia-counties-highlighted-as-covid-19-hotspots/85-9145f3d1-f044-472d-be77-a385cd663cad


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COVID19

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/Scientists_to_Stop_COVID19_2020_04_23_FINAL.pdf

Sunday, April 26, 2020

How coronavirus mutations can track its spread—and disprove conspiracies

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/how-coronavirus-mutations-can-track-its-spread-and-disprove-conspiracies/


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There’s Been a Spike in People Dying at Home in Several… — ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/theres-been-a-spike-in-people-dying-at-home-in-several-cities-that-suggests-coronavirus-deaths-are-higher-than-reported


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Modeling infectious disease dynamics | Science

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/23/science.abb5659.full


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The 2019-2020 flu season, charted | Advisory Board Daily Briefing

http://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/03/17/flu-update


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840 sailors on USS Theodore Roosevelt test positive for COVID-19, Navy says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/24/coronavirus-uss-theodore-roosevelt-sailors-test-covid-19-positive/3018331001/


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COVID19 hospital

Rates of comorbidities and medication use are high among individuals hospitalised with COVID-19. However, COVID-19 patients are more likely to be male and appear to be younger and, in the US, generally healthier than those typically admitted with influenza
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20074336v1.full.pdf

The New Class War - American Affairs Journal

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/05/new-class-war/


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Friday, April 24, 2020

Best Long Reads on Classic Albums | Sunday Review | Pitchfork

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/sunday/?page=5


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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-charite


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Intel Corp (INTC) Q1 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2020/04/23/intel-corp-intc-q1-2020-earnings-call-transcript.aspx


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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor | Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711


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COVID-19 Projections Using Machine Learning | We use AI to forecast and project infections, deaths, and recovery timelines of the COVID-19 / coronavirus epidemic in the US and around the world

https://covid19-projections.com/


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Graphic: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S., per day

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-deaths-united-states-each-day-2020-n1177936


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Rhythmbox - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmbox


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Trump Is Trading the Lives of the Poor for Economic Growth - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/trump-trading-lives-poor-economic-growth/610264/


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Two weeks below the rim: An epic hike through the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon | Local | azdailysun.com

https://azdailysun.com/news/local/two-weeks-below-the-rim-an-epic-hike-through-the-eastern-portion-of-the-grand/article_d5f35a32-ec61-5ad0-8d3d-dbf1444c99cd.html


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Doctor on COVID-19: 'We are used to death, but not on this scale.' - Los Angeles Times

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-21/coronavirus-oral-history


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28,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Crisis - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html


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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing | Science

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/science.abb6936.full


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Economic Impact Payments | Internal Revenue Service

https://www.irs.gov/coronavirus/economic-impact-payments


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Quote from The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency Book 2) by John Scalzi

"the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked."

— The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency Book 2) by John Scalzi
https://a.co/fhYvJeM


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Radboudumc researchers publish new insights into COVID-19 - Consequences for treatment are now being examined internationally - Radboudumc

https://www.radboudumc.nl/en/nieuws/2020/radboudumc-researchers-publish-new-insights-into-covid-19


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Doctor Gambles on Clot-Busting Drug to Save Virus Patients - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/04/11/health/ap-us-med-virus-outbreak-clot-buster.html


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Study Leads to New Questions About the Disease Progression of COVID-19 in the Lungs | Mount Sinai Today

https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/study-leads-to-new-questions-about-the-disease-progression-of-covid-19-in-the-lungs/


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Working on coronavirus vaccine trials, Kizzmekia Corbett is 'not your average' scientist

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/scientist-kizzmekia-corbett-leads-way-covid-19-vaccine-trials-dedication-n1181626


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Pharmacologic Treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764727


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Our Pandemic Summer - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/


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5G Wireless Communication and Health Effects—A Pragmatic Review Based on Available Studies Regarding 6 to 100 GHz

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765906/


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Cellular Phones

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phones.html


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5G Network: How It Works, and Is It Dangerous? | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/65959-5g-network.html


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EMF - 5G Explained - How 5G Works

http://www.emfexplained.info/?ID=25916


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Monday, April 13, 2020

Pharmacologic Treatments for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Review | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764727


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Prevent Epidemics |

https://preventepidemics.org/coronavirus/science-review/april-4-10-2020/


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Working on coronavirus vaccine trials, Kizzmekia Corbett is 'not your average' scientist

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/scientist-kizzmekia-corbett-leads-way-covid-19-vaccine-trials-dedication-n1181626


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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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Tips For Talking About The Coronavirus With Friends, Family : NPR

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826612240/how-to-talk-about-the-coronavirus-with-friends-and-family


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Seven-year-old Greek piano prodigy pens an 'isolation waltz' | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/seven-year-old-greek-piano-prodigy-pens-an-isolation-waltz


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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Thread by @ASlavitt: Update COVID April 9: The big conversation is around the 60,000 death toll model so I had confidential conversations with the modelers. Can…

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1248362891201392640.html?refreshed=1586483912


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Thread by @JDVance1: I’ve been reading a lot of the contrarian (primarily from fellow righties) COVID19 opinions, and I wanted to work through them in good faith…

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1247727105867210756.html


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Can your pet get Covid-19? Study reveals risks for cats and dogs

https://www.inverse.com/science/pets-covid-19


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Voting

https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2020-04/AAAS%20EPI%20Center%20group%20letters%20on%20internet%20voting_0.pdf

Covid-19 link to 5G technology fueled by coordinated effort | The Star Online

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2020/04/09/covid-19-link-to-5g-technology-fueled-by-coordinated-effort


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The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Nature Medicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9


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The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Novel 2019 coronavirus / nCoV-2019 Evolutionary History - Virological

http://virological.org/t/the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/398


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A Primer On and Conversation About the Biology and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the Virus That Causes Covid-19 | Applied Ecology | NC State University

https://cals.ncsu.edu/applied-ecology/news/a-primer-on-and-conversation-about-the-biology-and-evolution-of-sars-cov-2-the-virus-that-causes-covid-19/


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Response to “On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2” - Novel 2019 coronavirus / nCoV-2019 Genomic Epidemiology - Virological

http://virological.org/t/response-to-on-the-origin-and-continuing-evolution-of-sars-cov-2/418


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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10965.pdf

The Coronavirus’s Weak Spots - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/04/what-coronavirus-drug-will-look-like/609661/


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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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Researchers Look At How The Coronavirus Is Mutating — And Possible Consequences : Goats and Soda : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/25/820998549/the-coronavirus-is-mutating-but-that-may-not-be-a-problem-for-humans


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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.html


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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/27/15701708/voting-by-mail

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/27/15701708/voting-by-mail


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CDC begins studies for more precise count of undetected Covid-19 cases

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/04/cdc-launches-studies-to-get-more-precise-count-of-undetected-covid-19-cases/


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Mechanism of action of hydroxychloroquine as an antirheumatic drug. - PubMed - NCBI

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278823


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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Tissue distribution of ACE2 protein, the functional receptor for SARS coronavirus. A first step in understanding SARS pathogenesis. - PubMed - NCBI

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15141377


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Scientists figure out how new coronavirus breaks into human cells | Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/how-coronavirus-infects-cells.html


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A Most American Terrorist: The Making Of Dylann Roof | GQ

https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist


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What do we know about the risk of dying from COVID-19? - Our World in Data

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-mortality-risk


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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.

Read in SCIENMAG: https://apple.news/AseZW0HslTPGVMz_Qs6IS8w


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A national COVID-19 surveillance system: Achieving containment | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/a-national-covid-19-surveillance-system-achieving-containment/


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Friday, April 03, 2020

Lukas Nelson Shares John Prine Cover

https://www.jambase.com/article/lukas-nelson-john-prine-cover


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Flagstaff Medical Center coping with rising number of COVID-19 cases in Northern Arizona | FOX 10 Phoenix

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/flagstaff-medical-center-coping-with-rising-number-of-covid-19-cases-in-northern-arizona


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Dr. Fauci dishes on Trump, calls for much longer travel restrictions - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/candid-talk-dr-fauci-future-restrictions-white-house/story?id=69901189


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Why The Internet Didn’t Break—But It Still Failed Millions - Lawfare

Credit is due to the nation's broadband providers

https://www.lawfareblog.com/why-internet-didnt-break-it-still-failed-millions


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Coronavirus Update: FDA Will Now Allow KN95 Masks For Emergency Use

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/in-a-reversal-fda-now-fully-approves-kn95-masks-for


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Our COVID-19 forecasting model, otherwise known as “the Chris Murray Model” | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

http://www.healthdata.org/acting-data/our-covid-19-forecasting-model-otherwise-known-chris-murray-model


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Explore Map – Natural Atlas

https://naturalatlas.com/map/@36.403358,-111.868629,14z


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COVID-19

https://covid19.healthdata.org/


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Thursday, April 02, 2020

Tiger King Joe Exotic and His American Animals

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/joe-exotic-and-his-american-animals.html


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‘Tiger King’: What to Read if You’re Obsessed With the Netflix Series - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/television/netflix-tiger-king-recaps.html


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Coronavirus Models Aren't Supposed to Be Right - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/coronavirus-models-arent-supposed-be-right/609271/


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Global Progress on COVID-19 Serology-Based Testing

http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/COVID-19/Serology-based-tests-for-COVID-19.html


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Exclusive: The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/


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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



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Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Ten Weeks to Crush the Curve | NEJM

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2007263?query=TOC


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Sade, Too: A New Moment for a Complex Monster - Los Angeles Review of Books

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sade-too-a-new-moment-for-a-complex-monster/


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Take A Thrilling Road Trip To The 10 Most Abandoned Places In Arizona

https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/arizona/az-abandoned-road-trip/


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From the dark end of the street | Dominic Minghella

https://www.minghella.com/from-the-dark-end-of-the-street/


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Seeing the COVID-19 Crisis Is Like Watching a Time Lapse of Climate Change. Will the Right Lessons Be Learned? | Opinion


Watching the COVID-19 outbreak unfold is like watching a time lapse of the climate change crisis. As with climate change, our response to COVID-19 requires intellectual humility. We must take the warnings and recommendations of science seriously; in both cases lives depend upon informed responses. In both cases, disinformation and doomism go hand in hand. What we do now necessarily will mitigate or exacerbate both crises.

https://www.newsweek.com/fake-news-climate-change-coronavirus-time-lapse-1495603


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FCC sets 6GHz Wi-Fi vote for April 23, opening door to Wi-Fi 6E | VentureBeat

https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/01/fcc-sets-6ghz-wi-fi-vote-for-april-23-opening-door-to-wi-fi-6e/


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Li Wenliang - The Lancet

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30382-2/fulltext


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We Need to Start Planning Ahead to Beat Coronavirus | Time

https://time.com/5811440/behind-coronavirus-start-planning-ahead/


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Terrorism - Our World in Data

Now do terroism
https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism


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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/


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