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Quote by Robert M. Pirsig: “In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any …” | Goodreads
May 3, 2020https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1220283-in-this-chautauqua-i-would-like-not-to-cut-any
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“In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts grown stale and platitudes too often repeated. “What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream. There are eras of human history in which the channels of thought have been too deeply cut and no change was possible, and nothing new ever happened, and “best” was a matter of dogma, but that is not the situation now.
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Fermi Paradox: Where Are the Aliens? | Space
May 3, 2020NYTIMES How Coronavirus Mutates and Spreads
May 3, 2020Can the coronavirus really live for 3 days on plastic? Yes, but it’s complicated.
May 2, 2020QT:{{”
When the scientists placed virus-laden droplets on plastic, they found that half of the virus was gone after about seven hours. Half of what remained was gone after another seven hours, and so on. By the end of Day Two, there was less than 1/100 of the original amount, and after three days the remnants were barely detectable.
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For stainless steel, the half-life for the virus was five or six hours, and for cardboard it was even shorter: less than four hours. “}}
Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error | Science | AAAS
May 2, 2020QT:{{”
Exit strategy
For now, the most likely scenario is one of easing social distancing measures when it’s possible, then clamping down again when infections climb back up, a “suppress and lift” strategy that both Singapore and Hong Kong are pursuing. Whether that approach can strike the right balance between keeping the virus at bay and easing discontent and economic damage remains to be seen.
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Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust, says a path out of the dilemma now facing the world will come from research. It might take the form of an effective treatment for severely ill patients, or a drug that can prevent infections in health care workers,
or—ultimately—a vaccine. “Science is the exit strategy,” Farrar says. “}}
