https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/health/coronavirus-uk-variant.html
Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests – The New York Times
December 23, 2020The 10 Best Books of 2020 – WSJ
December 23, 2020Calls for national lockdown in England to curb spread of new Covid strain | Politics | The Guardian
December 22, 2020Pollsters disappear in Georgia with Senate on the line – POLITICO
December 22, 2020BBC Media Request = Data Sanitisation
December 22, 2020The Naked Scientists
Data sanitisation tool plugs privacy gap
Functional genomics data is vulnerable to de-anonymising attacks… 17 December 2020
Interview with
Mark Gerstein, Yale University
Part of the show RNA Vaccines, Privacy, and Penguins
part of the Naked Genetics podcast, on all podcast platforms and o
site here: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/naked-genetics/rna-vaccines-privacy-and-penguins
direct link: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/data-sanitisation-tool-plugs-privacy-gap
Monday night
December 21, 2020QT:{{”
For the past year, Jupiter and Saturn have been dancing ever closer in the night sky. On the evening of Dec. 21, the very nadir of winter, they will be so close — one-tenth of one angular degree — that if your eyes are as bad as mine, they will appear as one blurry, bright planet. With a little optical aid you should be able to discern them as separate orbs, almost kissing, although Jupiter will be 450 million miles in front of the ringed Saturn.
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Go out and look southwest in the hour after sunset. According to astronomers, the two planets have not appeared this close to each other in the sky since 1623 — but the sun’s glare then would have rendered them invisible. To find a conjunction that humans could see, you must skip all the way back to 1226, or ahead to March 15, 2080. You might wonder who will be around to witness that event
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/science/christmas-star-jupiter-saturn-conjunction.html This Solstice, Solace for the Darkness
A rare conjunction of planets serves as a reminder that there is more to the universe than just ourselves.
How to watch tonight’s ‘great conjunction’ of Jupiter and Saturn https://www.livescience.com/how-to-watch-great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn.html
visible near the horizon
