Posts Tagged ‘x57s’
The long goodbye to covid-19 | The Economist
August 14, 2021https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/07/03/the-long-goodbye-to-covid-19
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“In Britain, where Delta is dominant, the fatality rate if you become infected is now about 0.1%, similar to seasonal flu: a danger, but a manageable one.”
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Liked the “shifts”!
Also, thought the following quote was quite interesting: “In Britain, where Delta is dominant, the fatality rate if you become infected is now about 0.1%, similar to seasonal flu.” So if we get covid & flu shots each year, both diseases will become comparable, in a sense? Mark Gerstein
Learning to Love G.M.O.s – The New York Times
August 7, 2021QT:{{”
In his talk, Baker noted that there are hundreds of kinds of berries in the world. But among those we commonly call berries, we eat just four: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. There’s a reason the other varieties rarely reach us. Sometimes the fruit rots within days after picking (salmonberries), or the plant puts out fruit for only a few weeks in summer (cloudberries)….
Black raspberries, one fruit that Pairwise hopes to bring to market, used to be widely grown in North America, until a virus decimated them. (The red raspberries we eat now originally came from Turkey.) The revived version, which will be in field trials in 2024, has been engineered to be thornless and seedless, while retaining the fruit’s signature jammy flavor.
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The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
July 17, 2021This is the first newspaper article I’ve seen with a *methods* section at the end (which describes how #covid19 death rates could be “adjusted” for vaccine status)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
By Dan Keating and Leslie Shapiro
This story was published a few weeks ago but remains incredibly important as the delta variant spreads throughout the U.S.
The country’s declining covid-19 case rates present an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated.
As more people receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly in the increasingly narrow slice of the unprotected population. So The Washington Post adjusted its case, death and hospitalization rates to account for that — and found that in some places, the virus continues to rage among those who haven’t received a shot. Read more »
How to Spot a Military Impostor | The New Yorker
July 7, 2021U.S. Has No Explanation for U.F.O.s, Does Not Rule Out Aliens – The New York Times
July 1, 2021Found this an amusing & unusual article for @NYTimes. Not sure whether it’s science or fiction – or both. Also, found a related @NewYorker piece useful for background & context
https://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously
How the Pentagon Started Taking U.F.O.s Seriously
For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
https://www.NewYorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously April 30, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-report.html
Couple Who Defaced $400,000 Painting in South Korea Thought It Was a Public Art Project – The New York Times
May 7, 2021Honestly, I’m wondering if this was secretly the intention all along. It’s in a public and high traffic space, paint cans and brushes just laying around, and no security barriers. It’s almost begging for people to mess with it
I agree: perhaps the intent was to appear to invite participation but then, in the end, to reject it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/world/asia/jonone-vandalism-south-korea-art.html
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