Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’

Intermittent fasting doesn’t help weight loss: UCSF study

November 11, 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/intermittent-fasting-doesnt-help-weight-loss-ucsf-study.html

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? To Shoo Away Flies. – The Atlantic

November 11, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/why-do-zebras-have-stripes-flies/583114/

What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?

November 11, 2020

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/eaam9744

Opinion | You’re Probably Inhaling Microplastics Right Now – The New York Times

November 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/plastic-air-pollution.html

You’re Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings – Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

November 11, 2020

https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/you-re-right-you-are-working-longer-and-attending-more-meetings

Give These Apps Some Notes and They’ll Write Emails for You | WIRED

November 8, 2020

https://www.othersideai.com/
https://magicemail.io/

https://www.wired.com/story/give-apps-notes-they-write-emails

Tests Show Genetic Signature of Coronavirus That Likely Infected Trump – The New York Times

November 7, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/science/trump-covid-19-genome.html

When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s passport number

October 5, 2020

this is quite interesting privacy leak

https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

How to Keep the Coronavirus at Bay Indoors – The New York Times

October 4, 2020

thought this was useful…

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Tips for dodging the virus as Americans retreat from colder weather: Open the windows, buy an air filter — and forget the UV lights. …
For a classroom or office, a portable air cleaner suited to the room’s size “is a great low-cost plug-and-play strategy to give you several air changes per hour of clean air,” Dr. Allen said. These are compact devices that can be plugged into any outlet; effective models are available for less than $200.
Some people mistakenly think that the average air filter, portable or part of a larger system, is no match for the microscopic virus. But “the virus is not naked in the air,” Dr. Marr said. “It comes out in respiratory droplets.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/health/coronavirus-transmission-indoors.html

Wearing a mask but not covering your nose? You’re doing it all wrong | The Star

October 3, 2020

anosmia & sniff tests

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/09/26/wearing-a-mask-but-not-covering-your-nose-youre-doing-it-all-wrong.html

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While it’s well established that the primary way people get infected with COVID-19 is from inhaling aerosol droplets, Kennedy said there is emerging evidence it’s “a lot easier” for the virus to get a grip on our internal system when it enters through the nasal passage versus the mouth.

That’s because the nasal passage tissue is rich in cells that have a certain receptor the virus attaches to.

“There’s more cells in the upper airway in the nasal passages that have high levels of receptor expression,” Kennedy explained. “So the virus is more likely to find the cell to infect, and it’s easier for the virus to infect cells sort of in the upper airway in the nasal passages than it is down in the lungs.”
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It’s evident the nose and our sense of smell hold many answers to understanding COVID-19. It’s now clear a loss of sense of smell, known as anosmia, is one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19. Valentina Parma, chair of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research, said her organization’s data seems to show that anosmia is a better indicator of COVID-19 than fever.

For this reason, she’s an advocate of objective tests to measure sense of smell, such as sniff tests. To that end, her organization has developed an online smell and sniff test which can be completed by people by using scents in their own home, such as banana or shampoo. “}}