Adrienne Jones

@babytoolkit
82 Followers
113 Following
176 Posts

geek, mom, (good) troublemaker; she/her #StillMasking

Projects:
Baby Toolkit: Parenting Gone Geek;
board game podcaster @GreatBigTable

American Identity in Crisis
#video #transcript #cspan
Spread the Vote + Project ID founder Kat Calvin chronicled her work to help Americans without #IDs obtain the necessary #documents they need to live, work, and #vote.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?531272-4/american-identity-crisis

@wayword In 2017, you recommended an amazing thesaurus for my then third grader. 4 years later, she got the Oxford Dictionary of Etymology per your recommendation. Today, I get to surprise her with a second hand Compact OED! Thanks for the show (and the excellent book recommendations)!

By Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

One of the most important myth-busting deep-dives I've ever done.

What was the real impact of Covid school closures?
Were they avoidable?
Did they cause 'learning loss' & mental health decline?
What's the impact of Covid on kids' health?

Please do watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5xyGdVfvo&list=PLDIVi-vBsOExSEL5CAZ7q7KLi-Q7EU2Ax&index=3&ab_channel=MSNBC

Twitter source: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1695136482082566255

@GreatBigTable thanks! @AnneNahm missed you since the twitterpocalypse.

Want to see what a CO2 chart for an office meeting with about 12 people for one hour looks like? We start with excellent indoor air quality at 9am with 500ppm of CO2.

After one hour in a poorly ventilated space, the CO2 readings are 1720ppm! And this is a fairly spacious office that would have a bit of air reservoir to slow down the rise in CO2 levels.

Yikes! This means everyone is breathing quite a bit out of each other's lungs. If you're only going to wear a mask in the riskiest situations, this should be one of them.

Keep in mind that just having high CO2 concentrations doesn't mean much unless someone is contagious in the room, but if there was someone contagious that day, lots of people in that meeting would have gotten whatever was being passed into the air be it Covid, flu, RSV, or a cold.

#aranet4 #co2 #covid

@GreatBigTable When he renamed it, he left the e off ex.
"It might be tempting to believe that the impact of culture wars is limited to policy decisions...data show otherwise. The culture wars directly affect our health and mortality, and that of our children who have little say in these matters." More: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3905737-early-deaths-are-skyrocketing-culture-wars-are-part-of-the-problem/
Are culture wars costing lives?

Whereas it might be tempting to believe that the impact of culture wars is limited to policy decisions related to ideology and morality, data show otherwise.

The Hill
Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles in elementary grades & restrict instruction on human sexuality to grades 6-12. More: https://www.startribune.com/florida-may-ban-girls-period-talk-in-elementary-grades/600260014/?refresh=true
Florida may ban girls' period talk in elementary grades

Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.

Star Tribune
Discord is getting in on the "AI" trend with testing of new features utilizing user data scraping, potentially for training a large language model. To disable the only settings which might affect your data being utilized for this, go to the Privacy & Safety section of your Settings. From there, toggle off both "Use data to improve Discord" and "Use data to customize my Discord experience."