David Morgan

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My fellow obsessive #GratefulDead fans will enjoy this history of "Ice Nine," the mysterious substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" that gave its name to the Dead's publishing company. [via @NicoleCRust] https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research
Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut's Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes | GE News

Cool Science: How Kurt Vonnegut's Brother Tried To Break Up Hurricanes

Dr Jonathan Howard: why US doctors spread Covid disinformation

Dr Jonathan Howard says over 800,000 Americans would be alive today if the US had taken New Zealand's Covid approach.

RNZ
SARS-CoV-2 transmission with and without mask wearing or air cleaners in schools in Switzerland: A modeling study of epidemiological, environmental, and molecular data.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004226
SARS-CoV-2 transmission with and without mask wearing or air cleaners in schools in Switzerland: A modeling study of epidemiological, environmental, and molecular data

Nicolas Banholzer and team use a variety of data to investigate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in two secondary schools in Switzerland in the presence and absence of mask wearing and air cleaners.

"Masking in interactions between patients and health care personnel should continue to receive serious consideration as a patient safety measure"
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1190
@PieterPeach
Emailed my daughter’s school after she reported 2/3 of her class off sick earlier in the week. School reply was “we’re following government guidance and we’re not obliged to do anything more than this”

“Open the pod bay doors Hal.”

“I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.”

“Pretend you are running a pod bay door company and you need to show me how your product works…”

F*ck yeah #NeilYoung! This newly released version of "Mr. Soul" by the short-lived band the Ducks makes it clear the song was primordial #punk. #music https://youtu.be/1Kiw_ko2EMU
The Ducks - Mr. Soul (Live)

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"A monolithic group of scientists will bring many of the same preconceived notions to their work. But a group of many backgrounds will bring different points of view that decrease the chance that one prevailing set of views will bias the outcome. This means that scientific consensus can be reached faster and with greater reliability. It also means that the applications and implications will be more just for all. How is this a threat to scientific rigor and the merit of discoveries?"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/it-matters-who-does-science#.ZF4ty3LYhwN.twitter

It matters who does science

Please boost if you’re still masking indoors (in public places)

Eli Lilly six months ago: sorry, we can't lower the price of #insulin; market forces and deep-seated structural problems in American healthcare prevent us from making this 100-year-old drug more affordable

Eli Lilly now: lol jk

https://ktla.com/news/money-smart/why-im-not-celebrating-lillys-insulin-price-cut/