tingilinde

greed

Moderna's price increase.

a tip of the hat to Dewayne

 

 

potentially a good book

Pieces like this have been written and talks given, but they never seem to reach the right audiences.  

The first page looks promising..

 

byte!

A repository of old Byte magazines.

 

 

pdp price list

From 1964 ...  one 1964 dollar is nearly worth ten 2022 dollars 

things that make sense that won't happen

Making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.

Along with large companies they co-own Congress so.. no way..

 

 

a style guide for thinking?

We're not there yet, but so many interesting questions lurk

snip

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In the early twenty-tens, a British anthropologist named Andrew Irving went up to about a hundred random New Yorkers and asked them if they’d spend some time saying everything they were thinking into a small voice recorder. “An element of performance might have come into play,” Kross concedes. Still, Irving’s transcripts have the ring of truth. People used their inner voices to muse on attractive strangers and curse the traffic; often, they “dealt with negative ‘content,’ much of which sprang up through associative connections.” One woman says, “I wonder if there’s a Staples around here,” before thinking suddenly about a friend’s cancer diagnosis; she talks to herself about the bad news and then, just as suddenly, gets back on track: “Now, is there a Staples down there? I think there is.” A man reflects on a broken relationship and gives himself encouragement: “Clear, totally clear. Move forward.” It’s easy to get stuck in your loop: monologues can be insistent, and some people succumb to circular, negative inner talk—what Kross calls “chatter”—and end up “desperate to escape their inner voice because of how bad it makes them feel.” One of Irving’s subjects can’t stop wondering if her boyfriend, who is out of town, has died in a bus accident or run off with someone else. Kross tells the story of Rick Ankiel, a baseball player who had to leave pitching for the outfield because his inner voice wouldn’t stop talking about “the individual physical components of his pitching motion.”

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the covid-19 immunology master class

This is good - rom Nature Immunology

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In this regard, having enjoyed a period of détente and mutual respect between scientists and policy makers, we now again face segregation into rival tribes: the short attention spans, COVID-19 revisionism and ‘move along, there’s nothing to see here’ attitude of our global leaders threatens the laser focus that the scientists will need if we are to avoid endemic bedding-in of massively elevated mortality along with a lasting worldwide burden of disability imposed by more than 150 million cases of long COVID. How did ‘endemic’ — the term used in infectious disease to describe our relentless struggle in the relationship with our greatest scourges of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria — come to be re-appropriated to mean some form of victory over COVID-19? If we now meet the COVID challenge poorly and throw in the towel, historians may puzzle over our ineptitude for centuries to come.

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a tip of the hat to Sukie

the ark storm

California flooding pales in comparison to the storms of 1861-1862 ..  the impact of a repeat storm would be enormous. 

Here's a link to a summary of the ARkStorm (Atmospheric River 1000 Storm) conference held about a decade ago.

 

 

 

 

 

computer fan c-r boxes

A few experimenters are noting Corsi-Rosenthal boxes made with multiple computer fans are quieter, per unit of air moved, the the conventional C-R does.  Important in schools and other settings.  An issue is cost.  Here's a place that offers kits and prebuilt units.

 

on singing sand

I've heard examples in California, but not this good