The Financial Times has a bunch of COVID-19 graphs in an article. Here is one. Note the blue, ‘Washington state’, now recording 50 daily deaths. What does the Washington state government site say? Well, that is curious. Washington state has never had a daily death count above 20. Is the
Let’s suppose that CO2 actually does control the average global temperature. It would thus be critical that the whole carbon cycle was extremely well understood in order for climate models to be accurate in their prediction of how mankind’s puny CO2 outputs are going to affect the future
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? This time we are off to
Those of us who are old enough can remember back to the 1980s when rare infections that typically only occurred in people with very weak immune systems started killing a growing number of young, otherwise healthy patients. Ultimately the US CDC began investigating. By 1983 the medical community had found
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? Today’s tour is of the
Antibodies to ‘neutralize’ novel coronavirus before it invades cells? University of Toronto researcher Sachdev Sidhu and his collaborators are engineering antibody molecules that can neutralize the novel coronavirus in the body before it invades cells. […] “With our two funded projects, we are working to develop molecules that can target the
It is very interesting to watch the ‘single-use’ plastic bag becoming a warrior in the war on COVID-19. Here among the sensible folk at The BFD it has always been a given that reusable shopping bags were a health hazard. Never more so than now. New York San Francisco Massachusetts
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? Today’s tour is of the
We were told that refrigerant gases and CFCs and spray cans and stuff were all terribly bad because they caused a huge hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic. So all the non-patented gases were banned and we all had to change to newly invented and patented (more expensive)
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place, maybe it was on your bucket list? Today’s tour is of the Guggenheim
As we are all confined to barracks, it is a great opportunity to try new things. How about a virtual tour of a world-famous museum or art gallery? Maybe you have already visited this place or maybe it was on your bucket list? Today’s tour is of the British
Schools use 3D printers to make masks East Lansing Public Schools is using 3D printers to make the much needed N-95 masks doctors say help protect those treating people with coronavirus. The 3-D printers at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing are going around the clock, making medical masks to
3D door handles As the world continues to face the coronavirus disease pandemic through social-distancing, self-quarantine and repeated cleaning of surfaces and hands, opening doors to hospitals, grocery stores, medical facilities, airports and a few other locations is still necessary. People are wearing gloves or using plastic bags to open
We are now all in lockdown. There may be items we can not obtain, there are things we cannot do, there are places we cannot go. But there are also some positives. Please feel free to add to the list of things I am not missing. eXtinction Rebellion idiocy. Skool
Bring out the robots Given, the extremely contagious nature of COVID-19, it is very hard to directly attend to patients and potential cases without protective clothing. With this in mind, researchers at the Tsinghua University in China claim to have created a robot that can aid doctors in such scenarios.
Courtesy of the entrenched Trump Derangement Syndrome in one of their opinion writers, Bryan Gould, Kiwis are being fed lies by the NZ Herald, again. I am not easily shocked – and certainly not when it comes to anything to do with Donald Trump. But I confess that I was shocked
