“[T]he modeling estimated that COVID -19 vaccination [in the
United States] prevented 3.25 million deaths…. Averted hospitalizations
were estimated at 18.6 million…. For infections, the model estimated a
dodge of 119.85 million.”
posted 12/24/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[A] new report published in The Lancet describing 41 early cases in the
outbreak indicate that the earliest identified person sickened had no
epidemiological links to the [Wuhan animal] market.”
(Added November 2022: This was the first thing I posted about the plague, and
the first thing that really made me think it might be something that would
affect my family.)
posted 1/28/2020 10:26pm ∞
“No longer needing to sing at high frequencies that could be heard over the
highway’s rumble, the sparrows’ songs became more expansive, occupying more of
the soundscape’s ‘acoustic bandwidth.’ Even those with quiet voices became
audible; in those first months, ‘you could hear four times as many birds as you
could before,’ says [Professor Elizabeth] Derryberry.”
posted 12/23/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]here’s the uncomfortable fact that producing the 2 megajoules of laser
power that started the fusion reaction took about 300 megajoules of grid
power, so the overall process is nowhere near the break-even point. … [W]e’re
still left with major questions about whether laser-driven fusion can be
optimized enough to be useful.”
posted 12/22/2022 8:00pm ∞
“Matching the density of the two planets produces a model that has a bit over
10 percent of the planet’s mass composed of water. This, however, means
that about half the planet’s volume is water. … Due to the planet’s mass, the
pressure of the atmosphere would be immense and could create a layer of
supercritical water between the atmosphere and the ocean.”
posted 12/20/2022 8:00pm ∞