Tuesday, November 24, 2020
To make Thanksgiving more interesting, we decided to buy a turducken, something outside the norm of our typical Thanksgiving patterns. Franken-bird arrived yesterday. The delta between what I thought I was getting and what we received was quite striking - ours is boneless, bacon-wrapped, and frozen. After a bit of googling, I understood the depths of my ignorance. You must do your research, define and prioritize your variables, and be open-minded with the results. Turducken, I learned, come in an astonishing number of configurations. Who knew I had options and had to make trade-offs between price, convenience, and diversity of ingredients? A small lesson from an unexpected source.
Variations: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71236/right-stuffing-11-variations-turducken.
By the way, in writing this, I learned the pleural of turducken is turducken. I am not sure what the collective noun is, but I propose massacre. A massacre of turducken.
https://www.jellyfish.com/en-gb/training/blog/collective-nouns
---Latest Data
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=cases
Also, look at https://covidtracking.com/data
The US Regionally - NY. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
About the data:
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/visualization-guide is the best resource to understand data visualization and data integrity.
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The CDC's MMWR published an article that looked at COVID rates in various counties in Kansas before and after a July 3, 2020, Governor-ordered mask mandate. COVID incidence fell in 24 counties with mask mandates and continued to rise in the 81 counties without mask mandates. The data on the value of mask-wearing continues to accumulate.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6947e2.htm?s_cid=mm6947e2_w
According to Gallup, American sentiment toward COVID vaccines is improving. Nothing like a string of positive data and large numbers of test subjects to bolster confidence. The data are what the data are.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/325208/americans-willing-covid-vaccine.aspx
As you debate what to do with your small Thanksgiving gathering (like don't have it), I suggest you share this article on coronavirus spread in small groups. It offers insight into how the population-level dynamics of this holiday favors spread.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-even-a-small-thanksgiving-is-dangerous/
The anti-depressant Fluvoxamine (Luvox- a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI)) enters the panel of drugs with a data signal that points toward COVID protection. Pepcid (the over-the-counter H2 blocker for heartburn) is also one of these drugs. JAMA published this blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 152 patients outpatients, about half of whom were randomly assigned to receive Fluvoxamine within seven days of COVID symptom onset and noted to have a lower than normal oxygen level by pulse ox. Those treated with Fluvoxamine had less likelihood of clinical deterioration vs. those in the placebo group. The trial was small, well designed, and offers some intriguing results. While Fluvoxamine is not as benign as Pepcid (meaning I would not take it based on this data), it indeed points out that there may be medications that can mitigate the severity of COVID symptoms.
Fluvoxamine: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773108
Pepcid data: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88119
Infographic of the day: How to Argue (over Zoom with your crazy uncle)
https://blog.adioma.com/how-to-argue-pg-hierarchy-of-disagreement/
or, if you don't have a crazy uncle, you can pay for an argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
alternatively, you can be the crazy uncle
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/how-to-be-the-crazy-uncle-this-thanksgiving-213397
---Bonus Round - visualized sound
I re-entered the world of cymatics last night thanks to an article on Open Culture about Kanazawa Kenichi. I am a sucker for high school science demonstrations done up for art.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/artist-kenichi-kanazawa-makes-amazing-geometric-designs-out-of-sand.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVERdfEj24&pbjreload=101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJsbhptK0U
And, it gives us all an opportunity to re-watch Nigel Stanford's fantastic video on this topic.
https://vimeo.com/111593305
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
To make Thanksgiving more interesting, we decided to buy a turducken, something outside the norm of our typical Thanksgiving patterns. Franken-bird arrived yesterday. The delta between what I thought I was getting and what we received was quite striking - ours is boneless, bacon-wrapped, and frozen. After a bit of googling, I understood the depths of my ignorance. You must do your research, define and prioritize your variables, and be open-minded with the results. Turducken, I learned, come in an astonishing number of configurations. Who knew I had options and had to make trade-offs between price, convenience, and diversity of ingredients? A small lesson from an unexpected source.
Variations: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71236/right-stuffing-11-variations-turducken.
By the way, in writing this, I learned the pleural of turducken is turducken. I am not sure what the collective noun is, but I propose massacre. A massacre of turducken.
https://www.jellyfish.com/en-gb/training/blog/collective-nouns
---Latest Data
Global-View:
https://www.ft.com/content/a2901ce8-5eb7-4633-b89c-cbdf5b386938
Nationally:
https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&areasRegional=usny&areasRegional=usca&areasRegional=usfl&areasRegional=ustx&areasRegional=usco&cumulative=0&logScale=0&perMillion=1&values=cases
Also, look at https://covidtracking.com/data
The US Regionally - NY. Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
About the data:
https://covidtracking.com/about-data/visualization-guide is the best resource to understand data visualization and data integrity.
----
The CDC's MMWR published an article that looked at COVID rates in various counties in Kansas before and after a July 3, 2020, Governor-ordered mask mandate. COVID incidence fell in 24 counties with mask mandates and continued to rise in the 81 counties without mask mandates. The data on the value of mask-wearing continues to accumulate.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6947e2.htm?s_cid=mm6947e2_w
According to Gallup, American sentiment toward COVID vaccines is improving. Nothing like a string of positive data and large numbers of test subjects to bolster confidence. The data are what the data are.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/325208/americans-willing-covid-vaccine.aspx
As you debate what to do with your small Thanksgiving gathering (like don't have it), I suggest you share this article on coronavirus spread in small groups. It offers insight into how the population-level dynamics of this holiday favors spread.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-even-a-small-thanksgiving-is-dangerous/
The anti-depressant Fluvoxamine (Luvox- a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor or SSRI)) enters the panel of drugs with a data signal that points toward COVID protection. Pepcid (the over-the-counter H2 blocker for heartburn) is also one of these drugs. JAMA published this blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 152 patients outpatients, about half of whom were randomly assigned to receive Fluvoxamine within seven days of COVID symptom onset and noted to have a lower than normal oxygen level by pulse ox. Those treated with Fluvoxamine had less likelihood of clinical deterioration vs. those in the placebo group. The trial was small, well designed, and offers some intriguing results. While Fluvoxamine is not as benign as Pepcid (meaning I would not take it based on this data), it indeed points out that there may be medications that can mitigate the severity of COVID symptoms.
Fluvoxamine: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2773108
Pepcid data: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88119
Infographic of the day: How to Argue (over Zoom with your crazy uncle)
https://blog.adioma.com/how-to-argue-pg-hierarchy-of-disagreement/
or, if you don't have a crazy uncle, you can pay for an argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
alternatively, you can be the crazy uncle
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/how-to-be-the-crazy-uncle-this-thanksgiving-213397
---Bonus Round - visualized sound
I re-entered the world of cymatics last night thanks to an article on Open Culture about Kanazawa Kenichi. I am a sucker for high school science demonstrations done up for art.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/artist-kenichi-kanazawa-makes-amazing-geometric-designs-out-of-sand.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVERdfEj24&pbjreload=101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfJsbhptK0U
And, it gives us all an opportunity to re-watch Nigel Stanford's fantastic video on this topic.
https://vimeo.com/111593305
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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