November 30, 2020 Monday
The Thanksgiving weekend was a mixed affair. Unfettered by the holiday's social norms, I was free to organize, unpack, upgrade, and avoid the news. But, the cost was high. In addition to outdoor lighting, I am now discouraged from speaking about wire metal shelving, wifi-enabled light switches, turducken, collective nouns, or podcasts about history. Limiting conversation topics is, in my opinion, a mistake for more-or-less home-bound people. My kids are still up for discussing Sci-fi fan videos on YouTube, but conversing with my wife may devolve into reading aloud other people's tweets. Depending on other's 240-character quippy snark is not going to be easy. How can I use other's words to explore my obsessive tendencies to use shelving and lighting as a means of coping with a chaotic world?
-----Latest Data---
I noted several news outlets were commenting on dropping numbers of new cases and deaths in the US and UK. I hope the reduction is sustained and not an artifact of reporting lulls.
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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Here is my favorite article from the weekend, via a loyal reader. Neuroscience researcher Kate Petrova posted data demonstrating a correlation between a drop in the ratings of scented candles on Amazon and the rise of COVID prevalence. Maybe unrelated, but it is sure curious.
https://twitter.com/kate_ptrv/status/1332398737604431874
Article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/covid-candles-reviews-smell-b1763214.html
I found this pre-release (not yet peer-reviewed) article correlating a university's presence in a rural community as a driver of COVID infections, starting with returning to campus in the late summer.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.25.20238642v1.full.pdf+html
Here is a pre-release article more rigorously classifying the symptoms of the "post-COVID" syndrome in college-aged adults.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.24.20238261v2.full.pdf+html
I, again, implore you to read ER doctor @Cleavon_MD's Twitter feed. Lots of anecdotal data illustrating what the front line of healthcare looks like in hospitals.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD
STAT news offered an update on the FDA and CDC deliberations regarding who will get the initial doses of the COVID vaccine.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/30/divisions-emerge-among-u-s-officials-over-when-first-covid-19-vaccine-doses-will-be-available-and-for-whom/
And because I have a platform for sharing healthcare information, I am sneaking in a general medical education item. I found this fantastic tweetorial by a social media doc and hospitalist that reviews the history of using intravenous calcium to stabilize the heart muscle when the body's potassium level gets dangerously elevated. (A problem we kidney doctors aid sick, hospitalized patients with.) It is an excellent physiology review and an interesting history of science piece. And, Dr. Ringer (of Ringer's lactate fame) has a cameo.
https://twitter.com/tony_breu/status/1332717836213628938?s=10
Infographic(s) of the day: Microexpressions.
I am, apparently, making that face.
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/masks/
https://microexpression.weebly.com/detection.html
https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/11/13/10130/machine-vision-algorithm-learns-to-recognize-hidden-facial-expressions/
---Bonus Round - Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
Amongst the various activist-artists of the 20th century, Arlo Guthrie often comes to mind. While not quite the vehement songs of Neil Young, CCR, or Bob Dylan, Alice's Restaurant Massacree is a good example of anti-establishment folk music. I still hear it on the radio this time of year. I was not aware of the back story but found this article over the weekend.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/21/18104601/alices-restaurant-arlo-guthrie-thanksgiving
If you have 30 minutes today, I strongly advise you to check out the LA Review of Books article reviewing "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish." I have not yet read the book, but the review touches on several fascinating topics, including the intertwining of politics, religion, and language amongst immigrant and 1st generation European Jews and the pervasiveness of Yiddish in American culture. The article addresses one of my favorite topics - how ideas are shaped by language and vice-versa.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-undying-half-life-of-yiddish/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
The Thanksgiving weekend was a mixed affair. Unfettered by the holiday's social norms, I was free to organize, unpack, upgrade, and avoid the news. But, the cost was high. In addition to outdoor lighting, I am now discouraged from speaking about wire metal shelving, wifi-enabled light switches, turducken, collective nouns, or podcasts about history. Limiting conversation topics is, in my opinion, a mistake for more-or-less home-bound people. My kids are still up for discussing Sci-fi fan videos on YouTube, but conversing with my wife may devolve into reading aloud other people's tweets. Depending on other's 240-character quippy snark is not going to be easy. How can I use other's words to explore my obsessive tendencies to use shelving and lighting as a means of coping with a chaotic world?
-----Latest Data---
I noted several news outlets were commenting on dropping numbers of new cases and deaths in the US and UK. I hope the reduction is sustained and not an artifact of reporting lulls.
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.
-----
Here is my favorite article from the weekend, via a loyal reader. Neuroscience researcher Kate Petrova posted data demonstrating a correlation between a drop in the ratings of scented candles on Amazon and the rise of COVID prevalence. Maybe unrelated, but it is sure curious.
https://twitter.com/kate_ptrv/status/1332398737604431874
Article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/covid-candles-reviews-smell-b1763214.html
I found this pre-release (not yet peer-reviewed) article correlating a university's presence in a rural community as a driver of COVID infections, starting with returning to campus in the late summer.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.25.20238642v1.full.pdf+html
Here is a pre-release article more rigorously classifying the symptoms of the "post-COVID" syndrome in college-aged adults.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.24.20238261v2.full.pdf+html
I, again, implore you to read ER doctor @Cleavon_MD's Twitter feed. Lots of anecdotal data illustrating what the front line of healthcare looks like in hospitals.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD
STAT news offered an update on the FDA and CDC deliberations regarding who will get the initial doses of the COVID vaccine.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/30/divisions-emerge-among-u-s-officials-over-when-first-covid-19-vaccine-doses-will-be-available-and-for-whom/
And because I have a platform for sharing healthcare information, I am sneaking in a general medical education item. I found this fantastic tweetorial by a social media doc and hospitalist that reviews the history of using intravenous calcium to stabilize the heart muscle when the body's potassium level gets dangerously elevated. (A problem we kidney doctors aid sick, hospitalized patients with.) It is an excellent physiology review and an interesting history of science piece. And, Dr. Ringer (of Ringer's lactate fame) has a cameo.
https://twitter.com/tony_breu/status/1332717836213628938?s=10
Infographic(s) of the day: Microexpressions.
I am, apparently, making that face.
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/masks/
https://microexpression.weebly.com/detection.html
https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/11/13/10130/machine-vision-algorithm-learns-to-recognize-hidden-facial-expressions/
---Bonus Round - Post-Thanksgiving Roundup
Amongst the various activist-artists of the 20th century, Arlo Guthrie often comes to mind. While not quite the vehement songs of Neil Young, CCR, or Bob Dylan, Alice's Restaurant Massacree is a good example of anti-establishment folk music. I still hear it on the radio this time of year. I was not aware of the back story but found this article over the weekend.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/21/18104601/alices-restaurant-arlo-guthrie-thanksgiving
If you have 30 minutes today, I strongly advise you to check out the LA Review of Books article reviewing "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish." I have not yet read the book, but the review touches on several fascinating topics, including the intertwining of politics, religion, and language amongst immigrant and 1st generation European Jews and the pervasiveness of Yiddish in American culture. The article addresses one of my favorite topics - how ideas are shaped by language and vice-versa.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-undying-half-life-of-yiddish/
Clean hands and sharp minds,
Adam
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