Click Here to Read: China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why “It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s Covid-19 response By Julia Belluz on the Vox website on March 3, 2020.
2019-nCoV in Greater China by number of cases. Image: 董辰兴 Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to View: Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready Ted Talk from March 2015.
In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now’s the time, Bill Gates suggests, to put all our good ideas into practice, from scenario planning to vaccine research to health worker training. As he says, “There’s no need to panic … but we need to get going.”
In our brain/mind processing of Sports, it would seem we’d be taking a big chunk out of that neuropsychiatric love affair with the discontinuation of March Madness and the NBA schedule.
But continuing with the neuropathological dissection, we are left with bare images of five on five hoop games with no one in the arena!! Of course, such a nightmarish scenario could not be allowed to happen. After all, when you and some pals hit the schoolyard with a big roundball say 40 or 50 years ago, you couldn’t drag anyone to stop watching Leave it to Beaver and stand there watching you and your knucklehead friends.
But of course, you and your silly pals weren’t hitting threes at the rate of 39% or setting heavyweight picks not being 6’10 and 375 (so exciting to see you know). Continue reading Outside the Lines Sports Commentary Continuuuuuuuuuuuuuues…. Pronouncement made at the American Academy of Neurology*
Click Here to Read: Landmark Computer Science Proof Cascades Through Physics and Math: Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics by Kevin Hartnett
on the Quanta Magazine website on March 4, 2020.
Image: GYassineMrabetT. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The race to unravel the United States’ biggest coronavirus outbreak: As cases in Washington state soar, virologists are working around the clock to diagnose cases, reveal routes of transmission and test treatments by Amy Maxmen on the Nature website on March 6, 2020.
Image: CDC. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
