Click Here to Read: China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia: Its financial markets may be even more dangerous than its wildlife markets By Walter Russell Mead in the Washington Post on February 3, 2020. Chinese Flay Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Taking on the Great Mathematical Conjectures
The Coronavirus Didn’t Cause This Crisis by Itself. McKinsey Helped
China’s cases of Covid-19 are finally declining. A WHO expert explains why
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.
Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready
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.”
Visualizing the History of Pandemics
Outside the Lines Sports Commentary Continuuuuuuuuuuuuuues…. Pronouncement made at the American Academy of Neurology*
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*