#Circulation

“Are either/both more transmissible? I don't think we know for sure yet, but scientists in the UK seem to believe there are indicators of increased transmission in that variant. We
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Bon, sans être scientifique, voila ce que j'ai lu sur le développement des vaccins et sa vitesse (sorry @lalibrebe pour le spoiler mais ce genre d'info devrait être d'intérêt public.
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First talk by Dr. Ian Smith on white lies. #RaceB4Race Quoting Glaude & Kincaid, the lies of erasure of the treatment of Black Americans and the importance of white people,
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Researchers were able to keep human lungs alive (and viable for transplant) by hooking them up to pigs.http://read.medium.com/CbB3g7Y  Donated lungs have a short shelf life. After they’re removed from a
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I wrote the Mask Policy for a local school. Including how to frame it positively for Parents & Kids. Following is the crux in
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Summary of ‘Naturally mutated spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 variants show 2 differential levels of cell entry’ preprint by Ozono et al., 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.15.151779Disclaimer: This summary is shared as a first-time
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Yes, digging into the new Nature hurricane paper. Some interesting findings for sure! The data is freely available in a handy Excel spreadsheet so the first thing to do is
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Pour les francophones qui se demandent... le #silversqueeze c'est quoi ? (thread) Un "short squeeze" , c'est quand le nombre de titres d'une action (ou 'importe quel autre actif) en
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In January 1919 a new magazine heralded the dawn of the Weimar era. Its aesthetic was a kind of demented Jugendstil, and its stories were dark gothic fantasies.This is the
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Fun Friday thread: Ever since Tribune Publishing agreed to be acquired for $630m this week, chatter has resurfaced surrounding the motives of Alden Capital, the mysterious hedge fund behind the
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[A THREAD] EMS: It's A System - 29 years ago this month, I ran my first 911 call as a paramedic. The month before, I had graduated with the other
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With stock markets all-time high, are we in a bubble?The following chart suggests we might NOT be.(a short thread explaining why) 1/ What I did to investigate this was to
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Back in April, Xi Jinping gave a (just released) speech about his "dual circulation" plan for China's economy:* stimulating consumer spending and reducing China's dependence on trade, and * increasing
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Wittegenstein said that all problems in philosophy are mere problems of language. This is not true, but certainly many problems can be reduced to that. In particular, most problems in
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Live from arXiv, it's our new review paper, "Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres" by yours truly, @StellarPlanet, @Of_FallingStars, and @V_Parmentier, to be published in the special exoplanets edition of @jgrplanets! https://arx
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South African science was crucial in helping UK discover its new variants; but then the UK govt claimed (wrongly) that the SA variant is more transmissible. No evidence to support
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