This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

This is long, dense, and excellent article:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ Article author: "Zeynep Tufekci is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and an associate professor at the University of North Carolina. She studies the interaction between digital technology, artificial intelligence, and society." Here is my executive summary with a few observations of my own. Coronavirus spreads not linearly/deterministically … Continue reading This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

Review of Moby Dick: Queequeg was George Washington canniballistically developed.

My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3447153622 Other poets have warbled the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lovely plumage of the bird that never alights; less celestial, I celebrate a tail. ... In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes. At its utmost … Continue reading Review of Moby Dick: Queequeg was George Washington canniballistically developed.

Plate Tectonics of Southern California

I recently moved to south Palm Springs (Indian Canyons). It turns out that within about a 2 hour drive, one can see almost every type of geological process, including most types of faults, and almost every age of rock. All because of the unique collision of 3 continental plates in what is now Coachella Valley.

GOP project of governing from the minority continues unchecked

The GOP project of governing from the minority continues unchecked by the majority. A president who came in second in the vote of citizens gets his historically unpopular judge approved by senators who represent 44% of our population, with senators representing 56% of our population finding Judge Kavanaugh unfit for the highest court. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/06/senators-representing-less-than-half-us-are-about-confirm-nominee-opposed-by-most-americansContinue reading GOP project of governing from the minority continues unchecked