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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to just come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.
~Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to just come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.
~Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
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Policymakers must consider the harms of pandemic policies, not just benefits
Article,
Article,
Boston Review
The Totality of the Evidence
As policymakers debate the right response to COVID-19, they must take seriously the harms of pandemic policies, not just their benefits.
Facebook Knows It Encourages Division. Top Executives Nixed Solutions
Article
Article
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive
The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.
Why Oxytocin Is Incredible and How to Get More of It
Article
Article
Quick and Dirty Tips
Why Oxytocin Is Incredible and How to Get More of It
What is oxytocin?
You know those warm and fuzzy feelings you get when you cuddle a puppy, hug your friend, or kiss your partner? That’s oxytocin at work.
You may already have heard of oxytocin—what people have called the love hormone, cuddle hormone, or…
You know those warm and fuzzy feelings you get when you cuddle a puppy, hug your friend, or kiss your partner? That’s oxytocin at work.
You may already have heard of oxytocin—what people have called the love hormone, cuddle hormone, or…
Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes
Article,
Article,
Quanta Magazine
Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes
Collider physicists report that several measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.
YouTube auto-deletes comments with phrases critical of Chinese government
Article
Article
Ars Technica
YouTube auto-deletes comments with phrases critical of Chinese government [Updated]
"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems," YouTube tells Ars.
Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed Beneath Italian Vineyard
The intricate, multi-colored tiles likely date to the third century A.D.
Article
The intricate, multi-colored tiles likely date to the third century A.D.
Article
Smithsonian Magazine
Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed Beneath Italian Vineyard
The intricate, multi-colored tiles likely date to the third century A.D.
A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as Covid-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks
Article
Article
Scientific American
A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks
A global natural experiment examines the time warp of life under quarantine
Coping with ‘Death Awareness’ in the COVID-19 Era
Article
Article
Scientific American
Coping with ‘Death Awareness’ in the COVID-19 Era
According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions
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Biosecurity for Air Transport
A Roadmap for Restarting Aviation
Passenger contact tracing
We foresee the need to collect more detailed passenger contact information which can be used for tracing purposes.
Where possible, the data should be collected in electronic form, and in advance of the passenger arriving at the airport including through eVisa and electronic travel authorization platforms.
IATA strongly recommends that states set up government internet portals in order to collect the required passenger data. Using internet-based technology would allow the use of a wide range of devices for the data capture (computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc.).
Immunity passports: In principle, we believe that immunity passports could play an important role in further facilitating the restart of air travel. If a passenger could be documented as having recovered from COVID-19 and thus as being immune, they would not need protective measures
Article
Biosecurity for Air Transport
A Roadmap for Restarting Aviation
Passenger contact tracing
We foresee the need to collect more detailed passenger contact information which can be used for tracing purposes.
Where possible, the data should be collected in electronic form, and in advance of the passenger arriving at the airport including through eVisa and electronic travel authorization platforms.
IATA strongly recommends that states set up government internet portals in order to collect the required passenger data. Using internet-based technology would allow the use of a wide range of devices for the data capture (computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc.).
Immunity passports: In principle, we believe that immunity passports could play an important role in further facilitating the restart of air travel. If a passenger could be documented as having recovered from COVID-19 and thus as being immune, they would not need protective measures
Article
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“If you trust in Nature, in the small things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge,
immeasurable;
if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor:
then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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“If you trust in Nature, in the small things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge,
immeasurable;
if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor:
then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which stays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awakeness, and knowledge.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Article
Article
Science
Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Masks and testing are necessary to combat asymptomatic spread in aerosols and droplets
Swarm satellites probe weakening of Earth’s magnetic field
It has been speculated whether the current weakening of the field is a sign that Earth is heading for an eminent pole reversal – in which the north and south magnetic poles switch places. Such events have occurred many times throughout the planet’s history and even though we are long overdue by the average rate at which these reversals take place (roughly every 250 000 years), the intensity dip in the South Atlantic occurring now is well within what is considered normal levels of fluctuations.
The mystery of the origin of the South Atlantic Anomaly has yet to be solved. However, one thing is certain: magnetic field observations from Swarm are providing exciting new insights into the scarcely understood processes of Earth’s interior.
Article
It has been speculated whether the current weakening of the field is a sign that Earth is heading for an eminent pole reversal – in which the north and south magnetic poles switch places. Such events have occurred many times throughout the planet’s history and even though we are long overdue by the average rate at which these reversals take place (roughly every 250 000 years), the intensity dip in the South Atlantic occurring now is well within what is considered normal levels of fluctuations.
The mystery of the origin of the South Atlantic Anomaly has yet to be solved. However, one thing is certain: magnetic field observations from Swarm are providing exciting new insights into the scarcely understood processes of Earth’s interior.
Article
ESA
Swarm probes weakening of Earth’s magnetic field
In an area stretching from Africa to South America, Earth’s magnetic field is gradually weakening. This strange behaviour has geophysicists puzzled and is causing technical disturbances in satellites orbiting Earth. Scientists are using data from ESA’s Swarm…