There's an argument you see around sometimes about Henry Ford's decision to pay his workers those famed $5 a day wages. It was that he realised that he should pay his workers sufficiently large sums to that they could afford the products they were making.…

I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help.  I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like...

In many authoritarian countries where news sources and books are censored, the video game Minecraft is not

Hi all, I am pleased to announce the first release of Gopcaml-mode, a new emacs library that aims to extend the existing OCaml editing experience with structural editing capabilities. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I’ll cut to the chase, and start…

Vulnerable people should not be exposed to Covid-19 right now in the service of a hypothetical future, says William Hanage, a professor of the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease at Harvard

Costica Bradatan looks back at, and behind, the life and thought of Umberto Eco, who waged a long war against “dietrologia” (“behindology”)....

There's a great NYTimes interactive graphic w/ a slider you can use to model out various assumptions around when social distancing measures are put into place, and how strong they are. That interactive graphic goes hand-in-hand with this FB Post by Jason…

Communist Party's propaganda efforts powerless in face of coronavirus anger

A team of scientists report the cryo-EM structure of the full-length human ACE2 protein—the point of entry for the SARS-CoV-2 virus into human cells.

"The most important thing is to focus on the vulnerable and prioritize their safety," Gov. Gavin Newsom said. 

When coronavirus cases spiked in Lombardy, officials thought they moved quickly—putting 50,000 people in 11 towns under lockdown. But it wasn't nearly enough: two weeks later, when they shut down the entire country, the epidemic was 100 times bigger with…

Interactive notes for algebra-based physics with explorable explanations.

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