By popular request, today we’re going to talk about oaths. Oaths appear a lot in fantasy fiction – and even in historical fiction – and they are frequently done wrong. I remarked …

Schools across the U.S. have been shut down since early March as a prevention measure to slow the spread of coronavirus.

We just had a huge shift from people eating out to eating in, and now a lot more people are baking, so we and a lot of people I know have had trouble finding grocery stores with flour in stock. The residential supply chain is struggling to keep up with demand.…

Background Treatments are urgently needed to prevent respiratory failure and deaths from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has received worldwide attention because of positive results from small studies.

Methods We used data collected…

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It is urgent to understand the future of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission. We used estimates of seasonality, immunity, and cross-immunity for betacoronaviruses OC43 and HKU1 from time series data from the USA to inform…

I’m no stranger to forced isolation. For the better part of my 20s, I served as a nuclear submarine officer running secret missions…

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The circumstances of homelessness create the potential for rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in this vulnerable population. Upon observing a cluster of COVID-19 cases from a single large homeless shelter in Boston, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program…

I've been fortunate in my career to be part of organizations that have always constantly pushed me. When I started with the company I'm…

Brian Levy loved science as a kid. He had a microscope, read up on stuff in the encyclopedia and messed around with home experiment kits. During his high school years, he took every science credit possible. By his own admission, he was a “geek,” one with…

A possible treatment for COVID-19, heavily touted by U.S. President Donald Trump in recent weeks, has been withdrawn from high-dose use in a Brazilian trial because it was feared to be having adverse effects on patients’ hearts.

Time for another look at the coronavirus vaccine front, since we have several recent news items. Word has come from GSK and Sanofi that they are going to collaborate on vaccine development, which brings together two of the more experienced large organizations…

While wealthy Americans are not eligible for the $1,200 stimulus checks being disbursed to many Americans, they are on pace to do even better. 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall on average…

People often ask what is faster, Elasticache, Redis, or KeyDB. With Redis 6 on the horizon with multithreaded io, we felt it was a good time to do a full comparison! This blog compares single node performance of Elasticache, open source KeyDB, and open source…

Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected.

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Here is a theoretical question - one that doesn't afford an easy answer in any case, not even the trivial one.

In Conway's Game of Life, there exist constructs such as the metapixel which allow th...