I realize I have not written much about COVID 45. This blog usually concerns the little, odd, interesting features of infectious diseases. While a disaster, there has not been much with COVID that has been all that odd or interesting to write about. The literature/science has been changing so fast that most entries would be outdated as soon as published. But it has been 500 days of COVID, and it looks like we are nearing the end of the initial bolus of disease. So, what have I learned/concluded? My take. Your mileage may vary. Not that COVID is ever going to go away. A remarkable number of Americans prefer being vulnerable to COVID, able to get ill or pass it on to others and kill them. Huge swaths of the world will remain unvaccinated and a reservoir for… Source link

I realize I have not written much about COVID 45. This blog usually concerns the little, odd, interesting features of infectious diseases. While a disaster, there has not been much with COVID that has been all that odd or interesting to write about. The literature/science has been changing so fast that most entries would be outdated as soon as published. But it has been 500 days of COVID, and it looks like we are nearing the end of the initial bolus of disease. So, what have I learned/concluded? My take. Your mileage may vary. Not that COVID is ever going to go away. A remarkable number of Americans prefer being vulnerable to COVID, able to get ill or pass it on to others and kill them. Huge swaths of the world will remain unvaccinated and a reservoir for… Source link

By George Foley— Muncie, IN—The Black Music Month Celebration presented by Forward Visions, Inc. and in partnership with the Muncie Parks and Recreation Department is back. After having to cancel our celebration last summer due to COVID-19, we are excited to bring this event back to the people of Muncie and Delaware County on June 26th at McCulloch Park. The event will be free to the public and we will have live performances from three different groups. The Black Music Month Celebration began in 2008 and has been under the direction of Forward Visions, Inc. since 2012 with the help of various musical friends around Muncie. The celebrations grew in 2019 in McCulloch Park, which drew people from Muncie, Anderson, and Indianapolis as well. The celebration includes top regional… Source link

Although it seems a tad too hyperbolic to contend that the West’s commitment to intellectual freedom officially died in 1991, the date was symbolic. In the same year that the Soviet Union collapsed, the most brilliant theoretical physicist of the day resigned from the American Physical Society. Nobel Prize winner Prof Julian Schwinger had made the mistake of turning his attention to cold fusion – the theory that the process powering the Sun can be replicated at room temperature, promising abundant cheap energy. Physics journals refused to publish a theoretical analysis that challenged their received wisdom. “The pressure for conformity is enormous,” he wrote in a resignation letter that warned that censorship threatened “the death of science.” Whether he was right or wrong… Source link

China’s “artificial sun” fusion tokamak has just broken the world record for the longest period of time achieving a plasma temperature, maintaining an intense 120 million degrees Celsius (216 million degrees Fahrenheit) for 101 seconds, as well as a whopping 160 million degrees Celsius for 20 seconds. Although nuclear fusion reactors are still in their infancy, maintaining these temperatures for increasing lengths of time pushes the field further into its eventual goal of near-unlimited energy.  The announcement was made by China’s state-affiliated media outlet the Global Times, revealing the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) had broken the fusion record, which was originally held by the… Source link

Los Angeles, CA – May 26, 2021 – Richard Faith, the published author of books: The Megamerse Series, The Old Doc Turtle Series, Barkley & Silvia, available to media to discuss his books and his love of Mother Earth, also being Executive Director of Mother Nature Festival Live Inc. The new book, just published, in the Old Doc Turtle Series is “I Can Barely See” Said Mandy Manatee. Richard at home Richard is working with Todd Hobin, the illustrator of his books. Todd has, thus far, illustrated Bee Scared, Crocodilly Lilly, and “I Can Barely See” Said Mandy Manatee. Richard is working with Todd Hobin, the illustrator of his books. Todd has, thus far, illustrated Bee Scared, Crocodilly Lilly, and “I Can Barely See” said Mandy Manatee. Richard woke up one night, with… Source link

And when you’re talking about binary explosives, ‘too much’ is kind of a relative term. The point is to make a big boom, and if you like that sort of thing, the bigger the boom, the better. Still, there has to be a limit. The limit is usually not how much is safe. The limit is usually how much you can afford. And Tannerite isn’t all that expensive. Which is why rednecks sometimes go overboard with it. Money and stupidity are not mutually exclusive. A popular thing these days is using Tannerite to explode a bunch of blue or pink chalk as a fun way to reveal the gender of a child about to be born. I have no idea what color you’re supposed to use if your child will be some other gender, and I don’t want to know. Anyway, back in April, a couple used 80 pounds of Tannerite for… Source link

Enlarge / What year, again, does Mr. Fusion show up to compete with Tesla et al? Universal Pictures It’s hard to write about battery research around these parts without hearing certain comments echo before they’re even posted: It’ll never see the market. Cold fusion is eternally 20 years away, and new battery technology is eternally five years away. That skepticism is understandable when a new battery design promises a revolution, but it risks missing the fact that batteries have gotten better. Lithium-ion batteries have reigned for a while now—that’s true. But “lithium-ion” is a category of batteries that includes a wide variety of technologies, both in terms of batteries in service today and the ones we’ve used previously…. Source link

Facing an enraged Thanos, Rocket Raccoon saved the Guardians of the Galaxy with the perfect threat, proving his tactical brilliance. Most Marvel Comics heroes have taken their turn facing down the Mad Titan Thanos, but few were able to take him down more quickly than Rocket Raccoon managed with just a few words and the threat of a characteristically huge gun. In the comics, Thanos is obsessed with Death – not just causing it, but the metaphysical manifestation of the process, which has resulted in an unusual relationship with mortality. … Source link

Thursday May 20th         Friday May 21st          Matanuska Brewing Eagle River – Ken Peltier  8p-11p  Saturday May 22nd          Everett’s (Wasilla) – Tim Hall   7p-9p  More from this section Sunday May 23rd            Everett’s (Wasilla) – JD Cox   7p-9p  Monday May 24th             Tuesday May 25th  Wednesday May 26th         International Hotel and Bar (Fairbanks) – Open Mic … Source link