Siberia by itself is 1/12th of the worlds surface area.
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What did you learn today?
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SARS and MERS - what did the earlier epidemics teach us?
Before we had SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has brought us the disease known as Covid-19, we had SARS-CoV-1.
The disease it caused was SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
The outbreak was largely limited to China and Hong Kong and it didn't last long, but there were lessons to be learned.
The disease it caused was SARS - Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
The outbreak was largely limited to China and Hong Kong and it didn't last long, but there were lessons to be learned.
Today I learned that I have cousins freakin' everywhere. Probably even here.
I learned about ripping apples in half. If I ever heard about this before, I forgot.
I also learned that at least to me, Tanzanian Peaberry coffee and McDonald's coffee are not dissimilar. Either they really are similar, or the people I bought Tanzanian Peaberry from just filled it out with McDonald's coffee, which is why it was the cheapest. Hmm.
Stanley Kubrick predicted a Netflix-like system back in 1972:
“Unless a distributor treats a film with utmost contempt, they do at least know how to distribute films. And I can’t really see cassettes radically altering the situation. There will almost certainly have to be standardization and I should imagine the cassette mustn’t cost more than a few dollars — much less than the prices mentioned in the trade press. Something which is liable to have much more of an impact might be color television with the same resolution and sharpness as we now have on film, possibly even three-dimensional holographic presentations distributed via satellites. This fairly simple technological advance would substitute for the vast international organization, part of whose purpose is to deliver prints to the theater and collect them again and also, of course to collect the money from the exhibitors. With the satellite system collection of the money would be as simple as preparing and paying a telephone bill. This type of technology would change the financing and distribution function to one which could be accomplished by smaller companies with much less funding. It would certainly be in the interest of filmmakers to have a greater number of sources of financing and distribution.”
Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Utopia
“Unless a distributor treats a film with utmost contempt, they do at least know how to distribute films. And I can’t really see cassettes radically altering the situation. There will almost certainly have to be standardization and I should imagine the cassette mustn’t cost more than a few dollars — much less than the prices mentioned in the trade press. Something which is liable to have much more of an impact might be color television with the same resolution and sharpness as we now have on film, possibly even three-dimensional holographic presentations distributed via satellites. This fairly simple technological advance would substitute for the vast international organization, part of whose purpose is to deliver prints to the theater and collect them again and also, of course to collect the money from the exhibitors. With the satellite system collection of the money would be as simple as preparing and paying a telephone bill. This type of technology would change the financing and distribution function to one which could be accomplished by smaller companies with much less funding. It would certainly be in the interest of filmmakers to have a greater number of sources of financing and distribution.”
Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Utopia
Today I learnt my first song on bass. 
I took in a little more myth busting.
A week ago, we put the call out for coronavirus social media myths and asked you to send them in. And we got a lot of them. … One of the most common was a fake email that says it’s from a staff member of a hospital. … It contains a whole list of tips like don't drink cold water, and offers ways to check at home if you have coronavirus. … So we took the claims, and put them to Dr Norman Swan.
