TIL that a 102-year-old woman beat Spanish Flu as a baby, COVID-19 as a centenarian, and cancer in between:
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What did you learn today?
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"The [This invalid link has been removed] just added pregnant women to [their] list of those at a higher risk for severe illness, a severe illness that is real. I’ll do my best with the tools we have. I’ll be wearing a mask when indoors with other people, wearing one outdoors when in close contact, limiting my gatherings to what is necessary, participating in the economy responsibly, washing my hands, and social distancing whenever possible. I certainly don’t live in any fear, but I also in good conscience cannot pretend we live in the land of make-believe."
~ Richard Menger MD MPA — COVID-19′s greatest trick
~ Richard Menger MD MPA — COVID-19′s greatest trick
TIL there really are some truly bad drummers out there.
Today you learned that?
Switching to fanned frets is easy below the octave, but gets tricky in the upper registers.
Perhaps on basses (I've never had the opportunity to try one), but I have never had an issue with my 12-string guitar. It felt totally natural from the first time I took it off the wall to try at Schoenberg Guitars.
Well, to be honest about it, yes, I've known that for decades, but that video really proves the point.Today you learned that?
… when Rana was a resident, she says the doctors in charge never checked in with the trainees about their feelings after a patient died. She says it's traumatic. You can feel like you failed them. And Rana says that two of the residents she trained with actually died by suicide. She sometimes still wonders if someone checking in might have made a difference.
So when she heard about the team of Henry Ford trainees who lost a patient, she made a point of stopping by to see them. They were all in this cramped, windowless workroom. It's on the fifth floor. …
The Reprieve - This American Life
I couldn’t finish it. I just couldn’t.
How everyone else in that room did is beyond me.
You have to think that someone won a bet on that one...
"I bet I can play drums"
"I bet I can wreck a song"
"I bet I can play nothing but out of time fills for a full song"
etc.
we know things instinctively but Never give it much thought. I have been on chemotherapy for the past 3 months and during this time I have spent a lot of time reading articles and bio information on the greatest Jazz Stars. one of the dumb things that I always assumed was the great jazz Stars never bothered to learn to read music or write down their thoughts and transcript. The other day I read capital c o l t r i a n s transcripts of Giant Steps. I had an epiphany these old greats were monsters with music theory. They did not just come by it playing and Smoky clubs and doing drugs. Sometimes the obvious just needs to come up and slap you in the face.
I liked everything in this post except the chemo part.
Wishes for a speedy recovery.
Check the Miles Davis bio if you get a chance.
TIL that a "Blazing Saddles" sitcom was made for convoluted reasons, but it was never aired (thank goodness!):
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He really took that song to heart, did he not?
We''ll very likely have even more outbreaks if we keep exploiting wildlife. Awareness is deepening. And the wilderness breathes a sigh of relief 
