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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 02:00:53 UTC 
Stephen Sekula
Now comes the hardest part: Getting a coronavirus vaccine from loading dock to upper arm https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/23/covid-getting-vaccine/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 21:50:52 UTC
Stephen Sekula
"Michigan board votes to certify the states election results, dealing Trump another blow" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michigan-vote-certification/2020/11/23/c435ed24-2d52-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html?tid=ss_tw -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 13:21:07 UTC
Stephen Sekula
Even if we had enough staff to call up everyones workplace and contacts, there are so many new infections that it wouldnt be very effective. Im a contact tracer in North Dakota. The virus is so rampant that we gave up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/18/north-dakota-contact-tracing-stopped/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 13:01:28 UTC
Stephen Sekula
The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Heres what reality-based journalists must do about it https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/trump-disinformation-journalism-next-steps/2020/11/20/6a634378-2ac8-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 12:41:04 UTC
Stephen Sekula
College students hit the road after an eerie pandemic semester. Will the virus go home with them? This is the question we have all been asking ourselves for months ... and here we are at the doorstep of this moment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/thanksgiving-coronavirus-campus-university-wisconsin-madison/2020/11/20/9b2c68c0-2a07-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 03:00:48 UTC
Stephen Sekula
A very wide-ranging Q -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Monday, 23-Nov-2020 00:00:51 UTC
Stephen Sekula
"A little bit of math: vaccine efficacy" With reports from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that the preliminary analysis of their data suggests a 95% effective vaccine (one each for each company) [1], I found myself wondering about the mathematics of vaccine effectiveness. There were some small details about how numbers were calculated from the data that were lost to me. This weekend, I ⦠Continue reading "A little bit of math: vaccine efficacy" https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2020/11/22/a-little-bit-of-math-vaccine-efficacy/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/rss2.xml ) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 22:31:04 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From AJamesMcCarthy https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy on Twitter: Last night I captured around 20,000 individual photos of the moon, that were stitched together to create one image with far more detail than otherwise possible. Take a look at how much stark beauty exists on this rock we tend to take for granted. #astrophotography #space #opteam https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1330234960255528963/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69311 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 21:40:53 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From NobelPrize https://twitter.com/NobelPrize on Twitter: When Frederic Joliot and Irene Joliot-Curie bombarded a piece of aluminum with alpha particles in 1934, a new kind of radiation was discovered that left traces inside an apparatus known as a cloud chamber. It was the first time a radioactive element had been created artificially. https://twitter.com/NobelPrize/status/1330410950239903746/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69309 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 21:40:49 UTC
Stephen Sekula
After Suffering Irreparable Damage, It's Lights Out for the Arecibo Observatory's Iconic Telescope It is so damned hard to say goodbye to faithful old scientific instruments. It is like parting with your left eye or right ear. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-suffering-irreparable-damage-its-lights-out-arecibo-observatorys-iconic-telescope-180976367/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 19:40:49 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From DallasOEM https://twitter.com/DallasOEM on Twitter: Face coverings help protects all of us. Wear a face covering whenever you're in a public place or where you can't be more than 6 feet from others who don't live with you. It's a statewide requirement. https://t.co/sDLsOy4htL @CityOfDallas @DallasFireRes_q @DallasPD https://twitter.com/DallasOEM/status/1330292466982019072/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69303 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 14:21:30 UTC
Stephen Sekula
Bogus crowd photos at Million MAGA March and other news literacy lessons another lesson in the ongoing news literacy project. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/11/19/bogus-crowd-photos-million-maga-march-other-news-literacy-lessons/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 14:21:07 UTC
Stephen Sekula
Reports of two promising covid-19 vaccines dont mean we magically, quickly return to normal https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-vaccine-masks-normal-life/2020/11/20/b4ed16c8-2922-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 03:30:54 UTC
Stephen Sekula
"The Horror of COVID-19 in One Chart" There are a lot of idiots on social media. This will come as no surprise to most of you (to the rest ⦠well, chalk up one more). For example, in response to the COVID Tracking Projectâs update of weekly COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death data, this was posted: Every metric was predicted to climb (we ⦠Continue reading "The Horror of COVID-19 in One Chart" https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2020/11/21/the-horror-of-covid-19-in-one-chart/ ( Feed URL: http://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/rss2.xml ) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 03:00:51 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From COVID19Tracking https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking on Twitter: Looking at weekly numbers, deaths rose 31% from last week, as every metric continued to climb. https://twitter.com/COVID19Tracking/status/1330313750012862464/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69292 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 03:00:47 UTC
Stephen Sekula
"Totals continue to soar: Dallas County announces 2,163 coronavirus cases, while Texas records 12,567" https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/11/21/totals-continue-to-soar-dallas-county-announces-2163-coronavirus-cases-while-texas-records-12567/ -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Sunday, 22-Nov-2020 02:50:42 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From tdgch https://twitter.com/tdgch on Twitter: Etats-Unis: En Pennsylvanie, un juge rejette les accusations de fraude https://www.tdg.ch/en-pennsylvanie-un-juge-rejette-les-accusations-de-fraude-847493305533?utm_source=dlvr.it -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 23:50:51 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From NCSE https://twitter.com/NCSE on Twitter: The record-shattering 2020 hurricane season, explained (with the aid of @MichaelEMann). #ClimateChange #SciChat #SciComm https://t.co/PDvNwZCqIA -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 23:50:48 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From JayHowarthHTGAP https://twitter.com/JayHowarthHTGAP on Twitter: I made some versions of the @ATLASexperiment logo for each of the physics groups but couldn't think of anything to do with them, so I made an infographic. Can you figure out what the meaning behind each of the logos is? #particlephysics #CERN #LogoDesign #topquark https://twitter.com/JayHowarthHTGAP/status/1330204732007337987/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69285 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Nov-2020 02:00:57 UTC
Stephen Sekula
From FermilabEd https://twitter.com/FermilabEd on Twitter: Join us for @Fermilab's Virtual Ask-a-Scientist! "Principles of Quantum Weirdness and how they are used in Fermilab experiments" takes place on December 6 at 1:00 PM! The online event is free but advanced registration is required at https://fnal.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdO2spj4qHdPRmDusB2hPKHYWrgNcxSXk?fbclid=IwAR3_8i3t5VSMtFMPAOn7n-UWVxJb_SX6R_cV0r2aO7nCmhSh4Lt2zmH4lG4 https://twitter.com/FermilabEd/status/1329882899278143488/photo/1 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/69267
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