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This first one may well be the most amazing science discovery so far this century. I wanted to create a link to coverage by this specific journalist because he seemed to grasp the significance right away...

We don't seem to have a thread that covers amazing achievements in science and technology, so here goes.

Great in-depth article from the BBC: Can you still transmit Covid-19 after vaccination? So far, the available Covid-19 vaccines have not been judged primarily on their ability to prevent transmission – though this is now being evaluated as a secondary endpoint for many of them. Instead, their...

Good to know, thanks. Samsung also says that the NVMe 970 Pro is 2-bit MLC, but that's limited to 1TB rather than 4TB.

SARS-CoV-1 is a mystery. I think that's why everyone became complacent. MERS is still going, but neither of those seem to be anywhere near as contagious. I don't know how we lucked out like that, given that other coronaviruses (Common Cold) appear to be eternal. I take your point about hoping...

I'm not sure it will be. In the past year, your chances of catching it in the USA were roughly 10%. That's analogous to being vaccinated with a decent vaccine. If you take 100 people and vaccinate them with a vaccine that is only 50% efficacious, then at least 50 of those can still spread the...

Dr Fauci mentioned 75%. That suggests he believes that the uninhibited R0 of COVID-19 is 4.0, or maybe 3.8 if you allow for a vaccine efficacy of 95%. That would be the center of the range that Chinese scientists originally calculated in early 2020. It's pretty simple arithmetic. To avoid...

LED filament bulbs have really taken off over the last few years. I ignored the older ones as decorative curiosities, but the current household ones in Warm White and Cool White from Osram can top 130 lumens /Watt. They run dramatically cooler than non-filament bulbs. This is because there are...

You used to be able to store the admin password with /savecred. Massive security hole, but probably not a problem for family members. Unfortunately, I have read that Microsoft has disabled that in various versions of Windows 10, so you would have to try it and see.

I found this article at The Conversation most illuminating: QAnon tattoos So essentially, these right wing terrorists/trump militiamen are nazis that have replaced swastikas with more subtle symbols. I find it interesting that religious nutters, antivaxers, climate change denialists, and...

Without impeachment progressing to a conviction, which has never happened to a president because it requires a 2/3 Senate majority, there cannot be a punishment, so no way to block him from running for office again. Most safeguards and protections in the US system rely on people having a sense...

Careful fb, the veracity of your second link is questionable (Murdoch media).

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Missed you man. It's great to hear from you, no matter how briefly. Yeah, I often wonder why he went quiet. I figured no-one had heard from him, apparently no-one here knew anything about him. I guess a sudden cardiac event can't be ruled out - he dropped enough hints. If not, I hope he too...

Retiring Rep. Paul Mitchell, who has resigned from the GOP in disgust at the post-election shenanigans: In my opinion, the extremes of both parties are dragging their parties and this country off a cliff. The majority of Americans are in the middle. The majority of Americans want solutions to...