Thursday Throughput: Michael Collins Edition
Michael Collins was such a professional, he wrote a 117-page manual to deal with every possible rendezvous situation. Ad Astra, sir.
Tagged: Coronavirus
Thursday Throughput: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science, and Facts vs Truth
It’s fashionable to say, “believe the science”. But science is not a belief; it’s a series of facts and our interpretation of those facts
Thursday Throughput: COVID Vaccine Side Effects Edition
To stop distribution based on a vaccine side effect that is rare, unproven, & statistically insignificant is simply irresponsible.
Thursday Throughput: TYC 7037-89-1, or Six Star Edition
Last week, NASA announced the discovery of one of the most unique systems we’ve ever seen. Behold TYC 7037-89-1.
Mini-Throughput: Mutant Math and New Strains of Covid
The rise of new more infectious strains of COVID-19 are the biggest story in science right now. This is why herd immunity was always a bad idea.
Thursday Throughput: Dark Matter Edition
Dark energy, which comprises a whopping 70% of the universe, is something we are only beginning to formulate questions about, let alone understand.
Colorado Man Has First Known US Case of “UK Variant” Coronavirus
‘Cause the Rocky Mountain Way is more contagious than the way we had
Thursday Throughput: Proxima Cen Edition
What happened here was that the team got a signal that can’t be easily ruled out as interference. That doesn’t mean it’s aliens.
Mini-Throughput: The Reality of a Vaccine
If everything pans out-and I caution the ice still a bit precarious-Dec 8, 2020 will go down as one of the great dates in human history.
2020 In Film: The Virus Complicates Cinema
Now as 2020 starts to churn towards the end, it’s time for another report card for the film industry.
Thursday Throughput: Masks Edition
They have been doing this garbage for almost a year now: cherry-picking single weak studies that support their point and ignoring the massive swaths of studies that dispute them.
Like It Or Not, Remote Learning Is Coming Back
Acceptance is the place to be when it comes to school closures. It’s ugly, sudden, disruptive and messy, but it’s coming.
Yes, Virginia, There Is Still A Pandemic Going On
We are in the midst of a catastrophic surge in the virus that matches or exceeds what we experienced earlier this year.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Barrington approach won’t bring back lost jobs. It won’t restore failed businesses. It probably won’t even achieve herd immunity.
Thursday Throughput: Bigger Better Earths Edition
We are in the early days of an exciting phase of astrophysics: an age of exploration of planets outside our solar system. The science has been moving fast. It’s going to start moving even faster.
How Colleges Can Actually Stay Open
This “abstinence only” model for college socialization is not only destined to fail, but also it ignores the mental and psychological strains
Thursday Throughput: Polio Eradication Edition
Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.
Student Suspended For Taking Popular Photograph
Two Georgia high school students have been suspended after posting photos of crowded hallways from the first days of their new school year.
Georgia’s Largest School District Shows Challenges in Opening Schools.
It took all of one day for the challenge of opening schools to become very clear in Georgia’s largest school district, and this was just staff, not the 180k students of Gwinnett County.
Thursday Throughput: The Hope of a COVID-19 Vaccine
There are 200 teams around the world contributing to the one of the biggest and most dramatic scientific efforts in human history: a COVID-19 vaccine
