BBC News – Alligator on gas snaps up Ig Nobel prize https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54197198 The annual IG Nobel awards, a bit of levity with serious undertones (Not to be confused with a Dime bar) in an often far too serious world. Other awards of note include Management: Xi Guang-An, Mo Tian-Xiang, Yang Kang-Sheng, Yang Guang-Sheng, and LingContinueContinue reading “BBC News: Alligator on gas snaps up Ig Nobel prize”
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The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in Covid-19 transmission | PNAS
Ok, this is the scientific evidence with supports the requested social distancing and use of masks during the current Covid outbreak. Speech droplets generated by asymptomatic carriers of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are increasingly considered to be a likely mode of disease transmission. Highly sensitive laser light scattering observations have revealed thatContinueContinue reading “The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in Covid-19 transmission | PNAS”
Mental Health and Facebook Language
RIght I did warn that there would be some Maths on this site. I found this interesting piece regarding the outcomes of a research project on the viability of Facebook language wrt to predicting Depression. It is a typically scientifically worded document, which I don’t apologise for, and it shows that there is validity inContinueContinue reading “Mental Health and Facebook Language”
