Thursday, July 23, 2020

Christopher Dickey, Journalist And Memoirist, Dead: How to get people to wear masks

Christopher Dickey, Journalist And Memoirist, Dead At 68

“A foreign correspondent who wrote books about terrorism and international intrigue” — he worked at The Washington Post and Newsweek for many years and at his death was world news editor of The Daily Beast — “but who was perhaps best known for a revealing memoir about his tortured relationship with his father, the renowned poet and novelist James Dickey.” – The Washington Post



How to get people to wear masks.  Don’t be rude to them or scold, and express your own vulnerability


Further T-cell immunity results


Proteus becomes the world’s first manufactured non-cuttable material


Economics of Costco brands and their cannabalization


Should we cancel Aristotle? (NYT)


Such a high seroprevalence in Delhi so quickly?  And what is their actual death rate?

 

 If you are hoping the second wave won’t be so bad, as we all are, Louisiana and Luxembourg are two bad news cases to worry about