Monday, November 30, 2020

Leopold Aschenbrenner is now blogging

 Leopold Aschenbrenner is now blogging


WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW:  Physicists could do the ‘impossible’: Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar


Don’t tar all our soldiers with the same brush

War in all its forms is awful, so let’s support those who conduct it on our behalf and, when they come back, go easy on them. They were only doing our bidding.
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Fast Company – The vaccines ‘do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus . . . and infecting others.’…The problem is, it is yet unknown if any of the three vaccines—including Moderna’s—will make the transmission of the virus from a vaccinated person to an unvaccinated person impossible. Or, to put it another way, it’s possible that even vaccinated people will be able to still infect unvaccinated people with COVID-19. As Zaks told Axios, while Moderna’s and other’s vaccines do appear to prevent people from getting “severely sick” from COVID-19, “[t]hey do not show that they prevent you from potentially carrying this virus . . . and infecting others.”


Fish save energy by swimming in schools Physics World


Squirrel gets drunk after eating fermented pears outside Minnesota woman’s home FOX9


A billion people have no legal identity – but a new app plans to change that World Economic Forum


Cash in the time of Covid Bank of England


Google ordered to hand over emails in £453m divorce battle FT


German watchdog reports EY to prosecutors over Wirecard audit FT