Blue Mountains trip to Bullabarra filled with pottery stories
Most writers are not good talkers. But more and more, their lives involve not so much writing as talking
Apple Wants to End Passwords for Everything. Here’s How It Would Work. WSJ
The sexual revolution has brought women many gains. But who's benefited the most? Men. Louise Perry explains
Four Novelists, One Ocean: How Indian Ocean Literature Can Remap the World
Another book to add to the to-read pile, Charne Lavery’s Rewriting Ocean Worlds, about four novelists who center their work on the Indian Ocean and its environs.
Hypnosis: Masturbation of the Mind Getting steamy to understand a foggy subject
Chetan Bhagat Q & A
In the Star of Mysore Sujata Rajpal has a Q & A with One night @ the call center-author Chetan Bhagat, ‘India Loves Caste System, Even Literature Has One
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How strong is your Covid immunity?
NBC News: “A newly developed blood test that measures a specific immune response in the body could help doctors gauge how much protection a person has against Covid-19, according to a new study. The test, which focuses on the part of the immune system that confers long-term protection by prompting the body to “remember” the virus, could help make sense of the complex tangle of Covid immunity that now exists from person to person.
The test can, for instance, measure immunity regardless of whether someone has developed a level of protection from one or more natural infections or from vaccinations and booster shots. Others, who may have much lower levels of protection because they are immunocompromised, could also use the test to assess their vulnerability and see how they responded to the vaccines, said Ernesto Guccione, an associate professor of oncological sciences and pharmacological sciences at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai…”