An electron microscope image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. Those spherical viruses could well linger in the air. (courtesy CDC)
Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean.
That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus
pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming
doorknob could well be coated…
My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential"
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…
I bought Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I'd looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it.
This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but before I go on, the Band 2…
As a writer with limited Photoshop skills and very limited video-editing skills, I'm tend to be in awe of good video. Since I left the Daily Camera in 2007, though, I haven't had a chance to compare a story of mine with the video equivalent. Back then, it was always TV news people who happened to…
The jersey's orange and the shoes are black, unless you happen to be stoned.
Abigail Sullivan Moore's New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don't mix. This one shows that frequent…