TO THE HARE, WITH LOVE
THE JULY 2, 2020, ISSUE of London Review of Books offers Katherine Rundell’s ”Consider the Hare.” This essay is something of a love letter to Lepus europaeus: “In their long-limbed … Continue reading
SCHOOL DAZE?
THERE ARE PLENTY of reasons for kids to resume conventional schooling. There are plenty of reasons that this may not yet be the time. Here are tidbits gleaned from Science, … Continue reading
COVID-19 ALGEBRA
A RECENT POSTING in the AAAS Member Community Digest discusses the relationship between a disease’s herd immunity and its R0, “R-naught.” Indeed, it turns out that, to be successful, the … Continue reading
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TIDBITS FROM AAAS
IT’S NO SURPRISE that Science, the weekly magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, should be an excellent source of information on science, you’ll excuse the term … Continue reading
ON POST-PANDEMIC NORMALCY PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARED insights about post-pandemic normalcy from a professor of psychological science, public health, and medicine. Today in Part 2, young scientists focus their thoughts on the year 2040. … Continue reading
ON POST-PANDEMIC NORMALCY PART 1
I MAKE TWO assumptions here: first, that the presence of Covid-19 will eventually diminish to the point of other viruses. These include, in no particular order, smallpox, chickenpox, measles, mumps, … Continue reading
SLED DOGS HAVE MUSHED SINCE THE HOLOCENE
GENOME STUDIES SHOW that modern sled dogs trace back to a 9500-year-old Siberian dog related to a 33,000-year-old Siberian wolf. In particular, they’re not related to any modern American wolves. … Continue reading
SST CONCORDE REDUX
IT’S NO SURPRISE that a 9949-word article would teach me more about the SST Concorde. The historic supersonic transport had already appeared twice here at SimanaitisSays: “Concorde vs QE2,” May … Continue reading
IT SEEMS LIKE AN INFINITY… AND SO IT IS: ∞
IN MY CONTINUING exploration of math symbols, what better one to examine these days than ∞, the symbol for infinity. Here are tidbits on its definition, origin, and modern uses. … Continue reading
GOODBYE, MOORE’S LAW. HELLO TO THE TOP
IN 1975, INTEL founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors in a semiconductor would double every two years. Moore’s Law, as it came to be known, held true … Continue reading
