Best of Twitter - Week of November 29, 2021 (1/2)
I’ve never seen anything like this on film before. Paul really has nothing at the 30 second mark—but 45 seconds later he’s got the makings of a hit single.
There’s a widespread view that creative people wait for moments of inspiration. But McCartney, at age 26, is literally able to force these moments to happen. What a skill! And note his confidence & absorption. This is what the ‘flow state’ looks like in real time.
imo learning to code is bad bc it's too easy to get a job and therefore much more difficult to do something weird
A 1997 Lancet study in 8 European regions found that standing still outside for >2 mins (standardized 7°C) is correlated with an increased risk of dying from a respiratory illness (p=0.04). Shivering outside seems to be more dangerous (p=0.001)
@JuliaLBach8 & I suggest (Revs in Med Virol, 2021) that virtually all respiratory viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, use temperature to confine themselves to the nose & throat, and to avoid infecting the lungs, which is likely to immobilize their hosts #tdvt
695 Harvard students and faculty died in World War II, not too far away from the total number of African American combat deaths (708). In Vietnam though the University lost just 22 people, about 1/4th or 5th of what you'd expect. Once upon a time, the "elite" earned their label.
@crimkadid 8 times the rate of the general population during WW1, too.
𝑁𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑆𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑜 @NasicaSerapio
@kush__sharma Here's a biological computation system getting into a bad state:
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This is wild from the Marraffini's lab!
A Strepto pyogenes phage expresses an anti-#CRISPR protein (AcrIIA23), inhibits Cas9 during lytic cycle & enable prophage integration into the direct repeats of the CRISPR array and modulates CRISPR immunity.
nature.com/articles/s4156…
@eigenrobot @LooseMonke "The average age of Members of the House at the beginning of the 117th Congress was 58.4 years; of
Senators, 64.3 years."
so, equal weighting the two avg age is 61.4. In 1981 it was 49 and 53 respectively. 50 senators are over 65. ~27 are over 70.
crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/….
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Quarantined section:
🧵 When the goal is limiting transmission, timing of tests is everything
If you wait days for positive results before isolating, the time spent waiting must be factored in to the “effectiveness sensitivity” of a test.
Time is always ignored as a test metric. This is wrong
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If we look back in time to 2020, our US FDA preferred and prioritized PCR tests with a 7-10 day turnaround over tests with a 15 minute turnaround.
This meant that almost 100% of the tests used for most of 2020 had effectively 0% sensitive for infectious levels of virus.
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This post discusses the data recently released on the Bangladesh mask trial.
One notable tidbit: the supposedly significant difference (≈2%) in # seropositives between the treatment and control arms was smaller than the difference (≈9%) in denominators (consenting population).
Ben Recht @beenwrekt