…may have enabled some people to fight the coronavirus.
[Update a while later]
Per some of the comments, I can’t actually remember when the last time was that I was sick. I suspect I have a pretty strong immune system (may be a combination of my mostly-keto diet and a lot of fasting). I have to fly to DC in a couple weeks for a deposition, but I’m not really sweating it.
Quantum physicists say “don’t sweat it.”
That’s good news, I guess, if we ever get time travel.
We may soon be able to predict them. That would be nice.
The ape who loves.
Yes, they do exist, and I am definitely not one.
I’m always amused at people who can’t conceive of anyone who is not heterosexual, because they’re projecting. And as I’ve often noted, most of the argument about this stuff probably consists of bisexuals who assume that everyone is like them, and that therefore it is a choice.
…by Democrats.
I’ve never thought it looked a day over four billion years old, myself.
[Afternoon update]
Link is fixed.
…could trigger the San Andreas north of LA.
Nice picture. It shows how the two faults define the Mojave desert, separating it from the Tehachapis and southern Sierra. A major quake on that fault would be bad for the LA basin, but not as much as a 7 on the Newport-Inglewood fault, which last acted up in the 1930s in Long Beach. It is just a few miles east of our house.
The relationship goes back to neolithic times.
Some thoughts from Tyler Cowen.
We really need to get a better understanding of how our genetics interact with the disease.
[Update a while later]
The benefits of pooled testing.
I don’t understand why they haven’t been doing this. Other than, of course, continued incompetence at the CDC.