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Local, National, International Energy (and Other) Events Listings for January, 2022

January 6, 2022 By gmoke

These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts.  Would be good to have a place that helped you access them. Anybody know of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: biodiversity, climate, COVID, ecology, education, energy, ENSO, environment, gender equity, germany, harvard, Jewish, mit, pandemic, smart buildings, trees

MA Economic Activity Drop Since Pandemic

May 14, 2021 By gmoke

I saw this article on "How Well Has Your State Recovered from the Pandemic" (https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-well-has-your-state-recovered-from-the-pandemic/) and noticed that MA has the fifth largest drop from January 2020 to May … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, economics, pandemic, recovery

The Most Important Jigsaw Puzzle

June 27, 2020 By gmoke

The most important jigsaw puzzle right now is how the CoV-2 spike, a 3 part structure, attaches to the human ACE2 protein through which it enters the cells of our bodies. That is the microscopic gap in our defenses. When we understand … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: AI, coronavirus, COVID-19, education, Foldit, jigsawpuzzles, music, MutualAid, pandemic, proteinfolding

COVID19: Iceland

April 7, 2020 By gmoke

Iceland has been testing its population for COVID19 probably more than any other country: "The latest [April 6, 2020] figures on covid.is (https://www.covid.is) show that a total of 1,486 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Iceland, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, genetics, iceland, pandemic

COVID19: Food and Agriculture Resources

April 5, 2020 By gmoke

Regional Northeast Regional Agriculture and COVID19 Wednesday, April 8 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Online RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/uJ0tcuihrT8ouZJuXnaDemygSBJUTBFyFQ Maine Farmland Trust and NESAWG will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: agriculture, COVID19, ecology, economics, economies of scale, energy, environment, food, logistics, pandemic, sustainability

Open Sourcing Solutions to COVID19: Mutual Aid, Citizen Scientists, Makers, Gardeners, Artists…..

April 2, 2020 By gmoke

"You could say that civil society is what unimpaired mutual aid creates; or that civil society is the condition and mutual aid the activity that produces it.” - Rebecca Solnit, from A Paradise Built in Hell [my notes at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: citizen science, COVID19, mutual aid, open-source, pandemic, protein folding, voluntary association

Report from Taiwan: Friends Return to the USA to Compare and Contrast

March 28, 2020 By gmoke

My friends and former co-workers, Marc and Sally, love to travel the world and this year spent some of February and March in Taiwan. This is their account of the response of Taiwan to COVID19, the letter they sent to friends after they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, pandemic, public-health, social distancing, Taiwan

Hacking COVID19: Open Source Global Brainstorms and Mutual Aid

March 26, 2020 By gmoke

MIT COVID19 Challenge - Beat the Pandemic Friday, April 3 at 6:00pm - Sunday, April 5 Online RSVP at https://covid19challenge.mit.edu We invite you to attend the MIT COVID-19 Challenge event, Beat the Pandemic, a series of virtual … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: COVID19, disaster, economics, emergency, gandhi, Gandhian economics, health, mutual aid, nonviolence, pandemic, preparedness, public-health, r-buckminster-fuller, Rebecca Solnit

Crowd Sourcing Solutions to COVID19

March 23, 2020 By gmoke

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590 The editors of JAMA recognize the challenges, concerns, and frustration about the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) that is affecting the care of patients and safety … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: cooperation, corona virus, COVID19, crowd sourcing, economics, health, pandemic, shelter in place, voluntary association

Truth of Dare

September 6, 2009 By lasthorseman

http://keithtruth.blogspot.com... At the very least it's Draconian/Orwellian/Machavellian/Satanic but there is more. Dead microbiologists, 96 at least. Graphic illustration of the international debate on the subject. Professor Panarin's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9/11, health-care, pandemic, swine-flu-bioweapon

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