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The Most Important Jigsaw Puzzle

June 27, 2020 By gmoke Leave a Comment

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 4 Comments

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 2 Comments

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 7 Comments

"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 3 Comments

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 2 Comments

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 Leave a Comment

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 1 Comment

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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bluemassgroupBlue Mass. Group@bluemassgroup·
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Look, people confused Charlie Baker "not being Donald Trump" with "trustworthy verging on infallible."

Well gosh that was never true, to say the least. #StockholmSyndrome

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Sydney Rachael Levin-Epstein@SYDNEYRACHAEL_

is #mapoli pronounced

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β€œUtter breakdown ... *it’s just not okay*” [emphasis original]

Cindy Friedman@CindyFriedmanMA

Earlier, I spoke at the #MACOVIDOversight hearing and voiced my concerns & the concerns of my colleagues and constituents. I then asked @MassGovernor what I believe was a straightforward question...and received a not-so-straightforward response.

Read my full statement below: 2

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In 2014, I was a clerk for the ME legislature's enviro committee and I'm flabbergasted by the arguments by progressive Reps (many of whom I respect) against making committee votes and testimony public. /1 #mapoli @act_on_mass @byChrisVan @statehousenews
https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/02/massachusetts-house-democrats-push-for-transparency-attracts-gop-support.html

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What conditions accounts for this?

H/T @carboncounts

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