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Un favoloso articolo di Vanity Fair che indaga un fenomeno critico per la upper class americana: durante la pandemia un sacco di newyorkesi sono rimasti bloccati a casa di amici che vivono negli Hamptons (la zona figa di New York City) e non se ne vogliono andare più via neanche adesso che il lockdown è stato fortemente ridotto.

Money quote: “Nightmare houseguests are a Hamptons staple and complaining about them behind their backs is basically a sport. But this summer, many are yearning for the old days, when a guest leaving a wet towel on the floor or eating the last serving of lobster salad was as bad as it got. Because while much of the New York City lockdown has now been lifted, a recent unscientific survey of New York–area hosts with pandemic-squatting friends suggested that a fair amount of houseguests are continuing to outstay their welcomes.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/a-plague-of-hamptons-pandemic-houseguests-who-wont-leave
Nature pubblica una interessante analisi dell’andamento del coronavirus e degli scenari futuri. Ad esempio, il rischio che ogni sei mesi sia necessario sviluppare un nuovo vaccino, come accade per l’influenza o altre malattie “stagionali”. Ma il cuore della risposta è sociale, ovviamente. Qui ci sono esempi, modelli, ragionamenti e previsioni. Io mi chiedo però il distanziamento, ad esempio nelle scuole, quali conseguenze porti per altri tipi di malattie: i bambini all’asilo passano attraverso cicli comuni di influenze, raffreddori, malattie esantematiche. (Sono chiamati “mocciosi” non a caso). Creare ambienti in cui questo non accade più che conseguenze ha per il loro sistema immunitario? In questo articolo non trovate la risposta, pero me lo chiedo.

Money quote: “June 2021. The world has been in pandemic mode for a year and a half. The virus continues to spread at a slow burn; intermittent lockdowns are the new normal. An approved vaccine offers six months of protection, but international deal-making has slowed its distribution. An estimated 250 million people have been infected worldwide, and 1.75 million are dead.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02278-5
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Oggi, 20 anni fa, moriva Carl Barks, uno dei più influenti autori Disney e non solo. Ma cosa è rimasto della sua opera nei fumetti contemporanei?
👉 https://bit.ly/3grMFMb
Questa ha messo il camminatore in un buco di stanza più lungo che largo e lavora in piedi, camminando. Ne fa gran lode del beneficio per la salute. Secondo me una metafora migliore della ruota del criceto non si poteva trovare. Se torna il lockdown però potrebbe essere un'idea.

Money quote: “These days, I walk during most meetings and sometimes when I read. I rarely walk when I need to write something longer than a few sentences; for focused writing — like right now — I sit at our table. That’s just my preference. It’s quite possible to type and walk. (In fact, I used to do the opposite: I walked while typing but not during meetings because the old treadmill was too loud.)”

https://medium.com/better-humans/i-work-on-a-treadmill-in-an-apartment-without-room-for-a-special-desk-d234259cb0b
Gli 89 libri raccomandati da Paul Graham (e se scavate nel sito, anche quelli raccomandati da vari altri)

Money quote: “Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist. He is best known for his work on Lisp, his former startup Viaweb, co-founding the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, his blog, and Hacker News”

https://www.readthistwice.com/person/paul-graham
Perché le zanzare ci amano (e ci pungono) in maniera disomogenea. Maledette loro.

Money quote: “It’s also possible that we think we’re more attractive to mosquitoes when really, we just have a strong reaction to their bites, Potter points out. Indeed, as-yet unpublished findings by De Obaldia and colleagues found that some people’s self reports of being more attractive to mosquitoes didn’t hold up in odor tests in the lab, possibly because they mistook their bite reaction for attractiveness. “

https://www.mic.com/p/why-do-mosquitoes-bite-some-people-more-than-others-scientists-weigh-in-30353008
Il soft power cinese si sta mangiando tutto il Pacifico. Così come aveva già mangiato mezza Africa. Il coronavirus sta solo accelerando questo processo. Una analisi puntuale vista dalla prospettiva dell’Australia.

Money quote: “Over the past 15 years China has dramatically scaled up its footprint in the Pacific. Chinese cranes and state-owned engineering companies are at work in every major city. Chinese trade stores are in every major town. China is now the third largest aid donor in the region, eclipsing Japan and the U.S. but still far behind Australia and New Zealand, and it is fast becoming the region's most important trading partner. Taiwan is also a player, in an effort to retain a diplomatic foothold in the Pacific which Beijing has managed to almost completely nullify”

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/china-coronavirus-aid-pacific-islands-part-geopolitical-game
Congratulazioni!