2020 – Page 10 – Postcards

F1 History

‘It’s impossible I hit the wall. The wall moved’

April 22, 2020 No Comments

This is a brilliant story from the classic days of F1. I love it because it shows both the incredible precision and relentless consistency that an expert at the top of their game can bring to their chosen profession. In this case, the expert was three-times F1 World Champion Ayrton Senna. Pat Symonds, technical director, […]

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Health Just for Laughs

Can we stop social distancing yet?

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 No Comments

No.

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Life People

Elliot Gould: “it’s all of us together, or none of us”

April 21, 2020 No Comments

Enjoyable interview, it’s very easy to hear and see him in your head as you read it. He’s got a distinctive voice and mannerism. The best review ever received by Elliott Gould – renowned actor and star of M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye; not to mention, Ross and Monica’s dad on Friends – was from Groucho Marx. […]

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Health Science!

Emerging Science of what Covid-19 does to a human body

April 21, 2020 No Comments

Fascinating overview of what the current state of knowledge is. It’s a rapidly changing field out there, and this is science working full-tilt in ‘all it’s messy glory’ (via kottke ): I’ve been hearing that although Covid-19’s attack begins in the lungs, it is as much a vascular disease as it is a respiratory disease […]

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Books History

To Read: ‘Britain’s War’ by Daniel Todman

April 21, 2020 No Comments

I find that no matter how many books I read on the second world war, there’s always something new to discover, usually the result of a fresh perspective on old facts. Daniel Todman’s dual volume work on Britain’s War looks well worth adding to the ‘to-read’ pile: .. historians of Todman’s generation are right to […]

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Government Health Science!

It’s Working

April 10, 2020 No Comments

Forty days into the national epidemic and the word from Prof Nolan, who chairs the large group of mathematicians modelling the course of the disease, is mixed. Yes, the impact of the very disruptive restrictions embraced by the public has been profound, but no, we are not there yet – the rate the virus is spreading […]

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Society Transport

Silent Skies

April 2, 2020 No Comments

I can usually see a stream of little silver slivers on the horizon, landing and taking off from Dublin Airport. Now, the skies are empty and silent. Global air traffic has collapsed: The tiny yellow aircraft symbols speak volumes. Anyone familiar with the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 knows the scores of miniature aircraft on the interactive […]

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Health Life Society

Internet is a utility, not a luxury

March 19, 2020 No Comments

Some things we’ve learned over the last week of movement restrictions.

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Health

Act now!

March 18, 2020 No Comments

Fascinating post from kottke: Jewell explains a bit more about what we’re looking at: The graph illustrates the results of a thought experiment. It assumes constant 30 percent growth throughout the next month in an epidemic like the one in the U.S. right now, and compares the results of stopping one infection today — by […]

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Humour Internets Just for Laughs

Current International Responses

March 16, 2020 No Comments

Some of these memes are pretty funny

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Who?

Murf

‘It’s impossible I hit the wall. The wall moved’

Can we stop social distancing yet?

Elliot Gould: “it’s all of us together, or none of us”

Emerging Science of what Covid-19 does to a human body

To Read: ‘Britain’s War’ by Daniel Todman

It’s Working

Silent Skies

Internet is a utility, not a luxury

Act now!

Current International Responses

Year: 2020