SAFK -- Going Out To Buy Sophia A New Pair Of Shoes -- July 31, 2023

Locator: 45256INV.

This pretty much says it all:

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And, Thank You Very Much

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Microsoft

As expected, of those who replied, none could answer the pop quiz question: name Microsoft's spatial computing headset.

 

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The Book Club

 

Covid-19

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live, Nicholas A. Christakis, c. 2020.

Notes.

Re-reading what was going on in real-time, in 2019 - 2020, makes me question whether "experts" in microbiology opining today on this whole issue even remember what was happening then. It's easy now to ignore "facts" and opine politically.

This is a very, very important book to have in one's "Covid library."

Apollo's Arrow: wiki.

 

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My Covid-19 Library

The Genetics Of Corona Virus, link here. 

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, David Quammen, 2022. Link here.

Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story – Sage Scientist’s Revelatory Covid Memoir -- Jeremy Farrar -- October 15, 2022. Link here.

Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live, Nicholas A. Christakis, c. 2020. 614.5924CHR. Link here.

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City, Fang Fang, translated by Michael Berry, c. 2020. 614.5924FAN.

Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened And How To Stop The Next One, Debora MacKenzie, c. 2020.  614.5924MAC. Credentials: a journalist, with history of "working as a biomedical researcher. Book jacket does not say what her degree was in and where she got her degree.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis, c. 2021. 614.5924LEW. Credentials: best-selling author, to include: The Fifth Risk; Moneyball; Liar's Poker; The Big Short.

Fifth Risk: written during the first half of the Trump administration, The Fifth Risk framed the federal government as a manager of a portfolio of existential risks; natural disasters, nuclear weapons, financial panics, hostile foreigners, energy security, food security, and on and on and on. [He could have included other risks: loss of free speech; loss of rights to own guns; loss of right to privacy and on and on and on.]

This may be one of the most interesting of the lot. Told by a great story-teller. No index. Will have to find out for myself his thoughts on Fauci and gain-of-function.

Evolution

I've read so many books on evolution, I cannot remember if I've seen this book before. 

But, wow, even if I have, it's great to re-visit it.

Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, edited by Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis, foreword by Edward O. Wilson, c. 2009. 979 pages.

Notes.