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The problem here is the more the virus spreads the more everyone is put at risk.

I wonder if anyone can help me please? I'd like to take an image and vary the intensity of the channels separately to show different features. Ideally I'd like to be able to do thi…

It takes 6-41 days for covid-19 to kill, with 14 days being the median. The death rate is going to lag behind the cases of infection by a few days.

Here's a pretty good summary: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1997/01/the-bell-curve-f... A few things to bear in mind, race is far more of a cultural construct than a genetic …

The Bell Curve has been thoroughly debunked I believe. Genetics aren't nearly as important as environment for IQ scores, as proven by adopted children.

I took the BBC website title and added the word 'could' to make it clearer. Since then they've changed the title a couple times.

Because it has a higher lethal rate than Influenza and it has the potential to evolve and become much more infectious than it is currently.

I think we can discount it based on its content, written by the kind of manager who should be avoided like the plague.

The economic arguments underline why the US aversion to nationalised healthcare is so counter-productive.

On the other side of the world, we had record temperatures across Europe as well this year. Fewer deaths than the 2003 heatwave though as people were generally better informed of t…

> ...you'll see that temperatures swung as much as 8C during the ice age. The last glacial period itself covers some 100,000 years. I could have phrased it better, I'm talking abou…

Historical civilisations were very vulnerable to changes in local climate as they were heavily reliant on local food production, whereas we routinely ship food across oceans. Event…

All informed decision making is made on the basis of probabilities. You're setting an impossibly and arbitrarily high threshold for action on climate change. The burden of proof is…

Modelling has its limitations but those are well understood by the people building the models, which is why they predict a range of outcomes and uncertainty rises with time. Most o…

Yes, only top-down and bottom-up changes are enough to mitigate the risks of climate change.

> Since when did science become about predicting what will happen in the future? The very definition of science is making testable predictions.

On hard problems these AIs are doing no better than chance. Nor is a badly trained AI in any way consistent.

Certainly not within 50 years, but this is based on projected wet-bulb temperatures around the equator. The limit for human survivability is the equivalent of 35C at 100% humidity.…

Our window to escape this future in narrowing. Here in the UK 3 years of Brexit arguments have sucked up all the oxygen. While on the other side of the Atlantic a science denier is…

> Lastly, what's even the big issue with changes in global temperatures? Even without humans, this planet would go in and out of ice ages on semi-regular intervals. We can't really…

> Brasil needs to be heavily sanctioned by the international community... Along with the US, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Australia. And probably a bunch of others.

And on top of that, inter-government cooperation to tackle a global problem. Like we had to address CFCs pollution. With the political will to sanction countries that deny the evid…