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I came here to say exactly this. I found this article[0] here a few months ago on HN and it dramatically changed my life for the better. I had always thought I was just "easily dis…

This article [0] suggests that false negative results will not be as problematic if we manage to start screening on a population level. Inaccuracy of up to 15% could still keep the…

The thing is though, the current PCR-based tests can be parallelised, with hundreds being run at the same time, taking just a couple of hours. The biggest waiting time comes from l…

Interesting, thank you for the link.

Although the rest of what you say is true, it's actually a myth[0] that all Tasmanian Aboriginals were killed off (something that Tasmanian Aboriginals find frustrating in itself).…

Thank you for linking that report, very interesting. I also read through the article[0] that the report linked. I think a significant factor in the difference in risk is how much c…

As an alternative to "2nd/3rd" or "developing" countries, I really like the "Four Levels of Global Income" model[0] that Hans Rosling put forth in his book Factfulness[1] (a must-r…

Menstrual cups are a step up from this! They produce much less waste, are much less messy (almost never leak), and don't need to be changed as often (once every 6 - 12 hours and wi…

Here is a video of a sulphur-crested cockatoo, very determinedly pushing a brick off a rubbish bin in order to be able to access its contents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOpFZ…

I usually use the analogy that a Swede pronouncing "cheap" as "sheep" is equivalent to English speakers pronouncing "skjuta" as "tjuta". As a native English speaker, it took me a w…

Masculine and feminine have merged into 'common'/'utrum', used mostly for animate objects as pointed out by a sibling comment, although not all animate objects (e.g. barn, lejon). …

The 'wh' sound /ʍ/ isn't the same as the Swedish 'sj' sound /ɧ/, but depending on the realisation (like how it's pronounced Stockholm) it can sound fairly similar. The 'sj' sound i…

Also ironically, the mining sector is also the driving factor behind a lot of renewable energy innovation projects in Australia. Since mining usually takes place in the middle of n…