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To me the hospitalization rate is most important. * Overcrowded hospitals is what leads to large jumps in fatality rates. * It only lags the date of infection by about a week. * It…

The active dose is nowhere near the lethal dose. It is however close to the dose where you could see some minor damage to the liver. It causes problems because people are addicted …

Windy has cool graphics, but it's only forecasted winds and not very granular. If you want to see actual wind observations from satellites check out ASCAT here[0] or here[1] [0] ht…

Any suggestions for a _quiet_ bean grinder that won't disrupt a small office with its noise?

Sea level rise has regional variation due to the gravitational pull of the melting ice. When polar ice melts, there is less gravity at the poles so equatorial regions see higher se…

This is nothing compared to the estimated $3.5 billion to redirect the tracks underground in San Diego. Coastal bluff failures are occurring within several feet of the tracks on a …

A glaring omission from this article is mention of the surfer who died from a brain eating bacteria [0] after visiting the pool in Waco. The wave pool there is classified as a 'lak…

Try selecting "Verbatim" in the tools menu - it can really improve your google search on technical topics.

This looks a lot more sophisticated than currently operating satellite wind mapping, which uses radar deflection off water to estimate wind speed and direction. I hope they make da…

Or we could just get rid of daylight savings so we wouldn't have to complain anymore.

There is a major difference between Gatorade and Powerade, which is the type of sugar. Gatorade has glucose (aka dextrose, the same sugar as an IV bag) while Powerade has high fruc…

Those are relevant facts but they leave out immigrants who are leaving voluntarily. I couldn't find anything within the last 6 months but there was recently a net outflow of undocu…

My observation is that teens are taking jobs that were previously done by undocumented immigrants who have left due to the current political climate. I expect immigration policy co…

What is the energy density of a flow battery like this? It's hard to imagine it is anywhere near gasoline or a lithium ion battery.

I need coastal weather data to find the best waves for surfing so I built http://www.swellmatrix.com I would start other projects with money- making potential but there are always …

I'd really like something like this in podcast form. Summarize the best links and maybe invite some highly rated commenters on for discussion.

When you get a chromebook you can redeem an offer for 100gb free for 2 years. When your 2 years is up, files aren't deleted but you can't upload anything else until you're below th…

California isn't an area where sea level will go down, ironically it will go down near Greenland and Antarctica due to less gravity from ice sheets. There are some nice maps toward…

I would love an indestructible GoPro branded smartphone with a long lasting battery and good camera. Am I the only one?

Interesting, your point makes sense. I agree with the author that the poems selected, and the questions about them, are awful. I also got a perfect score in a reading standardized …

The problem isn't that the author doesn't know the answers, it's that the test is looking for 1 correct answer . The point of reading and analyzing poetry is in the process and bei…

Part 2 is here, with plenty of food for thought: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n03/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-t... > If we find this astonishing, we are assuming that these features …

I'm surprised they ship with chromium, I have had a much better experience with firefox than Chrome on my low end laptop. Does chromium have a smaller memory footprint than Chrome?…

You can take the technology part of the test here: http://www.oecd.org/skills/ESonline-assessment/ I have to admit I found it somewhat difficult, it's not surprising that most peop…

With large surf hitting the coast of California I thought it would be a good time to show my personal project. It is a visualization of wave buoy spectral and time series data, plu…