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> Is there a historical track record for finding the natural virus SARS-1 [1]: > The viral outbreak was subsequently genetically traced to a colony of cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan, China. The Guardian reference [2] states: &
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Deigin conflates RNA samples with viral isolates that can be used to infect lab animals. Weinstein seems to be stuck on bat respiratory disease that spreads in roosting caves. He does not consider gastrointestinal infections spread by bat g
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Also see the HN thread Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it [1]. Novelist Nicholson Barker has written a beautifully worded article but it lacks critical thinking. Lab gain-of-function experimen
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They also carefully managed the quarantine of the first set of returning travellers. They were sent home with a kit that included a thermometer and a set of surgical masks to use and public health officials contacted them daily via SMS and&
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This is a 24 minute Planet Money podcast named Fork the Government but the HN title has been changed to match the title in the HTML header. The show interviews two civic hackers [1] Howard Wu and Audrey Tang (Taiwan's Digital Minis
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It doesn't have to be about just deserts, it can be about ethics. This argument is the main thrust of Plato's dialogue Crito [1]: > In Crito, Socrates believes injustice may not be answered with injustice, personifies the Law
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Right, Snowden and Manning sit on a similar spectrum in terms of unauthorized copying of classified documents. Snowden, seemed to have foreknowledge of an actual crime or at least the government failing to follow a reasonable person’s expec
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These were government documents leaked to a service designed to protect whistleblowers.
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According to the F* landing page [1]: > F* (pronounced F star) is a general-purpose functional programming language with effects aimed at program verification. > The main ongoing use case of F* is building a verified, drop-in replacem
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In my mind, what distinguishes the Snowden case from the Assange/Manning cases is the distinction between whistleblowing [1] and a fishing expedition [2]: > A fishing expedition is an informal, pejorative term for a non-specific sea
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Letters to a Young Scientist [1] was written in 2014. E. O. Wilson [2] has written five more books since then. Deborah Gordon’s [3] work on red harvester ants may also be of interest to the HN community: > In 2012, she found that the f
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The paper Can a Parent Do Too Much for Their Child? An Examination By Parenting Professionals of the Concept of Overparenting [1]: > One hundred and twenty-eight professionals responded to an online survey about their observations of o
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I agree with your assessment of MOSTLY WRONG but I think that you are overly pessimistic about the timelines: > But medically speaking, smartwatches are probably decades away from independently diagnosing anything, let along recommending
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I read the article and it is sound. I know nothing about the nature of the other articles this website publishes. This is nothing like Graham Hancock pseudo-science.
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Right, assuming shipworms could survive the extended period on land.
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Specifically [1]: > At some point between 610 and before 594 BC, Necho reputedly commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians, who it is said in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the mouth of the Nile; and would ther
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The Histories [1] by Herodotus is more than mere speculation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)
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Interesting: > As it can be appreciated, that voyage followed the opposite direction to those that the Portuguese would do centuries later: instead of sail south the Atlantic Ocean and round the Cape of Good Hope to the east, they had to
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> The way to avoid those was to sail around it... The problem was that ships were swept out to sea and couldn't sail in any direction other than certain death (or the Americas). The Volta do Mar gave the Portuguese a safety net to e
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The book Atlantic is where I came across it. Sand shoals force ships into the currents of the North Atlantic Gyre which the Portuguese mastered before tackling the Cape Bojador problem; see Volta do Mar [1] which has a great diagram. T
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> References in Greek texts from the 4th century BC are IMO suggestive of early voyages to the coast of West Africa, the nearest navigable mangrove forests (unless shipworm managed to somehow get carried across the Sinai isthmus) Simon W
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From How China’s ‘Bat Woman’ Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus [1]: > Shi’s team used the antibody test to narrow down the list of locations and bat species to pursue in the quest for genomic clues. After roaming mou
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Exactly, "detected to date". The animal surveillance programs were inadequate at the time of the outbreak and have since been defunded and shutdown altogether.
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The Chimera section claims: > Pangolins and bats don't usually cohabitate, making this somewhat unlikely in nature. Horseshoe bats are nocturnal animals that roost in caves during the day but sometimes practice perch feeding at ni
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Publisher's link for The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene (unrelated): https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393084320
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The update by Rick Hillier is complete [1]. For Ontario residents, the key new information: - clinic holiday shutdown was a mistake; daily operation will now be the norm - first Moderna shipment arrives within 24 hrs, will be distri
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Ontario was the only province to start with this strategy. Retired general Rick Hillier, chair of Ontario's vaccine distribution task force, discussed the strategy in a CBC interview on Dec 14 [1] just before the rollout. [1] https:&#
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Ontario changes COVID-19 vaccination plans after slowing rollout [1]: > Ontario has changed its COVID-19 vaccination plan to give a first dose to as many people as possible and no longer hold second doses in reserve General Rick Hilli
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No, I did not read the footnotes in the longer 49 page pdf in your link, I only scanned the 2 page summary. In the Pre and Postexposure Prophylaxis (The I-MASK+ protocol) section, page 11: > Melatonin (slow release): Begin with 0.3 mg
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Is it based on any evidence besides this paper and its precursor [1]? [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0153-3

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