Anyway here's a California poppy, Eschscholzia californica, at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Preserve earlier this spring
#naturalist
Smarte Brillen: Die perfekte Ausrede, um im Café nicht aufs Handy zu schauen. Die KI übersetzt Schilder, erkennt Gegenstände – und wirkt trotzdem wie eine normale Brille. Nur die Werbung im Supermarkt kann man leider nicht ausblenden. Meta, Apple & Co. bringen uns die Zukunft – ob wir wollen oder nicht ... #Stern
The monster isn't in the machine. It's in the mirror
https://brilliantcrank.com/every-generation-discovers-the-same-monster/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
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"Im #Gaza ist #Antisemitismus Staatsräson, im Gaza stand die Bevölkerung hinter der #Hamas, (...)." Quelle:
Von Nachbarn. Für Nachbarn. Neue Kieztafel im Sprengelkiez.
#meinwedding #berlinwedding #wedding65
new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history