Amanda Gorman was the nation’s first youth poet laureate. She delivered this poem, “The Hills We Climb,” Wednesday at the inauguration of President Biden.
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Poem: California poet Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hills We Climb’
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021Freakonomics take on “How Do You Reopen a Country?”
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020Listen to this entire Podcast at:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/covid-19-reopen/
Here are some excerpts:
Steve Dubner recently called up Steve Levitt, his Freakonomics friend and co-author. He’s an economist at the University of Chicago — which, like all schools, has moved to remote teaching.
DUBNER: So, Levitt, how’s your sheltering in place going, generally?
LEVITT: Not too bad. I’m lucky I didn’t lose my job and I’m healthy. I don’t really like people that much in the first place so I don’t mind being isolated. So I know other people are really suffering, but I’ve been super lucky.
DUBNER: So let me ask you this: How useful would you say that economists have been so far during this pandemic?
LEVITT: I think economists didn’t really have a very big role in the beginning and the middle, in the sense that it was really more like a medical issue or a policy issue. But I think on the exit from quarantine, economists can be really important because the tradeoffs we’re talking about here are the kind of tradeoffs that regular people don’t think about very much, like the tradeoff between life and death versus economic activity. I think there’s also just a lot of room for economists here to be sensible guides as we think about what will work and what won’t work.
Covid Near You – Participate in a Harvard Medical School Citizen Science Project
Friday, March 27th, 2020Source: Science Friday
As suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 skyrocket in the United States, testing availability remains limited, leaving people wondering if their cough is something to worry about. But testing isn’t just a balm for anxiety—public health officials need data about how far the new virus has spread to make decisions about how to best protect people, and where to send critical resources, like masks and gowns. Accurate information is the frontline of defense, but scientists still have pressing questions about the novel disease. For instance, how many people who are infected actually have symptoms? If you do have symptoms, how likely are you to get severely sick?
Until we are able to test both healthy and symptomatic people at scale, citizen science can help fill the gaps in tracking who has COVID-19. And the public health team that launched Flu Near You to track seasonal flu symptoms is now doing just that: soliciting your symptoms in the Covid Near You project.
Covid Near You co-founder John Brownstein of Boston Children’s Hospital explains what questions the project may help answer, and what trends Covid Near You will track—including why this data is so valuable to public health efforts. Sign up at www.covidnearyou.org to report how you’re feeling—whether you’re healthy or have symptoms.
DesignWest Improv in San Jose
Saturday, May 4th, 2013‘Not EDA‘ is a new blog we have started to share stories and articles about things that have nothing to do with Electronic Design, but Electronic Design Industry Professionals would certainly find them interesting.
We asked the DesignWest 2013 participants to show their stand-up-comedic talents and they came through in a big way in the following hilarious acts. These are the rising stars in the Techie Stand-up Comedy World. You may see them in the future at an ‘Improv’ theater. But just know that you saw them here first.
Be forewarned that some of the jokes are PG-13.
Feel free to send me interesting or funny stories, articles, videos, jokes that you want to share with our audience. You will have a chance to show off your talents at the DAC Conference in Austin on June 3 – 5 if you are attending. Be sure to stop by our booth # 424 to have us record a joke or funny anecdote.
Ted Talk: “The death of innovation, the end of growth” by Robert Gordon & rebuttal by Erik Brynjolfsson
Friday, April 26th, 2013‘Not EDA’ is a new blog we have started to share stories and articles about things that have nothing to do with Electronic Design, but Electronic Design Industry Professionals would certainly find them interesting.
The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which could move the US into a period of stasis we can’t innovate our way out of. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Erik Brynjolfsson listed as the second video below.
