The best part about this is that it’ll be old news in a year. “A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able […]
I overheard breathing coach Nick Sweeney talking about using a breathing technique to fight off infection, so I edged my way into the conversation. The idea is to exhale all your breath and then hold for ~1.5 minutes, activating the […]
“Chicago’s food halls were not built to be busy only three days a week during lunchtime. With Loop office occupancy rates still sagging from the pandemic, the businesses once predicated on vast numbers of customers are being forced to forge […]
“Chicago’s food halls were not built to be busy only three days a week during lunchtime. With Loop office occupancy rates still sagging from the pandemic, the businesses once predicated on vast numbers of customers are being forced to forge […]
“Four years after the toilet paper shortage of 2020, bidet converts say they’re never going back.” ~ learn more
This is fun because you can overfit whatever your preferred explanation is to this outcome. “Scores have been falling for six consecutive years, but the trend accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.” I’d love to see some more granular data, starting […]
Is this happening all over the country? “Last spring, 41.5% of third-graders statewide scored at least proficient in math on the exam, known as the M-STEP. That’s a decline of 5.2 percentage points from 2019, the last time the test […]
Researchers found a cohort of healthcare workers who seemed strangely immune to Covid-19 infections despite high levels of exposure. Thinking the immunity came from other recent coronavirus infections, they found evidence of exactly that. “Mali Maini, senior author on the […]
“Just six weeks earlier, in October 2020, Petal had finalized pricing for manufacturing its germ-freezing trash can, which consumers could use to get rid of germs in their trash and eliminate odors. Then, the cost of manufacturing the product shot […]
In the TV series, there’s a device called a tricorder that detects diseases by waving it over someone’s body. “AMSI’s COVID Hunter™ device would be the world’s first noninvasive touchless viral detector for COVID-19.” | learn more