Yeonwoo Lebovitz, PhD @ywlebo@qoto.org

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

@crosscutanne @ywlebo correct, which is why $/CADR under required noise levels is so important eg US under 45dBA https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17j6FZwvqHRFkGoH5996u5JdR7tk4_7fNuTxAK7kc4Fk/edit#gid=1662890714&fvid=1567673968
(Google filterviews must be veiwed on a non-mobile browser)

COVID causes long-term smell loss in some patients and we don't know why. We've got some initial answers in this great collaboration between Brad Goldstein's lab (where the work was led by John Findlay) and by our lab (with the amazing David Brann and Tatsuya Tsukahara)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.add0484

A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia

The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee

#BlackMastodon
#tuesdayvibe 😻

https://abcnews.go.com/US/henrietta-lacks-hometown-build-statue-robert-lee-sculpture/story?id=95541987&fbclid=IwAR1gu8U2lBELLPxSTng6D_V0jTUkGNDh00K7OOR9Is-WwaRQCzePVqt8WMc

Even mild COVID infection increases risk of blood clots and death

A study in the UK found that mild (non-hospitalized) infections led to a 2.7x higher risk of blood clots and 10.2x higher risk of death compared to controls ( https://heart.bmj.com/node/174901.full ). H/T: @lauramiers@Twitter.com 🧵 1/

Sandy Hook happened 10 years ago today. At the time, people said "how many more children have to die before we do something to stop the killing?"

The answer: 25,000

25,000 children killed by guns in America in the last decade.

And still virtually nothing has been done.

Restarting the free rapid test program is not enough. The White House needs to launch a program to send FREE N95 masks to everyone through the mail. Why not include masks with the tests they send?

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy - Nature

A study reports the distribution, replication and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the human body including in the brain at autopsy from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset.

#COVID

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05542-y

Germicidal UV: a tradeoff between disinfection and indoor smog

A Substack (blog) post with a first estimate of the magnitude of the tradeoff.

TLDR: still uncertain, but GUV smog is likely to be a significant concern, needs to be carefully evaluated.

https://jljcolorado.substack.com/p/germicidal-uv-a-tradeoff-between

After dumping #Helsinki’s car-centric 1968 plan, the #Finns embarked on a decades-long campaign to slow motor vehicles. “In the 1970s it was normally 50km/h in cities; then in 2000 it went down to 40km/h. Now more than half our urban streets have a 30km/h limit.”

#cities #VisionZero #urbanism #SpeedKills #SpeedLimits #transportation #safety https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/helsinki-finland-s-amazing-traffic-safety-record-explained

Really awoken to the possibility of teaching/learning more about the actual history Thanksgiving based on posts I saw today. I will try using this guide with my son tomorrow.

https://neaedjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NASS-Thanksgiving-Booklet-Print-Ready.pdf?_ga=2.170064416.1279652381.1664808613-734908655.1664808613

Which I found through this article:
https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-thanksgiving-thoughtfully

I know at least some of the massacres, land theft and genocide that we as Americans have committed against Native Americans but oddly I never really saw how badly I was taught/learned about Thanksgiving as a child. Hopefully I will build a stronger foundation for my children in understanding and reconciling with the past.

Wow, not only have the MTA taken down the problematic "You Do You" anti-mask signs, they have now reinstated signs encouraging New Yorkers to mask up!

Thank you to high risk and disabled New Yorkers and groups like Mandate Masks NY and Brooklyn BCID for testifying at MTA meetings.

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth #NewYork #PublicTransport #BringBackMasks

And our pediatric capacity has been eroding over time, in part because of the simple (and ugly) fact that kids are less profitable than adults for hospitals.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/26/opinion/who-will-care-our-sickest-children-pediatric-hospitals-are-turning-some-them-away/?p1=Article_Inline_Text_Link

A tripledemic hurricane is making landfall. We need masks, not just tent hospitals

With Covid, RSV, and influenza hospitals are on the brink. We need masks and other measures to reduce spread.

#COVID #CovidIsNotOver #BringBackMasks #RSV #Influenza

https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/22/tripledemic-hurricane-include-community-prevention-efforts/?s=09