Collaborate Disseminate
Nearly a decade ago I wrote about the increase in bicycle sales after disasters. I won’t go into why people moved away from these logical options for transportation and to the illogical gasoline automobile. Kunstler does a good job of that in The… Continue reading Bicycles Deemed Best NYC Transit During Pandemic
I’ve written several times recently about big data and visualization issues for the COVID-19 pandemic. March 3: Visualizing Coronavirus Spread: Many Tools, Results Vary Widely March 8: America Admits to Cooking its Numbers on Coronavirus March 11… Continue reading “Please Inform Your Readers”: Best and Worst Visualizations of COVID-19
Psychologists believe the hoarding behavior during crisis is related to a sense of control. It’s ironic because it exhibits instead both a lack of control as well as a transfer of power from the individual to large corporations known to use their… Continue reading Why Hoard Hand Sanitizer if Soap Works Better?
Here’s the quick summary of the 2008 Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism (PDF): RECOMMENDATION 1: The United States should undertake a series of mutually reinforcing domestic measures to … enhance t… Continue reading 2008 U.S. Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism
File this “Aviation Without Borders: Integrated Humanitarian Solutions” site under safety awareness campaigns. Free posters have been translated into 21 languages describe how to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 Our posters provide basic… Continue reading Learn new languages while practicing COVID-19 safety
Back in September 2014 there was an excellent article on FP called “Why Big Data Missed Early Warning Signs of Ebola” It’s an inspirational story that is a common refrain in the big data world — sophisticated computer algorithms… Continue reading Why Big Data Missed Early Warning Signs of COVID-19
Supposedly the Medal of Freedom allows the occupant of the White House to award “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endea… Continue reading US Awards Highest Civilian Award to 1980s “Ambassador of Apartheid”
I’m being told a hidden science laboratory has been revealed deep inside an American corporation, tasked with finding a final solution to the problem of staff productivity loss from illness. As weird and twisted as this may sound for a national h… Continue reading Amazon Secretly Researching How to Eliminate Sick Workers
A tragic day in America as the White House occupants have openly stated they’re actively manipulating coronavirus case numbers for political reasons. …[He is as or more] concerned about the political fallout of the growing number of coronav… Continue reading America Admits to Cooking its Numbers on Coronavirus
Twenty years after the American Embassy in Nairobi was bombed, a Memorial Park now sits at the junctions of Avenues named after Moi (2nd President of Kenya) and Haile Selassie (Emperor of Ethiopia). A memorial wall commemorates names of the more than 2… Continue reading This Day in History: Bombing of American Embassy in Nairobi