Favorites January 5th 2022

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

Change comes gradually, then suddenly.

Jim Farley @jimfarley98

In Sept., due to huge demand for #F150Lightning, we doubled our production plan from 40k to 80k trucks per year. The demand keeps growing, so we're doubling it again and now plan to produce 150,000 annually. America wants an all-electric @Ford F-150 and we plan to deliver.⚡️ https://t.co/xpyLKApLol

If we want to get off gasoline, this is what progress looks like.

Michael Lin, PhD-MD 🧬 @michaelzlin

While our attention was diverted by Omicron, FDA approved the viral mutagen molnupiravir (MOV) on the last business day before Christmas. The same time, Merck published that MOV doesn't reduce virus levels in the first 3 days. So patients will be shedding mutated virus for 3 days

Another case where the FDA should consider cost/benefit

David Byler @databyler

So this is something fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/refl…

If you're wondering who the Republican primary frontrunner is. Plus the other Republicans are all afraid of him.

This Morning @thismorning

Obsessed with Alison's reaction to vegan chicken nuggets 😂

As Jerusalem Demsas commented: "It’s really lovely to watch someone just delight in how scientific achievement is making the world a better place in such a small and important way"

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

You can’t truly appreciate how dumb English spelling rules are until you have to explain them to a 6 year old.

Gotta admit, I'm not looking forward to this.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

This is interesting, rare to get prevalence data on a local population of this size (44,000 test results submitted)

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

DC public schools required every teacher and student to test before schools re-open tomorrow. 7 percent of staff and 5 percent of students were positive. https://t.co/y6HoXSNTtG

Super interesting, I wonder what the rate of symptoms was.

November 2021, San Francisco