Favorites January 8th 2022

Paul Mainwood @PaulMainwood

ICNARC have updated their analysis of COVID patients in critical care in England, Wales and NI. They now show boosted patients as well. They are shown in green. Yes, I've put them on the chart. You have to squint.

A good reminder if you're super worried about Omicron and you're Boosted, it's still no fun, but it doesn't appear to be nearly as dangerous.

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

Amazing 1881 map of travel times from London (via @emollick) <10 days: Most of Europe 10-20: NYC, Chicago, Jerusalem 20-30: Calgary, northern India 30-40: Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Siberia 40+ days: most of Australia

From a century and a half away, all travel by boats looks slow, but putting engines on ships made things surprisingly fast.

Spaceflight Now @SpaceflightNow

Mike Menzel, JWST’s mission systems engineer at NASA, says 49 of the mission’s original list of 344 single-point failures remain open, and won’t be retired for the rest of the mission. "These 49 are typical of all missions, things like propulsion tanks."

spaceflightnow.comLive coverage: Webb telescope deploys primary mirror – Spaceflight Now

I wondered offhand previously how many single points of failure there are on a less complicated mission, and now here's the answer, 49 single points of failure after reaching orbit is normal. Wow

SwiftOnSafety @SwiftOnSecurity

Inside a Boeing 777's datacenter

At first this looked sorta small, like it's a crawlspace, but this is a full height hallway! So many computers!

Sabina Vohra-Miller @SabiVM

Can confirm Moderna was asked to increase enrollment in their pediatric trial. End of Jan study close has been pushed out. This is really heartbreaking because Moderna already increased trial size last year (Pfizer didn’t). Rapidly increasing hospitalizations in <5 is concerning.

Bill Hartman, MD, PhD @hartman_bill

@meghgrace Regulators have asked to expand enrollment which increases the timeline. Enhances the efficacy and safety profiles which are the most important parts of these trials. Takes time, but we only have one chance to get it right!! Everyone is working around the clock.

Suddenly parents of 4 year olds are realizing their kids are actually 5 years old and don't have any identification.

Chise 🧬🧫🦠💉 @sailorrooscout

Just a heads up. Regarding “Deltacron” or the “new variant” out of Cyprus. Please be aware those sequences being reported by media outlets right now appear to be due to contamination. It is NOT a new variant.

Just in case you come across the "deltacron" thing. For better or worse, fear gets clicks.

Lake Tahoe, 2022

I’m still trying to figure out how to take interesting macro photos of snow, I don’t think I’ve quite got it yet.