Day: February 16, 2021

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Early Walk

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I decided to do my evening walk 🚶🏻 right after work tonight to avoid icy sidewalks. I am glad I did, things are icing up good now that it’s below freezing although the strong winds 🍃 with the coming front have died down. But first more reading about that book about Erastus Corning then an early bed 🛏 I think.

The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR

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The Dual-sector Model of Arthur Lewis : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR

The late economist Arthur Lewis had a reputation as a very kind, principled, quiet and contemplative thinker. And in August of 1952, he was strolling down a road in Bangkok, Thailand — when suddenly he had a flash of insight about a problem that had been baffling him.

Lewis observed that when the economy of a poor country starts growing faster, the new businesses in that country make a lot of money, and they do hire a lot of workers, but it takes a long time before the wages that those businesses pay to workers also start going up. That was the puzzle that Arthur Lewis solved

Inside The Cyber Weapons Arms Race

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Inside The Cyber Weapons Arms Race

2/10/21 by NPR

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/118980596
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2021/02/20210210_fa_fapodweds.mp3?awCollectionId=381444908&awEpisodeId=966360714&orgId=1&d=2922&p=381444908&story=966360714&t=podcast&e=966360714&size=46656462&ft=pod&f=381444908

The world is on the precipice of cyber catastrophe, and everything is vulnerable, including our government, nuclear weapons, elections, power grid, hospitals, and cell phones. ‘New York Times’ cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth explains how the U.S. went from having the world’s strongest cyber arsenal to becoming so vulnerable to cyber attack. “We have to stop leaving gaping holes in software that could be used by adversaries to pull off some of these attacks,” she says. Perlroth’s new book is “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends.”

Shots – Health News : NPR

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COVID-19 Vaccines And Coronavirus Mutations : Shots – Health News : NPR

Viruses also evolve, but the process is different and the result is usually much less severe when it comes to vaccines. When a virus such as the coronavirus infects someone, that person's immune system mounts a response. Viruses produce slight variations when they multiply, and if any of these variants can evade a person's immune response, those variants are more likely to survive and possibly to spread to other people.