Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: troubling details on Long Covid; news from the treatment front; and Minnesota’s Covid notification app. Plus the accustomed frippery. Minnesota’s Covid notification app Yesterday I downloaded and installed COVIDaware … Continue reading →
If you haven’t seen the movie Fight Club, you probably still know the first rule of Fight Club: don’t tell anyone about Fight Club. Well, Covid-19 (or in my case cancer) Fight Club turns this rule on its head: tell … Continue reading →
We have been using terms like “viral video,” “viral post,” and “go viral” since the early days of the web. In these pandemic times their use is dropping off. Writing in Technology Review, Abby Ohlheiser reflects on how she grew … Continue reading →
Zoom gives us some ability to simulate some portion of in-person interaction, and for that we are profoundly grateful (for the most part). We do love to grouse about what Zoom can’t do, i.e. what it misses out of the … Continue reading →
For many of us Zoom has become a way of life. The tool has its discontents, but I have pretty much made my peace with it. This week marked a milestone of sorts because it contained two days in which … Continue reading →
Stop the presses. Vox has produced the definitive (so far) meta-, meta-analysis of memes in the time of coronavirus: Choose your quarantine meme house: A taxonomy of the pandemic’s greatest meme hits. It’s a tour-de-force of analyzing and cataloging what … Continue reading →
These memes are sprouting like weeds all across the social media where I hang out. Here are my favorites so far. It would be futile to try to keep up as more appear. As early as 7 weeks ago there … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve seen some of these: people recreating works of art using whatever props come to hand while isolating at home. Toilet paper. Lots of toilet paper. The NY Times ran a feature on the phenomenon two weeks back, and … Continue reading →
At age 35, I’m about to take my very first online course. I somehow managed to avoid online coursework while I was an undergraduate and surprisingly avoided it while in graduate school. Honestly, I would have welcomed some form of … Continue reading →
Don’t know about you, but I am spending significant time in Zoom lately. And it is exhausting. Today I had just one Zoom meeting, with seven participants. It went about an hour. I got up after leaving the meeting physically … Continue reading →
