Interesting Links for 21-05-2020

[andrewducker]

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all?

(tags:virus pandemic )

Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don't spread the virus at all?

(tags:pandemic virus )

I am very curious as to how this letter from Michel Barnier is landing with the government

(tags:UK Europe Doom )

The Economics of Jane Austen's World

(tags:janeausten economics )

Billions of pounds worth of clothes made in Bangladesh have been cancelled by UK stores. Buy a box half price and help support workers in crisis

(tags:clothing business pandemic )

Marching Band Sound Delay: Drum Major selective hearing 'cuz physics

(tags:physics sound music speed )

Denmark is opening its schools. Here's what they're doing differently to the UK

(tags:Denmark schools UK pandemic )

Love Can't Make You a Villain: How She-Ra's Catra Helped Make Sense of My Heart

(tags:relationships emotion TV )

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

(tags:mathematics )

Mount Everest Is Visible from Kathmandu, Nepal for First Time in Living Memory

(tags:Everest Nepal pollution pandemic )

I would like to live in this surprising house

(tags:housing awesome )

Why Small Children Struggle With Colour Names

(tags:psychology children colour )

Roleplaying Games vs. Storytelling Games

(tags:games roleplaying storytelling )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I liked the article on the economics of Jane Austen.

(I think it missed something when calculating Darcy's wealth. It back solved the capital value of his £10,000 a year, mentioned that he also owned an estate but then didn't add the value of the estate to his capital invested in government debt. I think.)

The comparison of wealth over time interests me greatly. It gets in to the questions of what are we measuring when we measure wealth? What is money? What is inflation? How do we account for changes in technology when dealing with inflation.

The usual comments, Darcy might be in the top few hundred richest people in the UK in 1815 but he has zero access to smallpox vaccination, if he wanted to go to visit Australia it will take a year or two, he can only ever listen to live music.

He also lives in a country where famine and plague are not uncommon and where there is not much pooling of risk through social insurance or socialised health care. Which is not a good country to live in.

[momentsmusicaux]

There's a rather big gap in the colour names research, I think -- they've not compared with languages that put colour adjectives after nouns. Presumably if they're right, children who are native speakers of those languages would do better with colour names.