Interesting Links for 24-12-2021

[andrewducker]

Ancient mass migration transformed Britons' DNA

(tags:genetics UK prehistory language )

Omicron needs to be 90% less severe to avoid large wave in hospital admissions

(tags:NHS Doom Pandemic virus )

People With Omicron Are 50-70% Less Likely To Be Hospitalised Than Other Covid Cases

(tags:NHS Pandemic Doom UK )

The consolidation of the games industry continues apace

(tags:games business )

New muscle layer in human jaw discovered

(tags:biology humans teeth )

Did dinosaurs have a similar pre-hatching posture to modern birds?

(tags:dinosaurs eggs birds fossils )

Drone shows are really impressive nowadays!

(tags:drone pretty viaSwampers )

From apanthropy to zwodder, an A-Z of Christmas

(tags:Christmas language viaDanielDWilliam )

Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers

(tags:food 3dprinting lasers )

Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed

(tags:speed teaching videos education psychology )

Comments

[calimac]

2-3) Figuring out how much of this is due to differences in the virus, to changes in the number of vaccinated people and the efficacy of the vaccine, or to variations in the data stream, is enough to cause retirement from the fray in confusion.

10) I'm not sure I know how to speed up an online video, but I do know that putting on some music (classical, instrumental) as a quiet background for a ponderous lecture makes it go much more pleasantly. It also makes really good sense that reviewing the lecture just before a test improved retention of the material. That's how I always studied for tests back in the day. I'd figure I should have already learned this stuff the first time, so all I needed was a quick review of my notes and readings. This while other students were frantically cramming.