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littlemissmartypants's JournalCovid-19 Update: Gov Cooper, 11-17 & Dr. Cohen, 11-18
Governor Cooper 11/17/2020
Dr. Mandy Cohen, NCDHHS
https://video.unctv.org/video/covid-19-update-with-dr-mandy-cohen-november-18-2020-niyqse/
COVID-19 Update with Dr. Mandy Cohen
11/18/2020 | 26m 46s |Video has closed captioning.
The number of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and percent positive tests are at record highs. We ask why and what can be done about it as we talk with DHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen. Also, Dr. Cohen discusses the new guidance regarding Thanksgiving gatherings.
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The gall. Adding insult to injury!
Great job, standing up to that attempt at leveraging his male privilege.
You're absolutely entitled to your legal rights under the law and I would definitely stand firm in my decision to press charges. There needs to be a paper trail so the assisted living facility gets a heads up on her volatile personality.
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Cars Take Over MoMA and the Detroit Institute of Arts
Cars Take Over MoMA and the Detroit Institute of Arts to Explore the 20th Century’s Most Iconic Machines
The two institutions are holding exhibitions dedicated to automobile design and the car's role in shaping culture.
BEN OLIVER
Can a car be art? The curators of two new exhibitions on the topic, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Detroit Institute of Arts, don’t make that claim. But cars were arguably the most iconic objects of the 20th century, and their designs can certainly be brilliant. The best go far beyond a pretty shape, or an intelligent packaging of mechanical components, to reflect and even represent the culture around them. Think of the tail fin and how it became easy visual shorthand for ’50s America.
So cars are certainly appropriate subject matter for major exhibitions, and it’s a pleasing coincidence for enthusiasts that two are slated to open this year. Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020, now scheduled for November at the DIA, is, perhaps surprisingly for the city’s biggest museum, the first to address the automobile there in 35 years, with the exception of a 1996 photography show. It assembles a dozen concept and production cars designed in Detroit between 1950 and the present day, along with original, often exuberant sketches by Motor City designers and what curator Ben Colman describes as “a small and judicious selection” of paintings, sculpture and other objects that illustrate how deeply Detroit design is embedded in American popular culture.
“Choosing just a dozen cars from that entire period was enormously challenging,” he says. “The goal was never to tell an encyclopedic history of Detroit, but to pick a few of its key moments and most influential cars.” “We talked to as many car designers as possible to gauge that influence,” Colman adds. “It’s not the fastest or the biggest seller that we’re interested in here. It’s what designers see when they close their eyes or when they dream at night.”
To give the exhibition some visual coherence, Colman and his team decided to focus solely on coupes and sedans, and not the pickups and SUVs Detroit also makes and whose rise in popularity in recent years has had a greater social and environmental impact.
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More at the link.
https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/moma-detroit-institute-arts-automobile-exhibitions-2913376/
General Motors’ Firebird III, 1958, at the DIA. General Motors Heritage/Detroit Institute of Arts
Lincoln XL-500 Concept Car, 1952, designed by Charles E. Balogh. Collection of Robert L. Edwards and Julie Hyde-Edwards/DIA
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9 Low-Stress Side Hustles For Introverts That Pay Surprisingly Well
Whether you're looking for a lucrative side hustle that can replace your job or a simple way to earn some extra spending money, here are nine ideal side jobs for introverts.
R.J. Weiss
Updated November 16, 2020
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In fact, this short guide has now been shared over 100,000 times on social media. The best part? All of these ideas are working GREAT right now.
Let’s dive in!
#1) Get Paid To Test Products At Home
Here’s how it works: market research companies send you free products to test out and share your opinion on. You simply use the products (which are yours to keep) and then get paid for sharing your thoughts. A fun way for introverts to make some extra income is to become a product tester.
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#2) The Side Job For People Who Love To Read
Love to read? Love spotting errors? Love to work independently? If so, you probably have the makings of a successful proofreader. Proofreading doesn’t require certification, and the explosion of web content in recent years has skyrocketed demand for reliable freelancers in the field. Plus, you can do it as either a side hustle or a full-time career.
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#3) Become A Bookkeeper
How would you like to make your own schedule, working where and when you want? Those are the potential benefits of starting your own bookkeeping business according to Ben Robinson, an accountant and business owner who has helped over 3,000 people do just that. And no, you don’t need to be a CPA or have prior accounting experience. All you need are a few basic computer skills and a love for numbers.
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#4) Make Money While You’re Watching TV
Did you know market research companies will pay you to answer questions on your phone, even while you’re watching TV? It won’t make you rich, but it’s certainly one of the most popular ways to make extra money.
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More at the link.
https://www.thewaystowealth.com/make-money/jobs-for-introverts/
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Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020
Stanford neurobiologist Andrew Huberman discusses the two things we can always control, even during a high-stress election and scary COVID pandemic
By Jessica Wapner on November 16, 2020
Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020
Credit: Bonnie Tarpey Getty Images
We are living through an inarguably challenging time. The U.S. has been facing its highest daily COVID-19 case counts yet. Uncertainty and division continue to dog the aftermath of the presidential election. And we are heading into a long, cold winter, when socializing outdoors will be less of an option. We are a nation and a world under stress.
But Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist at Stanford University who studies the visual system, sees matters a bit differently. Stress, he says, is not just about the content of what we are reading or the images we are seeing. It is about how our eyes and breathing change in response to the world and the cascades of events that follow. And both of these bodily processes also offer us easy and accessible releases from stress.
Huberman’s assertions are based on both established and emerging science. He has spent the past 20 years unraveling the inner workings of the visual system. In 2018, for example, his lab reported its discovery of brain pathways connected with fear and paralysis that respond specifically to visual threats. And a small but growing body of research makes the case that altering our breathing can alter our brain. In 2017 Mark Krasnow of Stanford University, Jack Feldman of the University of California, Los Angeles, and their colleagues identified a tight link between neurons responsible for controlling breathing and the region of the brain responsible for arousal and panic.
This growing understanding of how vision and breathing directly affect the brain—rather than the more nebulous categories of the mind and feelings—can come in handy as we continue to face mounting challenges around the globe, across the U.S. and in our own lives. Scientific American spoke with Huberman about how it all works.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows.]
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More at the link.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vision-and-breathing-may-be-the-secrets-to-surviving-2020/
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In His Spare Time, Immigrant Noubar Afeyan Has Started 38 Companies In America
In His Spare Time, Immigrant Noubar Afeyan
(Co-founder and chairman of Moderna)
Has Started 38 Companies In America
Stuart Anderson Senior Contributor
Leadership Strategy
I write about globalization, business, technology and immigration.
Starting one successful company is a fine achievement. How does one describe someone who has helped found 38 companies?
Noubar Afeyan was born to Armenian parents in Lebanon. At the age of 13, he immigrated with his family to Canada and attended college there. Noubar was accepted to a Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the time the only school with an advanced program in biochemical engineering.
After earning his Ph.D. at the age of 24, Noubar started his first company. Snip...
“Immigrants have started more than half (44 of 87) of America’s startup companies valued at $1 billion or more and are key members of management or product development teams in over 70% (62 of 87) of these companies,” according to the NFAP study. These billion dollar startups with at least one immigrant founder have created an average of more than 700 jobs per company. In 1999, Noubar evaluated the way his startups were formed – and startups in general – and thought perhaps the often disjointed, “trial and error” approach typical of startups could be reduced to something more systematic and organized. That’s when he founded Flagship Ventures, which develops new companies through its in-house division VentureLabs. It also invests in startups. Snip...
Noubar has over 100 patents to his name.
Moderna Therapeutics, which Noubar cofounded and helps lead as chairman, may be Flagship Ventures’ most successful startup. Founded in 2009, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company is already valued at $3 billion and employs over 300 people. Breakthroughs in using messenger RNA or mRNA have fueled growth and raised expectations for Moderna Therapeutics. CNBC named the company “number one” on its 2015 Disruptor 50 list. “Instead of making protein medicines in factories very far away, what we are trying to do is to inject you with messenger RNA so that your own body will make the protein” said Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s French-born president and CEO, in a 2015 CNBC interview.
In January 2016, Moderna announced it had become a clinical stage company when it launched its first human trial, a Phase I study to treat patients with infectious diseases with investigational mRNA therapeutics in Europe. Snip...Moderna Therapeutics is a company with the potential to benefit the health of millions of people. The irony is it may never have come into being if Noubar Afeyan had not been accepted to MIT. Noubar says what he liked about the atmosphere at MIT as an international student is that the school was merit-based. “Nobody felt they had an advantage over you just because they were born in the United States and you weren’t. It was a very good environment and remains so.”
Noubar believes being an immigrant and an entrepreneur are complementary. Snip...
More at the link.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2016/03/19/in-his-spare-time-immigrant-noubar-afeyan-has-started-38-companies-in-america/
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Hurricane Drunk, by Florence and the Machine
Hurricane Drunk
No walls can keep me protected
No sleep
Nothing in between me and the rain
And you can't save me now
I'm in the grip of a hurricane
I'm gonna blow myself away
I'm going out
I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd
I see you with someone else
I brace myself
'Cause I know it's going to hurt
But I like to think at least things can't get any worse
No hope
Don't want shelter
No calm
Nothing to keep me from the storm
And you can't hold me down
'Cause I belong to the hurricane
It's gonna blow this all away
I'm going out
I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd
I see you with someone else
I brace myself
'Cause I know it's going to hurt
But I like to think at least things can't get any worse
I hope that you see me
'Cause I'm staring at you
But when you look over
You look right through
Then you lean and kiss her on the head
And I never felt so alive
And so dead
I'm going out
I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd
I see you with someone else
I brace myself
'Cause I know it's going to hurt
I'm going out
I'm going out
I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd
I see you with someone else
I brace myself
'Cause I know it's going to hurt
I'm going out
I'm going out
I'm going out
I'm going out
I'm going out
I'm going out
Songwriters: Florence Leontine Mary Welch / Francis Eg White
Hurricane Drunk lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG Rights Management
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Watch a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop
Watch a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time
Of the three collaborations jazz singer Cab Calloway made with cute cartoon legend Betty Boop, this 1933 Max Fleischer-directed “Snow White” is probably the most successful. It certainly is the most strange—more hallucinatory than the first in the series “Minnie the Moocher”, and less slapstick-driven than “The Old Man of the Mountain.” It is a singular marvel and rightly deserves being deemed “culturally significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1994. It was also voted #19 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time in a poll of leading animators.
When she made her debut in 1930, Betty Boop would have been recognizable to audiences as the embodiment of the flapper and the sexual freedom of the Jazz Age that was currently in free-fall after the Wall Street crash of 1929. Only a few years before her premiere, Boop would have been the mascot of the age; now she was a bittersweet reminder of a time that had already passed. With a champagne bubble of a voice, kiss curls, daring hemline, plunging neckline, and the ever present garter belt, she was a cartoon character definitely not designed for kids. That her best films are collaborations with Cab Calloway attest to that. Calloway would make sure his Betty Boop cartoons would screen in a city a week or two before he would play a gig. His “advance woman” as he called her helped sell more tickets.
Accompanying her in this film are the Fleischer’s original character Koko the Clown and Bimbo the Pup, which for this film are sort of empty vessels: they protect Betty, they get knocked out, and Koko gets inhabited by the spirit of Cab Calloway, who then turns into a ghost, all legs and head, no torso. (The ghost is animated through rotoscoping over Calloway’s own film footage.) The Queen, whose talking mirror changes his mind over “the fairest in the land” once seeing Betty Boop, sentences her to death, and then chases her through the underworld before turning into a dragon. At the end, Boop and her gang turn the dragon inside out like a sock, a gross gag not seen again (I’m going to guess) until one of the Simpsons’ Halloween Specials.
In the middle of all this bouncy, surreal mayhem is Calloway’s ghost singing “St. James Infirmary Blues,” a mournful tale of a dead girlfriend and the singers plans for the funeral. The origin of the song is shrouded in mystery, possibly a folk ballad by way of New Orleans jazz. Whatever the source, Koko/Cab sings it to the now frozen and entombed Betty Boop, with the seven dwarves as pallbearers. Koko/Cab turns into a number of objects during his dance, including a bottle of booze and a coin on a chain.
More at the link.
https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/watch-a-surreal-1933-animation-of-snow-white.html
Betty Boop is my spirit animal.
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Prehistoric hunters weren't all male. Women killed big game, new discovery suggests
Prehistoric hunters weren't all male. Women killed big game, new discovery suggests
By Katie Hunt, CNN
Updated 2:00 PM EST, Wed November 04, 2020
(CNN)Men hunted. Women gathered. That has long been the prevailing view of our prehistoric ancestors.
But the discovery of a woman buried 9,000 years ago in the Andes Mountains with weapons and hunting tools, and an analysis of other burial sites in the Americas challenges this widely accepted division of labor in hunter-gatherer society.
The woman, thought to be between 17 and 19 years old when she died, was buried with items that suggested she hunted big-game animals by spear throwing -- stone projectile points for felling large animals, a knife and flakes of rock for removing internal organs, and tools for scraping and tanning hides.
"Labor practices among recent hunter-gatherer societies are highly gendered, which might lead some to believe that sexist inequalities in things like pay or rank are somehow 'natural,'" said lead study author Randy Haas, an assistant professor of anthropology at University of California, Davis, in a news release.
"But it's now clear that sexual division of labor was fundamentally different -- likely more equitable -- in our species' deep hunter-gatherer past."
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Much more at the link.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/americas/prehistoric-female-hunter-burial-scn/index.html
I cross posted this here from the Anthropology group as an example of how women's "traditional roles" have mistakenly led to wrong conclusions when defining our actual roles in history. That is until now as evidenced by this discovery.
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