2月15日朝、我が家に届いたNew York Times紙のInternational Edition2面に、紙面の8割を占める大きさで、例の「醜名高い」発言の記事、Yusuke Narita (Assistant Prof. of Yale) による「高齢者集団自決Proposal」事件の記事掲載。日本のメディアで愚言と問題発言繰り返す「人気者」もう1人の写真と。
Shinzo Abe gently contradicted Trump remark that Abe is buying all the corn. Abe: private sector will, not govt.
Trump then gently contradicted Abe with jab at US business.
"Japanese private sector listens to the Japanese public sector. It’s a little different in my country.”
Breaking: Trump says US has excess corn because China has failed to follow through on agreements so Abe is going to be buying all that corn.
“We just agreed to that on the other side of the door,” Trump reveals.
Abe says, well, Japan’s private sector will be buying the corn.
We have a lot of photographs in our collection, but this is perhaps the most iconic. Both boys were exposed to smallpox, but only the boy on the right had previously been vaccinated. The photograph, taken by a doctor working in Leicester, was first published in 1901
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Iceland currently has the highest per capita coronavirus infection rate in the world. But that’s not a bad thing. Because of its small population it is testing everybody, revealing a lot about the virus. Eg, half of all carriers exhibit no symptoms at all.
1/ In science the myth of the lone genius prevails. Rather, we are interconnected, we influence each other, we work together. For
@nature
's 150th we sought to visualize this, revealed in today's issue As there are many strands of work, here is an overview.
Age 15-19 has emerged as currently the age group with the highest rate of
#COVID19
in Germany 🇩🇪.
Also notice kids 5-9 and 10-14 now have the highest infection rates than ever before in the pandemic.
So, yeah, kids do get COVID, and kids to transmit. Full stop.
The CDC's director said new data shows that in rare breakthrough infections, vaccinated people had a "similar" viral load as the unvaccinated — meaning people with breakthroughs of delta may be able to spread it.
日銀黒田総裁がアベノミクスを一時だけ魅力的にした「バズーカ政策」はやはり日銀内部でも失敗したと認識されている。[years of unsuccessful attempts to revive stagnant consumer prices] “After the 'bazooka', Bank of Japan dismantles the work of its radical chief”
In the US, male researchers who gained PhDs in 2017, with jobs lined up, expect to earn median annual salaries of US$88,000, compared with $70,000 for women.
⚠️EXCESS DEATHS in South Africa🇿🇦 are running at 130% of normal in the final 4 weeks of 2021–which translates to >10,000 excess deaths in just 4 weeks. ➡️Excess weekly deaths currently running ~3000 excess per week—SA has had large under-diagnosis like in previous waves.
#Omicron
IAEAの報告書。
130ページほどありますが、何れにしろ一度読んでみることをお薦めします。かなり控えめに書かれている。結局、まだまだ科学でもっても分からないことが沢山あるということです。
Finally, I would like to emphasise that the release of the treated water stored at Fukushima