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Birds
I don't see a lot of goldfinches. The cardinals bar them. They're common and popular birds in many suburbs in the Eastern States. Here is a collection of good goldfinch photos and videos.
Books
New biography of Steve Jobs sounds interesting:
Cybersecurity
It does contain music, albeit not very good music, so I'm willing to link to the lazy guy's lame audio chat...but seriously, people, if you think something is important (yes, this news post is), YOU NEED TO TYPE IT. Nobody has time to listen to all the "but I'll scream the words into the recorder really fast" babble out there. Scream the words into the recorder really fast, and then post the transcription. We need a social rule that it's rude to post a "talk" video without a transcription.
Phenology
Beth Ann Chiles shares a collection of nature photos from North Carolina that happen to look just like things I'm seeing in Virginia this week. I'm seeing lots of Wood Nymphs and Red-Spotted Purple butterflies, too--autumn flyers, less affected by the War On Spongies.
Questions
"There are no stupid questions"...but this one comes close: "Why are schools still cancelling games for COVID?" Duh...because people are still going down with COVID, and although the survival rate is high, young people who do go down with COVID tend to go down hard and fast, sometimes hitting the ground in ways that totally ruin games? Students aren't likely to die from COVID (and yes, a few are more likely to die from reactions to those rush-job vaccines than from COVID itself0 but they are likely to become ill, and school works better when students are not ill.
And yes, if a strain of flu is commonly associated with kids going from lazy at 8:30 a.m. to delirious and passed-out at 9 a.m., it'll be appropriate during the weeks of local circulation to shut down games for flu. If norovirus, the dreaded 24-hour tummybug, has students emptying their digestive systems all over the floor within hours, it's appropriate to shut down school for norovirus. Just because when a lot of kids become ill very fast, the situation is just too messy to allow school to function.
Yes, I went to school during the 1975 swine flu epidemic. With the 1975 swine flu we tended to have one symptom at a time; the rule of symptom triage in common use at the time caused a lot of people to be in school during the shift from wooziness to projectile vomiting. Corridors were always full of little piles of scented sawdust that had been sprinkled over vomit so the janitor could shovel it up half an hour later. It was not conducive to learning. Nor to sports.
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