Author Archives: Diana ben-Aaron

swearing, no screaming

Howard Dean had a Zoom call with Democrats Abroad today. There was self-redacted swearing but no screaming. Dean is now in charge of the Dem clearinghouse of voter data which aims to source information from different organizations to identify voters … Continue reading →

Posted on 15 June 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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no way out

Former Commerce Secretary Robert Reich on yesterday’s livestream from Democrats Abroad UK. Some notes: – Reich says we’re at a once in a hundred years crisis, a “triple barreled emergency” of “pandemic, econom[ic collapse], and racism and its consequences.”– Calls … Continue reading →

Posted on 29 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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panic don’t panic

Red alert, day 75. Lockdown, day 65. Private Eye is doing a good job of covering the pandemic these days, not a surprise for the last investigations-focused news organ left. (Cleverly camouflaged with the cover and center section of humor … Continue reading →

Posted on 26 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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partial explanations

Red alert, day 74. Lockdown, day 64. More of Warren Weaver, this time on scientific explanation. Many of us have thought the following, for example when reading bad wall texts in science museums, but Weaver, with the confidence of the … Continue reading →

Posted on 25 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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polarity problems

Red alert, day 73. Lockdown, day 63. Here’s a more durable excerpt from the autobiography of Warren Weaver, the science administrator discussed yesterday. Relevant to studies of qualia and evaluation/Appraisal: [I have had a lifelong curiosity] about the magnitude of … Continue reading →

Posted on 24 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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scene of change

Red alert, day 72. Lockdown, day 62. I continue to note the counts for each day in a notebook, and they are still alarming. Marscon (January, Virginia) now takes the prize for farthest-off cancellation. The house cleanout in 2018 unearthed … Continue reading →

Posted on 23 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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tell me more

Red alert, day 71. Lockdown, day 61. Friday of spring Bank Holiday weekend in the UK, Helluntai weekend in Finland [1] and Memorial Day weekend in the US. Today I met T in the park for a chat again. There … Continue reading →

Posted on 22 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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stand still, stay silent

Red alert, day 59. Lockdown, day 49. Stand Still Stay Silent is of course a webcomic. Finally a simple, population-normalized graph has made it onto social media. It is possibly dodgy, depending on how much we trust the reported figures, … Continue reading →

Posted on 10 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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6 May Wed

Red alert, day 55. Lockdown, day 45.  // Suffolk has 936 (+40) confirmed cases in today’s figures, neighboring Essex has 2320 (+76, about 2X Suffolk population) cases and Tower Hamlets has 591 (+5, about 0.5X Suffolk population) confirmed cases as … Continue reading →

Posted on 6 May 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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Red alert, day 48. Lockdown, day 38. Waiting for today’s figures. Some food stalls at the Ipswich Market will reopen on Friday with distance markers. Construction has resumed in Ipswich. The sound of drills was not missed while it was … Continue reading →

Posted on 29 April 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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Red alert, day 47. Lockdown, day 37. County figures were not updated today. The BBC checker still gives figures for April 27. The UK has recorded 161,145 cases on 763,387 tests (+43,563 , some on the same people). A total … Continue reading →

Posted on 28 April 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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Red alert, day 46. Lockdown, day 36. Suffolk has 936 (+40) confirmed cases in today’s figures, neighboring Essex has 2320 (+76, about 2X Suffolk population) cases and Tower Hamlets has 591 (+5, about 0.5X Suffolk population) confirmed cases as of … Continue reading →

Posted on 27 April 2020 by Diana ben-Aaron
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