The driver Daunte Wright was pulled over for a traffic violation by Brooklyn Center, MN police, and in the process of being arrested for an outstanding warrant. He was shot while returning to his car, got in and drove for a short distance, crashing and dying.
Protests have begun ten miles from the site of the Chauvin murder trial in Brooklyn Center Minnesota. Stores have been looted by opportunists and people have been arrested. The National Guard is aiding in crowd control. This officer-involved shooting includes dash and body cam video. …
Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.
My favorite bits from the article include how Dr. Kariko celebrated the fact that the vaccines that used her mRNA research worked
“On Nov. 8, the first results of the Pfizer-BioNTech study came in, showing that the mRNA vaccine offered powerful immunity to the new virus. Dr. Kariko turned to her husband. “Oh, it works,” she said. “I thought so.”
To celebrate, she ate an entire box of Goobers chocolate-covered peanuts. By herself.”
Pretty but I’d probably twist my ankle going across it.
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“The priests of the temple of Zeus at Dodona say that the first prophecies were the words of an oak. Everyone who lived at that time, not being as wise as you young ones are today, found it rewarding enough in their simplicity to listen to an oak or even a stone, so long as it was telling the truth, while it seems to make a difference to you who is speaking and where he comes from. Why, though, don’t you just consider whether what he says is right or wrong?”
— Plato, Phaedrus (via philosophybits)
