Feb. 24, 2021
Wed. 02/24 - How Childhood Illness Can Shape Future Immune Response
How the flu you had as a kid could shape your immune response to future flu viruses. A bunch of videos have been going viral showing snow not melting when held up against a flame, but it’s not a conspiracy. It’s science. And the first song produced using the audio recorded on Mars.
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Links:
- The immune effects of childhood viruses are even more complicated than we thought (Popular Science)
- How Childhood Infections Could Shape Pandemics (UPMC)
- TikTok Users Are Burning Snowballs in Viral Videos to 'Prove' the Snow is Fake (Gizmodo)
- Snow that doesn't melt! Is it a government conspiracy?! (Hint: no.) (The Bad Astronomer, YouTube)
- No, the snow isn't government-generated. This is what a snowball does when you take a lighter to it. (Politifact)
- The episode about the LA musician who helped design the Perseverance microphones (Kottke Ride Home)
- Hello, Mars (Foxannemusic, Soundcloud)
- 'Hello, Mars' music video (VideoFromSpace, YouTube)
- Foxanne: It's real (I knew it) (Foxanne, Bandcamp)
- Pass n' Puff Football (Indiegogo)
- Renegades: Born in the USA (Spotify)
- Buy this ranch and Area 51 will be your next-door neighbor (Boing Boing)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
