{"id":4296,"date":"2021-12-10T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:38:12","slug":"and-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=4296","title":{"rendered":"and on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s stream of things read and considered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EXISTENTIAL DREAD, DISTILLED: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/2043894\/what-does-the-ipcc-say-about-climate-change\/\"><br \/>\nWe read the 4000-page IPCC climate report so you don\u2019t have to<\/a><\/p>\n<li>Mark Belan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markabelan\/status\/1429048784600903691\">visualization of terrestrial biomass<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2021\/12\/10\/animated-map-of-microplastics-in-the-ocean\/\">Animated map of microplastics in the ocean<\/a> Joshua Stevens, data from 2017-2018\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/new-sars-cov-2-variants-have-changed-pandemic-what-will-virus-do-next\">New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next?<\/a> (Science, 19 August 2021)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2021\/12\/with-eye-on-omicron-harvard-experts-fear-surge-upon-a-surge\/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020211210%20(1)\">Scientists race to define Omicron threat, worried about &#8216;surge upon a surge<\/a> (Harvard Gazette, 10 December 2021)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eand.co\/if-you-think-covid-is-over-think-again-8863059ac6f\">If You Think Covid is Over, Think Again<\/a> (Umair Haque on Why It&#8217;s Going to Be Another Long, Bleak Covid Winter)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jessicalexicus.medium.com\/sorry-im-not-buying-the-mild-omicron-argument-c49b2fe10e64\">Sorry, I&#8217;m Not Buying The &#8220;Mild&#8221; Omicron Argument<\/a> (Jessica Wildfire)\n<p>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-big-oil-rigs-the-system-to-keep-winning-1848180128\">How Big Oil Rigs the System to Keep Winning<\/a> (Naomi Oreskes and Jeff Nesbit)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2021\/11\/04\/a-perfect-storm-the-chocolate-coffee-and-climate-crises\/\">A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises<\/a> (Randall Mayes)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/persons-of-interest\/the-man-who-predicted-climate-change\">Syukuro Manabe, The Man Who Predicted Climate Change<\/a> (Stephen Witt, New Yorker)\n<p><li>and:<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/5344e5755e597df0c8c1ce8499053928\/1cde718888f3d509-8d\/s640x960\/b05ab35c38a933940e3c2a533b058b2d62181bb0.jpg\"><\/center>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s stream of things read and considered: EXISTENTIAL DREAD, DISTILLED: We read the 4000-page IPCC climate report so you don\u2019t have to Mark Belan&#8217;s visualization of terrestrial biomass Animated map of microplastics in the ocean Joshua Stevens, data from 2017-2018 New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next? (Science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,36,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy","category-epidemiology","category-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}