linkedy links viii

By catdynamics on April 28, 2009.

yes, more swine flu link
save the frog day
reprap
and other random bits

Ok, first the Swine Flu (there's some actual astro and other stuff below):

Revere: Pandemics - seen one...

Revere Channels Jon for the best news summaries

Revere: CFR, virulence and all that

Revere: afternoon briefing

Revere: what did you expect?

Aetiology: 'flu update

Chandar blog: 4-way Cluster Collision

Chandra: Talk To The Hand

100th Carnival of Space - I keep forgetting those...

First Annual Save The Frogs Day!
er, we saved one from the pool yesterday... does that offset the two frogs and three tadpoles the kids decided to relocate to the new habitat they built? (h/t bioephemera)

RepRap - a printed printed circuit
I think this has some potential...

Iran: we like totally pwnd you l00s3rs!

h/t Yorkshire Ranter

Regulatory Capture
or, the "but I know all these guys, and they're so nice, and smart, and hospitable..." syndrome

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linkedy links vi

swine 'flu epidemic passing ship creation of oil and other defining moments all right, serious shit link edition: Effect Measure is all over the swine 'flu outbreak in SoCal and Mexico Revere is not prone to panic: ---- PPS: Saturday Night Weird Story Edition - Read it and ponder. ---- Unusual…

Swine flu: what do CFR, virulence and mortality rate mean?

One of the things we'd like to know about the swine flu virus is its Case Fatality Ratio (CFR, commonly called a case fatality rate, although it isn't technically a rate but a proportion). But what is a CFR? And how is it different from a mortality rate? The CFR is an estimate of the probability…

'flu for theorists

summary of the issues and stakes in the current 'flu outbreak from a more theoretical physics perspective... Three years ago I did a Back of the Envelope Assessment for Bird 'flu: "...So, why worry? As always, because of the low probability, high risk scenario. Taken at face value, there is a ~ 1…

Flu roundup cont'd

Lots of flu news out there. Here's my short list for the day: Helen Branswell reports that WHO is unpersuaded by the unpublished paper showing seasonal flu vaccine may raise chance of getting swine flu. (Anomalies are usually anomalies.) Canada has been thrown into quite a bit of confusion by this…

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