Sunday, March 1, 2020

CoronaVirus: From Richard Dawkins: "Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus" * * "Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ? in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with simulation - in GooglePoly ? * * * Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London * * In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 * * Non-theist Friends Network A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography * Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/. You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - and Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - which explicitly touches on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love.


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Dear Rob Califf MD, Prof Greely, Peter Norvig and All,

From Richard Dawkins:
"Here's Why It's Taking So Long to Develop a Vaccine For The New Coronavirus"
ROB GRENFELL & TREVOR DREW, THE CONVERSATION 17 FEB 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/who-says-a-coronavirus-vaccine-is-18-months-away
( https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20 )


This makes me wonder about:

"Infrastructure online to develop vaccine for #CoronaVirusCOVID19 @WorldUnivAndSch ?
in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics begin with sim in GooglePoly ? https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20 Test in China You_at_W U aS &
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Clinical_Trials_at_WUaS_(for_all_languages) per  https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20 ~ "


https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1233099624472293376?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1234159280590213120?s=20
(COVID2019 https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1234158837621354496?s=20 )


And per:

"Visualizing the central dogma in cells!
The labs of Julia Mahamid
@embl and @RappsilberLab present the in situ structure of the transcribing-translating expressome. Glad we could contribute.
@DTegunov @WimJHH @JorgStulke "

Preprint: https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.970111v1
https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20



https://twitter.com/CramerLab/status/1233697069753389057?s=20


This would relate directly to, which I've already shared with you:

"MIT: Coronavirus & the impact on global supply chains  https://insights.techreview.com/coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-global-supply-chains/  Curious re HOW & WHEN in #SupplyChain article & #Blockchain too re https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20 & 'You ' https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University for 7.5bil p #WikidataQitem #WikidataPIN # could help w #CoronaVirusCovid19? "

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1233064398593216512?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1233065327652552704?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1233069157156978688?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1233064022771027968?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1233064752223420417?s=20


Fascinating too to learn from Synthetic Biologist Gerd Moe-Behrens of:

"Broad-spectrum antiviral GS-5734 inhibits both epidemic and zoonotic coronaviruses"

https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1233917375361306628?s=20
( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Synthetic_Biology )


Thanks to John Palfrey for:

"How Prepared Is the U.S. for a Coronavirus Outbreak?"

https://twitter.com/jpalfrey/status/1233932284933410816?s=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/health/coronavirus-preparation-united-states.html


And could part of the molecular diagnostics involve everyone sequencing their own genome, beginning in the field in areas most affected by the #CoronaVirusCovid19 epidemic, eg Wuhan - in combination with an electron microscopes for diagnostics on our smart phones (thanks again to Harvard / MIT Professor of Genetics George Church) and streaming this data via the internet into avatar bot electronic medical records for all 7.5 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN # (re Wikidata's ~300 languages) with:

Congratulations Hesaam and team!
Small Sequencer Developer GenapSys Completes $90M Series C Financing
https://clinicalomics.com/news-and-features/small-sequencer-developer-genapsys-completes-90m-series-c-financing/



https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1199669550528258048?s=20


And for a little humor from the CDC, and from Rob Califf MD:

Hipsters, you have been notified. Here's the CDC facial hair & mask recommendations
https://cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf
Robert M Califf @califf001 Feb 27
Good to see the Zappa made the cut. @dpatil



https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1232980867267596288?s=20


https://twitter.com/dpatil/status/1232696247003291648?s=20


Thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions?

All the best,
Scott

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University (planning for all 7.5 billion people)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each a major online MIT OCW-centric University in all ~200 countries' official / main languages)
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages (planning for all 7,111 known living languages)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForCRISPR?src=hashtag_click


PS
The WHO site is proving increasingly helpful, communications-wise:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019


PPS
Following up further on the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation, here's a new mapping from the WHO (World Health Organization), which the named CEO of the WUaS Corp / Press (https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1233448475309826048?s=20) just shared on Twitter. And it's data looks to be very similar to the Johns Hopkins' modeling:

WHO's Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/685d0ace521648f8a5beeeee1b9125cd
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
(https://twitter.com/IuliuDumitrascu/status/1233448475309826048?s=20)

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Am wary in an ongoing way of "Orientalism" (a kind of racism) in the representations of all this data, and here too - Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE ... https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 (where its big red circles presently center on Hubei, mainland China, South Korea, Italy, and Iran) - but am also appreciative of all these new amazing opportunities for access to information! (which I also emailed about on 24 Feb 2020 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html -



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Are these germane: 

5 questions that the head of any of ~200 countries (in their main language) should probably address with regard to CoronaVirus Covid-19 ...

"Five questions Donald Trump must answer on coronavirus:
The president will address the US on Wednesday about the government’s response – which has so far been muddled"
Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch
Wed 26 Feb 2020 15.47 EST

And here's an amazing South Korean drive-through CoronaVirtusCOVID-19 testing station - https://twitter.com/koryodynasty/status/1233400273013338112?s=20 - which I found on Prof. Greely's Twitter - https://twitter.com/HankGreelyLSJU - and re-Tweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.

Have begun a new blog post with today's emails - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html - and in the 'genes' label too (and here's the previous blog post in these regards - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/teak-24-feb-2020-world-univ-sch-q-and.html). 

Thoughts, comments, questions, suggestions? 

All the best, 
Scott






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Monday, March 2, 2020

MIT: Coronavirus & the impact on global supply chains  https://insights.techreview.com/coronavirus-and-the-impact-on-global-supply-chains/…  Curious re HOW & WHEN in #SupplyChain article & #Blockchain too re https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1232116756560465921?s=20 … & 'You at WUaS' https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University… for 7.5 billion people #WikidataQitem #WikidataPIN # could help w #CoronaVirusCovid19?



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1233069157156978688?s=20





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In today's WUaS News and Q & A, I also talked about too how -
Infrastructure at WUaS for vaccine development conceptually re CoronaVirus COVID19 


WUaS Corp / WUaS Press News Q&A - 2 Mar 20

https://youtu.be/GIuxUELEHUU


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Also helpful from Wikidata re growing Coronavirus resources :

#coronavirus on #Wikidata ⬇️
🦠 SARS-CoV-2 (strain of virus) https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q82069695
🦠 #COVID19 (disease) https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q84263196
🦠 2019–20 outbreak https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q81068910
🔬 Papers published on the topic https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/topic/Q82069695
🔬 Papers on a timeline https://bit.ly/2Ioyf0V

https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/1234505024581128196?s=20




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Wikidata's relationship with Europeana digital museum and data 

Regarding
"Understand how new Europeana Entity Agents can be created"
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243907


this following image explains Wikidata's relationship with Europeana digital museum ..
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F31654637



https://phab.wmfusercontent.org/file/data/dw4u23h2ioswy4hxylws/PHID-FILE-csjbv7l7422oboqutnfx/image.png


And this may help as well -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P727#Is_this_ID_broken?








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Trevor, N-tFN, Nontheist Friends, Atheist Quakers, and All, 

Many thanks for sharing this Nontheist Friends' Network (in Britain) annual conference information at Friends’ House, Euston, London from Saturday 28th – Sunday 29th March 2020 - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/02/28/annual-conference-2020-further-update/ - and for keeping us posted.

Will anyone from the USA or other countries be attending the conference? (Apologies but I can't make it this year).

In a non-theistic yet quite friendly-vein (Friendly/Quaker as well), am exploring some of the recent developments concerning CoronaVirusCOVID19 here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-from-richard-dawkins-heres.html. (Methinks the divine / the spirit / or the light, or similar, won't do anything relating to creating a new vaccine for this for example, yet in a caring way, with NtFriendly concern, am curious too what will be successful approaches to dealing with this new CoronaVirus, - and come back to Harvard and MIT Professor of Genetics' George Church's recent Tweet (in blog post too) - 

" https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3   Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one" - 


Thoughts, questions, ideas?

NtFriendly regards, Scott 


PS
This article which I just saw yesterday evening gives me great pause regarding B.S. - 

"The Uncomfortable Question of Bernie Sanders’s Life Expectancy
Studies suggest he has a 50/50 chance of dying in office if elected."
by Paul Glastris - February 28, 2020
- https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/02/28/the-uncomfortable-question-of-bernie-sanders-life-expectancy/

What do you think of the medical analysis? 

Glad the Boston Globe has endorsed Elizabeth Warren for President - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/02/26/opinion/globe-endorses-elizabeth-warren/ (with an interesting perspective on contemporary issues in this election) - and the NYTs too. I continue to think she's the best candidate, but don't know if she could win in this competitive presidential election. So am glad too Biden won S.C. - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/01/nation/joe-biden-wins-south-carolina-primary-propelling-him-into-super-tuesday/

I found too this Richard Dawkin's NYT's post germane: 


Warm regards, Scott



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New post on Non-theist Friends Network

A 2020 NFN Conference Bibliography

by Trevor
Conference bibliography: Items which may be worth referring to before, during or after the conference. (Links in each case lead to a source for the books - but seems unreliable in Word). ‘Becoming fully human – Writings on Quakers and Christian thought’ by Michael Langford, published by Friends of the Light, 2019. https://friendsofthelight.org.uk/our-books ‘Clear Bright […]



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A 2020 NFN CONFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Conference bibliography:
Items which may be worth referring to before, during or after the conference. (Links in each case lead to a source for the books – but seems unreliable in Word).
‘Becoming fully human – Writings on Quakers and Christian thought’ by Michael Langford, published by Friends of the Light, 2019. https://friendsofthelight.org.uk/our-books
‘Twelve Quakers and …‘ – Quaker Quest series
‘Kindlers‘ – Series of booklets
‘Godless for God’s sake‘ edited by David Boulton (also available in Kindle).
Titles in the Quaker bookshop online section ‘Spirituality and religion’ under ‘Atheism‘. (including ‘Book of Atheist Spirituality’, ‘Religion for Atheists’ and ‘The Young Atheist’s Handbook’ – all out of stock on 5/2/2020).
‘Telling the Truth about God‘ (in ‘Quaker Quicks’) by Rhiannon Grant
‘The Guided Life‘ (in ‘Quaker Quicks’) by Craig Barnett
ALL of the above are available in the Quaker Bookshop in Friends’ House except when out of stock – we will try to see if copies can be made available over the Conference weekend.
Quaker Universalist Group booklets: https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/ (some to buy, some for free download)
39: The Language of Spirituality by Alan York: https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/pamphlet-39/
32: ‘Choosing Life: Embracing Spirituality in the 21st Century’ by Joycelin Dawes:
https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/pamphlet-32/
31: Human Beings Yearning for a Faith by Clive Sutton: https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/pamphlet-31/
30: ‘A Platform of Consciousness: Spirituality without Religion’, by Adrian Cairns: https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/pamphlet-30/
26: ‘The Faith of a Quaker Humanist’, by David Boulton:
https://qug.org.uk/pamphlets-2/pamphlet-26/

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Scott MacLeod helianth@gmail.com

9:15 PM (3 minutes ago)
to Non-theist, nontheist-friends@googlegroups.com
Thanks, Trevor, Tim Regan, and Nontheist Friends' Networks, for this conference bibliography - https://nontheist-quakers.org.uk/2020/03/01/a-2020-nfn-conference-bibliography/.

You reminded me of my Friends' Dalton Letter's bibliography - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonbiblio.htm - which I started to write just around the time I was studying at the University of Edinburgh in 2003-2004 (and active in the Quaker Meeting there in central Edinburgh). Both this bibliography and Friends' Dalton Letter itself - http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm - explicitly touch on Nontheist Friends, but which letter is much about an envisioning of love and caring, and many other aspects of love. 

And might you be open to adding this Nontheist Quakers' Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontheist_Quakers - to this bibliography?

Warm regards, Scott
(These are accessible from the 'love & links' link - http://scottmacleod.com/ ... http://scottmacleod.com/links.htm).


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