Fri. 10/15 - Responding to Pandemic Uncertainty Like an Engineer

A proposal for approaching this next phase of the pandemic less like an epidemiologist and more like an engineer. Plus, new findings from the Mars Perseverance rover that has NASA breathing a sigh of relief. And product placement in novels, added without the author’s knowledge. It’s a real thing that I hope remains in the past.

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Links:

• Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer (MIT Technology Review)
• A Prayer for Our Next COVID Era (The Atlantic)
• Mars scientists now know where to look for life (BBC)
• Boulders On Mars Suggest a Warm and Humid Past (Time)
• The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel. (Literary Hub)
• Pratchett anecdote and responses with photos (Neil Gaiman, Twitter)
• Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (Stuffed Crocodile)
• Heinz Halloween Tomato Blood Costume  (Heinz)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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