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Fancy coughing at your phone? Nicer than a swab up your nose

November 3, 2020 | Marcus | health, science, Uncategorised

The pandemic has certainly been a trigger for some really interesting science to be done. Here’s something that’s hit the headlines today – Artificial Intelligence can be used to detect COVID-19 from the sound of someone’s cough. If you want to read it, the full report is here, but unless you’re lucky enough to subscribe […]

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Post-communist Bulgaria, solar eclipses, and NZ Level 2 restrictions

September 1, 2020 | Marcus | health, science, Uncategorised

In August 1999, I had the opportunity to travel from the U.K. to Varna, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast, to view the European Total Solar Eclipse. Just why we ended up in Varna, as opposed to a plethora of other possibilities in Europe, is a bit of a long story, but a substantial part […]

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New Zealand’s big, terrible, unwanted surge.

August 18, 2020 | Marcus | science

The problem is [this] big surge in New Zealand … it’s terrible. We don’t want that.’ Yes, Mr Trump, it’s unwelcome. And we certainly don’t want it.  But the US, on the other hand, might be a lot happier to replace its last 7 days of  COVID-19 statistics with New Zealand’s. Here’s the graphs, with […]

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This is exponential growth

March 23, 2020 | Marcus | health, science, Uncategorised

Since I last posted on Wednesday, we have seen about zero sign of any flattening in the exponential growth of COVID-19 cases worldwide. I’m not a epidemiologist, or a health professional, or a infectious disease expert. But I do know what an exponential looks like. With cases doubling about every four days world wide, and […]

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Eight new COVID-19 cases today. It’s no surprise when you look at some numbers

March 18, 2020 | Marcus | health, science, Uncategorised

So, as I sit at home with a very, very slight headache (i.e. not at work when I would otherwise be so), the now familiar figure of Ashley Bloomfield reports eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19  including two in Waikato. A surprise, given that we had just twelve yesterday? No. A worry? Maybe, but no […]

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Delays in feedback: Learning to drive, brain waves and COVID-19

March 11, 2020 | Marcus | health, science

With the numbers of new COVID-19 cases in China diminishing by the day, China now faces a problem. How to get the country back to work, or partly back to work, or more back to work, without taking too many risks with the virus taking off again. The risk can’t be eliminated, except by shutting […]

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The numbers are the numbers, except when they’re not.

February 14, 2020 | Marcus | science, Uncategorised

I’m not quite sure of what to make of the new figures for COVID-19 (as we must now call the novel coronavirus – though I’m not sure the capitalisation is correct) from Hubei province: Image from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51495484  The spike yesterday is a consequence of a using a different way of defining a case – one based […]

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