Tweets. Photos (Week 2023.04)
Day job links: NGLess tutorial and the follow-up, SemiBin tutorial. (@BigDataBiology YouTube channel).
Tweets of the Week
A study of 11 million individuals in Canada found that the unvaccinated were 72% more likely to get into a serious car accident.
Obviously, this isn't causal but it's an interesting correlation!
Risky people do risky things.
On the topic of French disregard of plumbing, Lawrence Durrell notes that Provence, France (as of 1959), was largely unspoilt by tourism.
He attributes this to the fact the even hotels generally lacked running water and toilets, and the chamber pot was still in use!
I'm confused about how to reconcile this type of overconfidence with the fact that most people take way too few risks in so many domains (e.g. moving to new places, asking people out, switching jobs, trying new hobbies, etc).
Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
the day I graduated from Oxford, my father beamed with pride as he uttered, “finally, my daughter is eligible for Shanghai hukou”
Photos of the Week
Videos of the Week
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