Thursday, April 28, 2022

How to create a white photographic background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu3s4xmRL-k&t=592s

Crucial Conversations key take aways

  • Crucial conversations have:
    • Opposing opinions
    • Strong emotions
    • High stakes
  • When under stress do I
    • Go to silence – withholding meaning
    • Go to "violence" – trying to force meaning
      • Controlling - forcing others to agree with me
      • Labeling - discrediting the speaker
      • Attacking - belittling, threatening
  • How to make it safe:
    • Mutual purpose, common goals
    • Mutual respect
    • Do they believe I care?
    • Apologize if needed
  • Common stories
    • Victim – it's not my fault
      • What can you do? actor
    • Villain – it's all your fault
      • Why would a reasonable, decent person do this?
    • Helpless – nothing I can do
      • What do you really want? What would I do if I really wanted those results?

Risk of long COVID likely reduced by vaccines

https://www.yahoo.com/news/vaccines-protect-against-long-covid-180838476.html

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

When droplets fall they briefly break the sound barrier

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-solve-mystery-how-soft-liquid-droplets-erode-hard-surfaces/

COVID results is myocarditis more often than vaccines

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/01/myocarditis-risk-higher-after-covid-infection-than-vaccination-cdc-finds.html

Exercise to help with mental health

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/well/move/exercise-mental-health.html

Checking COVID restrictions before travel

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/18/covid-travel-restrictions-2022/

I have high standards, and I think you can meet them.

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/leadership-feedback-critiscism-stanford-study.html

1/3 patients may have longer term COVID symptoms

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/almost-third-people-report-lingering-symptom-6-12-months-after-covid-19-study-2022-03-04/

COVID brain changes

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/health/covid-brain-changes.html

Measure waist instead of BMI

https://www.businessinsider.com/bmi-is-bogus-best-way-to-tell-if-youre-a-healthy-weight-2016-9

More research showing Wuhan Market as COVID origin

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/26/science/covid-virus-wuhan-origins.html