Getting used to avoiding handshakes was one thing, but in France (and other parts of Europe), la bise is on the out. I heard this from a friend during the April 2019 timeframe when C-19 had just started to land — and in a small village in France they were ostracized for not engaging in the tradition of la bise.
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V-RESAS System in Japan
There’s a beautiful and informative system running in Japan called “V-RESAS” where RESAS stands for:
- Regional
- Economy
- Society
- Analyzing
- System
I guess the “V” must mean “Visual” because it’s gorgeous.
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Cholera in London (1854)
John Snow’s map is one of the world’s first examples of leveraging visualization to track down the center of an epidemic. He placed bars to represent individual deaths at each location in a London neighborhood to figure out where the outbreak actually came from. Answer? A water pump.
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Bats As Virus Supercarriers
Ever since I heard the 40 ℃/104 ℉ stat on bats’ body temperatures in flight and how they represent 1/5th of all mammals on earth, it’s put things in perspective for me. That means that they can carry a virus perfect for humans while flying — and not kill it. Not great, huh?
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