Ken Caldeira
A scientist researching issues related to climate, carbon, and energy. Carnegie Institution for Science (Global Ecology), Stanford, CA, USA [Personal account]
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Coronavirus: With diverging county rules, Bay Area enters shelter-in-place chaos
While some counties moved Friday toward opening for business by mid-summer, others are staying conservative, and locked down.
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Ken Caldeira
@kimmaicutler Allowing reopening, Scott Morrow reportedly says, “These modifications seek to increase the immunity of the population slowly ... ."
In the absence of a vaccine, that means he wants to slowly infect us.
That is not a policy I am happy about.
@SMCHealth
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A sacred site showing 46,000 years of continual occupation and it's completely legal to blow it up | First Dog on the Moon
Destroyed by people who probably don’t know who their ancestors were 300 years ago
2010 California Code :: Government Code :: Article 1. Duties
Ken Caldeira
@Tessa_M_Hill @JayLund113 While the other tasks of the sheriff say "shall", this one says "may":
"The sheriff may execute all orders of the local health officer
issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious or communicable disease."
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Touchscreen Voting Machines and the Vanishing Black Votes - WhoWhatWhy
After thousands of votes mysteriously vanished from touchscreen voting machines in Shelby County, TN, a battle rages over how to replace the machines.
California is reopening too quickly, posing 'very serious risk,' health officer warns
A key architect of the nation's first coronavirus stay-at-home order says California's fast pace of lifting restrictions "poses a very serious risk."
Tracking Every Coronavirus Case in the U.S.: Full Map
Maps show the extent of the coronavirus outbreak and the number of cases and deaths by state.
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Ken Caldeira
At is disconcerting to see California on the way up at the same time people seem to be becoming less careful.
The people I know who are most familiar with the science are taking the least risk: staying at home, not going out, ordering food delivered.
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Usable electricity usage data for the United States
The Energy Information Agency (EIA) does a great job collecting hourly data on electricity usage from power system operators in the U.S., but they are not paid to clean up this data. We cleaned the EIA data at the level of the power system balancing...
Developing reliable hourly electricity demand data through screening and imputation
Measurement(s) electricity demand validity Technology Type(s) computational modeling technique • Statistical Imputation • data screening Factor Type(s) electricity demand Sample Characteristic - Location contiguous United States of...
Ken Caldeira
"Developing reliable hourly electricity demand data through screening and imputation"
@thruggles, @farnham_h2o and @DanTong12 have cleaned up EIA hourly electricity demand data for balancing authorities in the contiguous United States.
open source+data
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'The price you pay': Sweden's 'herd immunity' experiment backfires
Unlike its Nordic neighbors, Sweden decided early in the pandemic to forgo lockdown in the hope of achieving "herd immunity." While social distancing was promoted bars, restaurants, salons, gyms and schools stayed open. How has that worked out?
The Coronavirus Is Deadliest Where Democrats Live
Beyond perception and ideology, there are starkly different realities for red and blue America right now.
Opening Up America Again | The White House
President Trump has unveiled Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, a three-phased approach based on the advice of public health experts.
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Ken Caldeira
Explain like I am five:
If new COVID-19 cases are declining for 14 days, and people start to go out without widespread testing and contact tracing, how are we in a better of a position now than we were two or three months ago?
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Scientists baffled by decision to stop a pioneering coronavirus testing project
Researchers looking to make tests widely available worry as regulators freeze the team that first identified US community spread.
temper with
Definition of temper with in the Idioms Dictionary by The Free Dictionary
Ken Caldeira
In English, "temper with" can mean either to harden or to soften depending on context.
temper something with something
1. Fig. to harden something, such as metal, with something.
2. Fig. to soften the impact of something, such as news, with something.
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Roughly half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found
It's not yet clear who's behind the surge in bot activity, or whether they're originating from the US or abroad.
Trump administration might consolidate pandemic response at State Department
The proposal could establish an alternative mechanism to some of the work done by the World Health Organization, which Trump has criticized.
Coronavirus in California: Map and Case Count
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
Ken Caldeira
@Tessa_M_Hill @DustinMulvaney The rate of new case reports has been increasing in California.
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Ken Caldeira
Happenings in southern California particularly are cause for concern.
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Some people in California are starting to act as if the risk of COVID-19 infection is abating.
The death rate in California is not abating.
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How Universal College Admission Tests Help Low-Income Students
Requiring the SAT or ACT, and making it free, reduces barriers for disadvantaged students who otherwise would not take the test.
📈 Trend Watch: Trump: 'There’s Many Per Capitas' - 5/21/2020 | Merriam-Webster
Dictionary lookups of 'per capita' are trending on Merriam-Webster.com.
University of California Will Stop Using SAT, ACT
voted on Thursday to stop using the SAT and ACT college admissions exams, dealing a significant blow to the multibillion-dollar college admission testing industry.
Ken Caldeira
While use of these standardized tests does have discriminatory consequences, they also help identify smart people who didn't focus on their academics in high school (like me).
Is there a practical non-discriminatory way to identify those people?
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