Tutti i numeri del coronavirus in Italia: contagiati, morti, guariti e numero di tamponi. Informazioni per regioni e province fornite dal ministero della Salute.
Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic without any significant excess death.
We have gathered subnational data from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus.
Techdirt has just written about the extraordinary legal action taken against a company producing Covid-19 tests. Sadly, it's not the only example of some individuals putting profits before people. Here's a story from Italy, which is...
We are seeing how the monopolistic repair and lobbying practices of medical device companies are making our response to the coronavirus pandemic harder.
Tutti i numeri del coronavirus in Italia: contagiati, morti, guariti e numero di tamponi. Informazioni per regioni e province fornite dal ministero della Salute.
Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic without any significant excess death.
We have gathered subnational data from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus.
This page has a number of charts on vaccination. In the box below you can select any country you are interested in – or several, if you want to compare countries.
«The results provide a dataset to question whether transmission with an
undetectable viral load is actually possible. They should help normalise HIV
and challenge stigma and discrimination.»
Techdirt has just written about the extraordinary legal action taken against a company producing Covid-19 tests. Sadly, it's not the only example of some individuals putting profits before people. Here's a story from Italy, which is...
We are seeing how the monopolistic repair and lobbying practices of medical device companies are making our response to the coronavirus pandemic harder.
Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic without any significant excess death.
We have gathered subnational data from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus.
Emotional support of others can take the form of surface-level consolation. But compassion means being willing to listen and feel, even when it's uncomfortable.
Ultimately, the driving force behind the “power of positive thinking” meme is the word “power.” But what about those whose bodies are not powerful? What about those who are vulnerable? What about those who are tired, isolated, and struggling? What about those who are ill? What about those who lack
I have often been dismissive or unhelpful when someone close to me was dealing with painful circumstances, having learned to “accentuate the positive.” In the more recent past, I have recognized these behavioral patterns as part of what some mental health professionals term, “toxic positivity.”
Toxic positivity is the overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state resulting in the denial & invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.
«Writing about the first winter the men spent on the ice, Cherry-Garrard
casually mentions an astonishing lecture on scurvy by one of the expedition’s
doctors…»
Gino Strada (born Luigi Strada; 21 April 1948) is an Italian war surgeon and founder of Emergency, a UN-recognized international non-governmental organization.
Questo opuscolo non porta sfiga, leggerlo non provoca effetti
collaterali. Si presenta così Come ti frego il virus, tascabile non solo di
nome ma anche di fatto: quando fu pubblicato i ragazzi se lo mettevano in
tasca, soprattutto dopo che ne fu “proibita” l’introduzione nelle scuole.
L’opuscolo - firmato nel 1991 dalla Commissione nazionale per la lotta
contro l'Aids, dall’allora ministro della Sanità e naturalmente da Silver -
provocò le ire dell’allora ministro dell’Istruzione.
Your friends and colleagues are talking about something called “Bayes’s
Theorem” or “Bayes’s Rule,” or something called Bayesian reasoning. They
sound really enthusiastic about it, too, so you google and find a web page
about Bayes’s Theorem and... It’s this equation. That’s all. Just one
equation. The page you found gives a definition of it, but it doesn’t say
what it is, or why it’s useful, or why your friends would be interested in
it. It looks like this random statistics thing. Why does a mathematical
concept generate this strange enthusiasm in its students? What is the
so-called Bayesian Revolution now sweeping through the sciences, which
claims to subsume even the experimental method itself as a special case?
What is the secret that the adherents of Bayes know? What is the light
that they have seen? Soon you will know. Soon you will be one of us.
While there are a few existing online explanations of Bayes’s Theorem, my
experience with trying to introduce people to Bayesian reasoning is that
the existing online explanations are too abstract. Bayesian reasoning is
very counterintuitive. People do not employ Bayesian reasoning
intuitively, find it very difficult to learn Bayesian reasoning when
tutored, and rapidly forget Bayesian methods once the tutoring is over.
This holds equally true for novice students and highly trained
professionals in a field. Bayesian reasoning is apparently one of those
things which, like quantum mechanics or the Wason Selection Test, is
inherently difficult for humans to grasp with our built-in mental
faculties. Or so they claim. Here you will find an attempt to offer an
intuitive explanation of Bayesian reasoning—an excruciatingly gentle
introduction that invokes all the human ways of grasping numbers, from
natural frequencies to spatial visualization. The intent is to convey, not
abstract rules for manipulating numbers, but what the numbers mean, and
why the rules are what they are (and cannot possibly be anything else).
When you are finished reading this, you will see Bayesian problems in your
dreams.
Research into the hypoalgesic effect of swearing has shown that the use of profanity can help reduce the sensation of pain. This phenomenon is particularly strong in people who do not use such words on a regular basis.[1]