Epistemic status: Uncertain, under development. I began working on this essay in December 2021 and then set it aside for a while, made some revisions in December 2022, and some more revisions in March 2023 before publishing it. I feel like I'm still missing some important points and oversimplifying a...
I am requesting suggestions for an analog-ish rewritable tablet. Details below. I have a paper and pencil task list for work that I repeatedly erase and write over as I complete various tasks. After a month or two, it gets hard to read and I have to copy everything onto...
Does anybody have a good sense of how to estimate the covid risk accrued from staying one night at a hotel, as compared with a baseline risk of living in a house? My gut instinct is that this risk is fairly minimal, but I haven't seen any good data on...
Is it safe with regard to test efficacy to mail Binax rapid covid test kits (i.e. to a friend) in the winter when the weather is below freezing? The official instructions say to store at above 2 degrees C, but they are on sale on Amazon. Going to visit a...
I live in the US. I'm 37 years old and fairly healthy though not in perfect health with regard to covid risk (I'm a little overweight and have a blood clot in my personal history). I've never gotten covid as far as I know. I got my second dose of...