Just reading information about H1N1, a.k.a. the Swine Flu… here are some thoughts:
The Flu Pandemic of 1918 had a mortality rate of about 10% – 20% of those infected and about 1% of the global population.
Mortality Rate of H1N1, a.k.a. Swine Flu
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009On Quantum Philosophy and The Long Tail
Monday, July 27th, 2009Not too long ago I logged onto Amazon.com and bought a used copy of “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson, oh the irony! I am just about done with it and ready to move on to my *free* Kindle version of his new book, “Free” but wanted to put some interesting thoughts I had out into “the wild” in the hopes of some feedback and perhaps some discussion. (more…)
Up the river and my Q.O.T.D.
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009As I have been growing up, I have spent a considerable amount of time on sailboats. Some big, some small. I have sailed pretty much from Maine to Venezuela and back with many stops in between.
On one family trip, during my teen years, we were somewhere in Connecticut, maybe near the CT River. I decided one afternoon I would take our dinghy, which had the ability to become a sailing dinghy, for a sail. It turned out this sail would be one of those “life lesson” things. (more…)