January 19 – 23
Cassandra explains why the flu shot is ineffective this year, what H and N stand for, how the virus outevolved the statisticians, and why to get the shot anyway. A magisterially thorough explanation, and one feels better for it already.
Cameron has always liked maps, all kind of maps, maps that outline human influence on terrain, maps of holiday lights even. But now she’s thinking about the dark places in between and surrounding the lights.
I got the flu shot, and then I got the flu. I try to understand Cassie’s explanations and arguments but can see only seraphim and devils. The flu is just flat-out medieval and the 21st century is very little help.
Helen’s lovely little turtles, fwip, fwip, fwipping their way down the beach to the brightest light around, the ocean. And just like your cousins on Facebook, the turtles come back again full circle.
Richard watches the documentary A Brief History of Time. He finds out that seeing is not so much believing — because general relativity is seriously unbelievable — as it is understanding. “Of course,” he says.
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sea turtles by Claudio Giovenzana www.longwalk.it, via Wikimedia