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Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Oops, county gov't, not state. (I'm in Montgomery County, like whitroth #295.)...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
Maybe 40% wearing masks. I think that tribe has less to do with it just now than age. It probably depends on exactly where you are. Here in the liberal Maryland suburbs of DC, masks in the grocery store were...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
To what extent do you think these outcomes might be less dire if a large majority decide to start wearing facemasks in public? Lockdowns will remain the same duration but the inter-lockdown gaps will be a bit longer, because...
Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
To what extent do you think these outcomes might be less dire if a large majority decide to start wearing facemasks in public?...
Commented on What are you reading this summer?
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Commented on What are you reading this summer?
I'm a professor who didn't have to teach a course during the first part of the summer, so I got in a lot of sci-fi and fantasy reading for fun: The Memoirs of Lady Trent series by Marie Brennan (starts...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)