SincDavidson Top health official compares Cook to COVID-19 theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic…
… Then what did Cook have to say about the aboriginal people he encountered? Perhaps the dangers he had recently..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…y1
Finally, on 21 August, 1770, after a long, sometimes terrifying, 4-month passage, up the East Coast of Australia, C..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Dk
A terrifying night for Capt. Cook and crew: the Endeavour aground on the Barrier Reef, holed, fast, and about to si..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rr
The First Voyage of Capt. Cook (to the South Pacifica to observe the transit of Venus): the only voyage to equal Ap..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gf
“… and Isaac Smith and Europe leapt ashore” J. C. Beagleghole’s great account of Capt. Cook’s first landing on th..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…x2
samirvarma @ATabarrok is on a roll! Another excellent and very important post. The Decline of the Innovation State is Killin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8t
I like this ‘digital’ version of Roosevelt’s “Works Progress Administration” to lift employment during the #COVID19..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gL
Was the subway the ‘Broad Street Pump’ of COVID19 in New York? (via @MargRev) Where else? Tokyo? nber.org/papers/w27021.…
Arnold Kling on “Lockdown socialism” & bubbe-meise arnoldkling.com/blog/steel-man…
ATabarrok Unbelievable. US is now telling Mexico “tear down this wall!” twitter.com/diazbriseno/st…
Seems pandemic viruses have been regularly “escaping” from govt virology labs. SARS leaked at least 6 times from CH..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Io
Shakespeare by numbers… Missing the stimulation of trade disputes while you hide from the Plague? Here’s an anody..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…iU
AusTaxpayers Over 90% of adults in Australia use Google every month. Are we supposed to believe a major disruption to their busi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yn
All my life, AU governments have been screwing around with media competition (restricting it, of course) and *alway..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…H9
mattwridley It is therefore vital that the Chinese government makes Dr Tian Jun-hua available for interview as soon as possible..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4u

ProfFeynman Schrödinger’s Plates:
The plates are both broken and not broken until you open the door. pic.twitter.com/vx0jagHZsh
RT @insteconomics: I have an op-ed at ABC Online arguing that the current disruptions to the global economy dramatise the hidden benefits o…
BjornLomborg We know from Spanish Flu a century ago that social distancing is effective, but “overeffective” policies (too stric..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nH
The data quoted by @SincDavidson is from epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/gl… twitter.com/pwgallagher/st…
“If this estimate is correct – the ‘war’ against COVID-19 was won in Australia nearly 3 weeks ago.@SincDavidsonocatallaxyfiles.com/2020/04/14/est…3m
@snlester Yes, that’s what the last para of the press release says.
@snlester Washing machines? This looks like the Congress acknowledges Exec Branch discretion to levy duties that di..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lc
@Adam_Creighton “Over-reacting to an unremarkable coronavirus” theaustralian.com.au/commentary/we-…
mattwridley “The forgotten, historical – and hysterical – context for the controversy around the modelling of Covid-19. Consitwitter.com/i/web/status/1…v59Ihg
Arnold Kling again: “PSST and the economic recovery” Argues that pre-lockdown patterns of specialisation & trade ar..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3j
MIE: “We pair you with a world-class barber via video chat to get your hair through these hard times”::youprobablyneedahaircut.com
Arnhold Kling on “The Higgsian moment” arnoldkling.com/blog/the-higgs…
“WHO was implicitly sending a reminder to those who had erroneously been associating the virus with Wuhan and with..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…hc
“Governments cannot freeze an economy, thaw it out a few months later and expect it to come back to life… the mosttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…51zx
ABS today released data on the causes of death in 2018. About 3000 from influenza/pneumonia. Median age 89 yrs. My..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Fr
MelMitchell1 This deep-learning computer vision demo is damn impressive!
vilbert.cloudcv.org
samirvarma Chip Bag Hack: How to Close a Chip Bag With No Clip | Hunker buff.ly/3aVZooi
SincDavidson A lot of Australians just got bitch slapped by the Pope. twitter.com/Pontifex/statu…
“The Pell conviction is a scandal that will rank alongside the outrageous jailing of Lindy Chamberlain for the murd..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…no
Australian business Impacts of COVID-19, Week Commencing 30 March 2020: very high proportion, including small busin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…TY
“[T]he evidence of the opportunity witnesses nonetheless required the jury, acting rationally, to have entertained..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Sp
@AusTaxpayers The true foundation of liberty has nothing to do with obedience but everything to do with consent. “T..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…gb
RT @insteconomics: I discuss the role of COVID-19 in driving US economic policy uncertainty to record highs and the associated equity marke…
dikenson Not to cause an inflation in the price of woolen products, but has the FDA or CDC offered any guidance about lamb’s..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…z8
One of the world’s biggest suppliers of surgical + exam gloves on govts. “wild west” supply chain disruptions incl…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ep
@SimonEvenett Yes it’s a bizarre regulation: an export control that does not control exporters except, apparently,..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Eh
Kenneth72712993 In perspective:
During winter 2016/17, 25,000 Italian deaths were attributed to the seasonal flu. As of 1 April, t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…m5
“Australia right now needs a bonfire of the regulatory distortions”:: spectator.com.au/2020/04/scomos…

Celebrating 30 years of Hubble telescope::physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.… pic.twitter.com/3s72VdrJNt