tromba
Wed Feb 24 20:37:23 EST 2021
Probably not noticeable, but the Doppler shift should affect the tuning of radio stations as you move toward and away from the transmitter.
I've heard myself echo with a Doppler shift. If I'm walking toward the reflecting surface, my echo will be sharp.
Thursday 00:17
The tromba marina is nothing like the trombone. Comment to luthier:"When you play it, it sounds like a trumpet. When I play it, it sounds like rearranging furniture."
Thursday 07:32
heard on NPR: vaccinefinder.org
Friday 16:00
What a sucky time to be a kid....The NYT The Daily takes a look at high school in Odessa, Texas.
A struggling school system. An oil bust. A marching band determined to keep playing through a pandemic.
This is the story of one Texas high school in crisis - and trying to reopen its doors.
Part 1, so there's more Monday?
Odessa is a town sitting on the most productive oil field in the world. And oil is a boom-and-bust industry. And right now, a lot of things are bust.
The state kept the schools open, but students could opt to stay home. Teaching in-room and remote simultaneously is pretty hard for most of the teachers.
With parents out of work, more of the students have needed to get jobs. Some are doing school remote at their jobs. They're not learning much.
And for remote students, teachers aren't feeling that connection with their kids. And the disconnected (in either sense - to that special teacher or activity, or on the network) kids are falling farther behind.
[Odessa, Part 2: Friday Night Lights aired 2 weeks later, Friday, March 12. Odessa is known for high-school football - but at a rival high school. We followed a student whose remaining connection to school was the marching band.]
[2021/Mar/28: Just spotted this: Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic - and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process.]
Well, it's another school story....Teacher masturbating in Zoom classroom thought he ‘was logged out when class was over’
Saturday 11:49
Heard on the radio ("Wait, Wait"): People who wear glasses are 3 times less likely to catch Covid.People who wear glasses may be up to 3 times less likely to catch COVID, new study suggests
The preliminary study [conducted in India] suggests that glass-wearers may have the extra protection because they tend to touch their eyes less frequently than most people.
What if this were a region where the people who could afford (eye exams and) glasses tended to be better educated and practiced better general corona-hygiene?
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1208709.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
Probably not noticeable, but the Doppler shift should affect the tuning of radio stations as you move toward and away from the transmitter.
I've heard myself echo with a Doppler shift. If I'm walking toward the reflecting surface, my echo will be sharp.
Thursday 00:17
The tromba marina is nothing like the trombone. Comment to luthier:"When you play it, it sounds like a trumpet. When I play it, it sounds like rearranging furniture."
Thursday 07:32
heard on NPR: vaccinefinder.org
Friday 16:00
What a sucky time to be a kid....The NYT The Daily takes a look at high school in Odessa, Texas.
A struggling school system. An oil bust. A marching band determined to keep playing through a pandemic.
This is the story of one Texas high school in crisis - and trying to reopen its doors.
Part 1, so there's more Monday?
Odessa is a town sitting on the most productive oil field in the world. And oil is a boom-and-bust industry. And right now, a lot of things are bust.
The state kept the schools open, but students could opt to stay home. Teaching in-room and remote simultaneously is pretty hard for most of the teachers.
With parents out of work, more of the students have needed to get jobs. Some are doing school remote at their jobs. They're not learning much.
And for remote students, teachers aren't feeling that connection with their kids. And the disconnected (in either sense - to that special teacher or activity, or on the network) kids are falling farther behind.
[Odessa, Part 2: Friday Night Lights aired 2 weeks later, Friday, March 12. Odessa is known for high-school football - but at a rival high school. We followed a student whose remaining connection to school was the marching band.]
[2021/Mar/28: Just spotted this: Odessa is a four-part audio documentary series about one West Texas high school reopening during the pandemic - and the teachers, students and nurses affected in the process.]
Well, it's another school story....Teacher masturbating in Zoom classroom thought he ‘was logged out when class was over’
Saturday 11:49
Heard on the radio ("Wait, Wait"): People who wear glasses are 3 times less likely to catch Covid.People who wear glasses may be up to 3 times less likely to catch COVID, new study suggests
The preliminary study [conducted in India] suggests that glass-wearers may have the extra protection because they tend to touch their eyes less frequently than most people.
What if this were a region where the people who could afford (eye exams and) glasses tended to be better educated and practiced better general corona-hygiene?
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1208709.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]