Sunday, March 22, 2020

MWGIC-EP-110: This Virus Isn't In Your PC...Only - Hanging On To Life And Friends In The Era Of COVID-19







Show Notes:

Financial Mess:

Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/minnesota-and-vermont-just-classified-grocery-clerks-as-emergency-workers/


How the coronavirus pandemic exposed deficiencies in our economy - Video

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-the-coronavirus-pandemic-exposed-deficiencies-in-our-economy/


The economic fallout of coronavirus - Video

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-economic-fallout-of-coronavirus/


White House expresses support for immediate cash payments to Americans as part of coronavirus stimulus package

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/17/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-package/


Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/federal-reserve-cuts-rates-to-zero-and-launches-massive-700-billion-quantitative-easing-program.html


All Disney Theme Parks, U.S. Universal Studios Closing Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/disney-theme-park-closed-coronavirus-1203531795/


What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/issues-5000-years-of-empire/2018/09/14/what-history-books-left-out-about-depression-era-co-ops/


Newsom signs executive order halting foreclosures, utility shutoffs

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/487945-newsom-signs-executive-order-halting-foreclosures-utility-shutoffs


Tax Day is now July 15. Here’s what that means.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/20/21188370/tax-day-moved-mnuchin-twitter-coronavirus


Musk the Virus Skeptic Makes Reluctant Ventilator Offer After GM
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/kudlow-says-gm-ceo-offered-to-make-ventilators-for-outbreak


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Lifestyle Changes That May Stick:

Inside California's Great Lockdown, Glimpse America's Stay-At-Home Future

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/22/california-coronavirus-lockdown/?arc404=true


The drive-in, relic of yesterday, finds itself suited to now

https://apnews.com/bd766ac42089fffaf45e2920e1cd33ed


The Tech Headaches of Working From Home and How to Remedy Them
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/technology/personaltech/working-from-home-problems-solutions.html


As More People Need To Work From Home, Companies Need To Ask Themselves If Their IT Managers Are Up To The Task

https://www.forbes.com/sites/enriquedans/2020/03/17/as-more-people-need-to-work-from-home-companies-need-to-ask-themselves-if-their-it-managers-are-up-to-thetask/


Eating alone, together: Virtual dinner parties are helping people fight isolation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/voraciously/wp/2020/03/21/eating-alone-together-virtual-dinner-parties-are-helping-people-fight-isolation/

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Health Advice:

THIS, NOT HAND SANITIZER, WILL SAVE US FROM THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS

https://futurism.com/neoscope/soap-water-best-hand-sanitizer-coronavirus


No Song? 20-Second Count Made Easy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQOmzZIpRg





CDC On Coronavirus: Frequently Asked Questions

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html

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Stess Relief:

Musicians At Home; Larkin-Poe To Sheryl Crow & Beyond

https://www.facebook.com/larkinpoe/

https://www.facebook.com/sherylcrow/


'A Kind of Triumph of Spirit': Locked Down Italians Singing From Balconies Inspire Hope Across World

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/16/kind-triumph-spirit-locked-down-italians-singing-balconies-inspire-hope-across-world


Jokes in the time of coronavirus - Chicago Reader


https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/covid-19-jokes/Content?oid=78640318

Sunday, March 8, 2020

MWGIC-EP-000109: Dinosaur DNA and Warp Drives




Watch Video On YouTube: https://youtu.be/_1RppaQcvHQ 

Show Notes:


Still Cybertruckin':



Elon Musk's million-mile battery dreams are about to come true
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/a-new-electric-vehicle-battery-can-last-1-million-miles


Tesla Cybertruck Is Leading The All-Electric Pickup Truck Revolution

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-cybertruck-rivian-r1t-bollinger-b2-nikola-badger-ev-pickup-truck


Electric 40-Ton Truck Gets Dynamically Wirelessly Charged

https://insideevs.com/news/401858/electric-truck-dynamic-wireless-charging/


The Tesla Cybertruck is gaining respect among real pickup truck owners

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-cybertruck-pickup-owners-respect/


Are Construction Pros Falling In Love With The Tesla Cybertruck?

https://insideevs.com/news/402007/construction-pros-love-tesla-cybertruck/


Cybertruck passes early test with construction pros | Seeking Alpha

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3547239-cybertruck-passes-early-test-construction-pros


MotorTrend Channel: Tesla Cybertruck Details Revealed—Range, Batteries and Towing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLrjsX2L0Gw


Is Tesla Cybertruck Outdone By Mahindra Gio With Cheap EV Conversion?

https://insideevs.com/news/401432/tesla-cybertruck-mahindra-gio-ev-conversion/


Tesla’s secret battery project could finally push EVs to overtake gas cars

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/teslas-secret-battery-project-could-finally-push-evs-to-overtake-gas-cars


Audi unveils new e-tron S, claims will be 'first electric cars worldwide with three motors in mass production' - Electrek

https://electrek.co/2020/02/28/audi-e-tron-s-models-first-electric-cars-three-motors-mass-production/


EV Battery Breakthrough: Twice The Range, Five Minutes To Charge | OilPrice.com

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/EV-Battery-Breakthrough-Twice-The-Range-Five-Minutes-To-Charge.html


Kevin Rooke: The Genius of Tesla Superchargers | CleanTechnica

https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/28/kevin-rooke-the-genius-of-tesla-superchargers/


Tesla Megapack Battery Installation Approved for Moss Landing

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-megapack-battery-installation-moss-landing-tesla-energy


Prufrock Next-Generation Tunnel-Boring Machine Is Working — Somewhere | CleanTechnica
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/01/prufrock-next-generation-tunnel-boring-machine-is-working-somewhere/


Which is cuter, the Microlino electric bubble car or its electric scooter companion? - Electrek

https://electrek.co/2020/02/28/microlineo-bubble-car-electric-scooter-microletta/


This electric bike has a novel fix for range anxiety | Top Gear
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/electric-bike-has-novel-fix-range-anxiety


Recharge!
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Space, The Final Frontier:


SETI@home's crowdsourced search for aliens ending after 21 years - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/05/us/seti-home-hibernation-alien-trnd-scn/index.html


Scientists: NASA Rover Has Found Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars

https://futurism.com/scientists-nasa-found-evidence-ancient-life-mars


Physicists Are Studying Mysterious ‘Bubbles of Nothing’ That Eat Spacetime - VICE

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/939g5p/physicists-are-studying-mysterious-bubbles-of-nothing-that-eat-spacetime


SpaceX aims to launch 70 missions a year from Florida's Space Coast by 2023 | Space

https://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-launch-rate-boost-mobile-service-tower.html


Relativity Space will 3D-print rockets at new autonomous factory in Long Beach, California | Space

https://www.space.com/relativity-space-autonomous-rocket-factory.html


SpaceX’s Starship SN1 prototype blows up during pressure test in Texas – GeekWire

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/spacexs-starship-sn1-prototype-blows-pressure-test-texas-pad/


Critical rocket escape system motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft aces final test | Space
https://www.space.com/nasa-orion-launch-escape-attitude-control-motor-final-test-video.html


Elon Musk says 'the fighter jet era has passed'

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/elon-musk-says-the-fighter-jet-era-has-passed.html


Biggest Explosion in the History of the Universe Detected by Astronomers – “Really, Really Massive”

https://scitechdaily.com/biggest-explosion-in-the-history-of-the-universe-detected-by-astronomers-really-really-massive/


Scientists Are Starting to Take Warp Drives Seriously, Especially This One Concept
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-starting-to-take-warp-drives-seriously-especially-this-one-concept


There's a crack in one of the dilitium crystals, Captain!
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Scientist's Lab:


Cartilage cells, chromosomes and DNA preserved in 75 million-year-old baby duck-billed dinosaur

https://phys.org/news/2020-02-cartilage-cells-chromosomes-dna-million-year-old.html


Brain-computer interfaces could tell us what unconscious patients are thinking

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/unconscious-patients-can-now-sort-of-speak-to-us


114 year-old cells converted to pluripotent stem cells - Longevity.Technology

https://www.longevity.technology/114-year-old-cells-converted-to-pluripotent-stem-cells/


Not the torches & pitchforks again!!
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PC's, Geeks, And Coding:


How to Install Wireshark on Ubuntu Linux [Latest Version]

https://itsfoss.com/install-wireshark-ubuntu/


How to Build a Web Scraper With Python [Step-by-Step Guide] - By Angelica Dietzel

https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-a-web-scraper-with-python-step-by-step-guide-jxkp3yum


Python Programming Language: Best Resources for Developers and Managers - TechRepublic

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/python-programming-language-best-resources-for-developers-and-managers/


How to install Rust on Linux - TechRepublic:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-install-rust-on-linux/


Cortana support going away in Windows 10 versions at 'end-of-support' dates | Windows Central:

https://www.windowscentral.com/cortana-support-going-away-windows-10-versions-end-support-dates


81% of IT pros expect most data center and networking tasks will be automated by 2025 - TechRepublic

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/81-of-it-pros-expect-most-data-center-and-networking-tasks-will-be-automated-by-2025/


Retired Certifications - Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/retired-certifications.aspx


Microsoft is retiring its MCSA, MCSD and MCSE certifications in June 2020
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-retiring-its-mcsa-mcsd-and-mcse-certifications-in-june-2020/


Pull the plug on that thing, Mr. Spock!
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Proper Greeting For The Corona Virus:





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