It struck me this morning that the park I walk through owes much of its existence to successive technologies. The streetcar technology (smokestack above) has been abandoned. The other technologies that undergird this public space are sewage collection and high voltage electrical transmission.Rivanna trail, winter weather.Geology and topography have graced the park with a river. So far, in our political wisdom, we have discouraged building in the river’s channel.The industrial and the natural features maintain an uneasy balance, remarkably it feels like a park.
Bike ride with E&H through the last best place. recreating in the time of virus an unexpected gift Helen snapped me at the end of the road. taking a picture of the Norris Bridge
A new study uploaded to the research site SSRN over the weekend finds that 90 percent of the coronavirus transmissions so far have occurred within a specific temperature (37 to 63 degrees) and absolute humidity range. For areas outside this zone, the virus is still spreading, but more slowly, according to the study by two scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.–WaPo
