Scientific illiteracy and innumeracy are literally killing people

The omicron wave of SARS-COV2 continues, growing at a fantastic rate [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10340061/US-hits-second-daily-highest-average-diagnoses-rate-pandemic-began.html] .  The growth rate of this variant [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_

Length scales and perspective in the universe

This is something I've thought about quite a bit recently, as I've been using high resolution images of galaxies as desktop background images.  The idea in short is, when

deleting IT departments?

Thus wrote a MIT Sloan school professor in a Wall Street Journal opinion bit [https://optionsmasterycenter.com/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-it-department/], about the concept of removing a department he felt to be unaligned with the business

On this day 10 years ago my wife called me at SC11

... and told me the results of a biopsy, that began this journey [https://blog.scalability.org/2011/11/ot-it-really-focuses-your-attention-on-the-important-things/] .  I was ready to pack up our booth and come home, but she said

Beowulf Bash at #SC21 !

Ill be there.  Virtually. For those who don't know about the bash, have a gander at the website [https://beowulfbash.com/].  Kudos to Doug, Lara, and the rest of the team