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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393350845, W. W. Norton)
Another book by David Quammen that is excerpted and adapted from his book Spillover. If you already read Spillover then this book might not bring much new. I read Spillover in 2015 in unsuspecting times and then this basically long chapter from that book on AIDS in the summer of 2020 in the middle of…
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393351552, W. W. Norton)
Elsewhere on this blog I wrote about Spillover by David Quammen. That book covers a number of so called zoonoses, diseases that can be transmitted from non-human animals to humans. Ebola is one example discussed in Spillover. When the book came out late 2012 it was in the middle of a series of Ebola outbreaks.…
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Nest Protect 2
A couple years back we renovated our house and as part of it we needed to install smoke detectors. We went for the standard smoke detectors, nothing special. Two weeks ago the battery in one of them died and I didn’t have a spare battery lying around. Also, we hadn’t placed CO detectors yet. They…
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The impact of Covid-19 on Running Shoes
Last week I had some time on Tuesday to go to Runner’s lab in Zaventem for a new pair of running shoes. The shoes I had were the previous model GT-4000 on which I had run a little over 550km by now. Strava had given me an alert about the mileage but the recommended fork…
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Spillover, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393066807, W.W. Norton & Company)
This book came out in October 2012 and I read it myself in June 2015. The subject of the book is zoonoses, diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. The book explores recent new diseases that appeared and outbreaks of these diseases. Among the diseases covered in the book are AIDS, ebola and sars.…
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1000km running history on Strava
Yesterday I finally managed to go for a run again this week (too many online meetings) and I finally passed the 1k of registered running kilometers on Strava. For a person like me this is a veritable milestone as I am not a real runner. I have to force myself to go for a run…
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The Breakfast Club
Last weekend we watched The Breakfast Club with the family. This movie from 1985 caused quite a stir when it came out. I remember watching it at the time while being in high school myself and loving it. I watched it multiple times but it cannot have been on regular tv. Probably it was on…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…
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The new MacBook Air M1
When the lockdown started last year in March it meant many changes. For one thing we ended up working from home and learning from home for the kids. The oldest one had to follow on line classes and do homework. This meant that my MacBook Pro changed ‘owner’. Where I was using it before for…
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Zwaartekracht en aardkorstgetijden
De meeste mensen weten wel dat de zwaartekracht van de maan eb en vloed veroorzaken. Maar ook de aarde zelf vervormt een klein beetje door dezefde zwaartekracht. Het hoogteverschil van het water tussen eb en vloed kan gaan van enkele meters tot meer dan tien meter. De aardkorst is stijver en dus is de vervorming…
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