In the UK we still use a mixture of units. The older age groups tend to use imperial measures, but the younger folk are taught the metric system. Engineering has used metric units for many years. Initially the change to metric was strictly enforced, but now it is legal to use the old measures, eg; milk and beer can be sold by the pint and butter by the pound. The use of electronic scales permit flexibility. On the road distances are measured in miles, speed in miles per hour, but fuel is sold by the litre. And fuel economy is measured in miles per gallon. In aviation speed is measured in knots (nautical miles per hour). Distance is measured in nautical miles, but task lengths in kilometers. Altitude is measured in feet, but pressure in hPa (hectopascales). Personal measures are feet for height and stones and pounds for weight, for the old and metres and kilogrammes for the young.
Missed you Vincent and the Wednesday community! I’m so glad you are back. If I miss some Wednesdays it’s because family duty calls, but I will listen later.
I'm a member of the great unwashed (zero medical/virological background) but I found Vincent's Virology course had 2 essential lectures for health journalist: lesson 1 (general intro into viruses) and lesson 12 (general infection basics). I understood both and they were enlightening but I didn't understand the others.
Nobody mentioned the new M Pox. Might just be a scare story but there is a new strain of M Pox, supposedly more transmissible and so on. I think it was on the BBC news yesterday lunchtime.
To like the complexity of viruses is similar to liking the complexity of the digestive system of mosquitoes. I personally like the First Noble Truth of Buddhism.
Dear Vincent, did you tour the world in 2019 to prepare them for Covid arrival? All those great scientists in Sweden, did any of them hear about the Covid coming?
°C!!! Haha. Agreed! Being old, I'm conflicted. My schooling transferred to °C back in 1960 so I use it all the time but I still relate to °F for personal experience!
I know it's upsetting and infuriating, but you've done enough. Don't let the lab leaker idiots sidetrack your wonderful teaching of virology. We're here to hear what you have to say and not just hear debunking of idiotic ideas.
There was a ground animal. I forget what it was where helicopters would fly over and drop vaccination. I would assume within food to the animal I’m going to google and find out what that was but apparently from what I recall, it worked very well. Aphis usda site page title: “USDA Continues Field Assessment of Oral Rabies Vaccine for Raccoons and other Wildlife“ The above article discusses this technique and I found it very interesting. I don’t know how this would be implemented with birds though.
