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Fri. 10/15 - Responding to Pandemic Uncertainty Like an Engineer

A proposal for approaching this next phase of the pandemic less like an epidemiologist and more like an engineer. Plus, new findings from the Mars Perseverance rover that has NASA breathing a sigh of relief. And product placement in novels, added without the author’s knowledge. It’s a real thing that I hope remains in the past.

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Links:

Reimagining our pandemic problems with the mindset of an engineer (MIT Technology Review)

A Prayer for Our Next COVID Era (The Atlantic)

Mars scientists…

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