From Worldometer (new COVID-19 deaths yesterday):
DAY USA WORLD Brazil India South Africa
June 9 1093 4732 1185 246 82
July 22 1205 7128 1293 1120 572
Aug 12 1504 6556 1242 835 130
Sept 9 1208 6222 1136 1168 82
Oct 21 1225 6849 571 703 85
Nov 25 2304 12025 620 518 118
Dec 30 3880 14748 1224 299 465
Jan 14 4142 15512 1151 189 712
Feb 3 4005 14265 1209 107 398
25 2414 10578 1582 119 144
Mar 2 1989 9490 1726 110 194
31 1115 12301 3950 458 58
April 6 906 11787 4211 631 37
May 4 853 13667 3025 3786 59
26 607 12348 2399 3842 101
June 1 287 10637 2346 3205 95
30 249 8505 2127 991 383
July 7 251 8440 1595 817 411
14 374 8721 1574 580 453
21 414 8638 1388 510 516
27 339 9460 1320 640 370
Summary:
- Yesterday Tokyo suffered its highest number of new cases ever with 2848. How serious is this?
- Tokyo: 203 cases/million
- World: 75
- India: 31
- USA: 185
- Hawaii: 116
- California: 216
- Louisiana: 1451
- Brazil: 194
- Thailand: 202
- China: 0.005
- What a terrible development, having among the highest number of new deaths/capita in the world. Blame the government for delaying vaccinations and the people for their high reluctance. Have you seen many of the outdoor Olympics events like cycling, where hordes line the streets, many of them capable of transmitting this disease?
- High enough to cancel the Games? Of course not.
- Japan, with 5389 also suffered its worse number of new cases, ever. Much of the same can be said for most of the countries in the Orient.
- The USA had the most new cases in the world, with 61,581. So we're back to leading the pack again. Why? Sure the Delta variance is one reason, but the continued resistance of too many about vaccinations is another.
- Indonesia was #2 with 45,203 new cases.
- However, while the U.S. "only" had 339 new deaths, Indonesia had 2,069, by far the most in the world.
- The difference? While the U.S. is just about at 50% regarding the fully-vaccinated, INDONESIA IS AT 7%!!! Countries like Israel and Canada are approaching 60%.
- As of two days ago there were 155 COVID-19 confirmed cases for everyone associated with the Tokyo Summer Olympics, but that included the 11,000+ athletes plus staff, workers and contractors. The infection rate is much less than 1%.
Maybe there is more to Pablo Picasso than we think. Researchers have found that everything from icebergs to rocks break apart into smaller cubes. There could well be a universal rule of fragmentation.
This notion builds of the work of mathematician Gabor Domokos of Budapest University. Back in 2006 he proved the existence of the gomboc, a gemstone-like shape that has only one stable balance point. Seems that pebbles washing downriver and sand grains blowing in the wind also erode toward gombocish shapes. From dolomite on the Harmashatarhegy in Budapest to supercomputer simulations of materials, they all formed this shape. Here is Gabor holding a gomboc:
So what use is this information? Hydrologists can predict fluid flow through rock cracks for oil extraction and geologists can now better predict the breaking off of cliff faces. My interest is as a geothermal engineer to better design in-situ hot dry rock reservoirs for energy extraction, said to have enough potential to supply all the energy humanity needs for thousands of years. Getting this to be cost effective is the problem.
This might be getting too philosophical, but Douglas Jerolmack, a University of Pennsylvania geophysicist, who is in this field, said their team took inspiration from Plato, who related each of the four classical elements--earth, air, fire and water--to a polyhedron. Domokos goes further on in saying: But in order to see the ideal, you have to use your mind.
The future of Man?
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