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Vaccinations BA.2, also known as “stealth omicron,” is considered to be a sub-variant of omicron. In Chicago, the sub-variant is now making up at least two-thirds of the city’s COVID cases. Hospitalizations and deaths have declined over the last week. That is good news but we still need to be cautious. The WHO dashboard shows […]
Power to the People
Power to the People During the summer of 2001, I wrote Net Attitude: What It Is, How to Get It, and Why Your Company Can’t Survive Without It.[i] There was still a lot of skepticism about the Internet, similar to the skepticism now circulating about cryptocurrencies. However, people around the world saw how the Internet […]
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Vaccinations Former FDA head, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, believes the U.S. this spring will avoid a “national wave” of infection related to the more contagious omicron BA.2 subvariant. He told CNBC, “I think we’re further into this than we perceive. Gottlieb added he thinks cases are being “dramatically” underreported in some parts of the country, like […]
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Vaccinations Subvariants BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3 are being monitored carefully. These more contagious versions of omicron are beginning to spread in U.S. It is still really important to get vaccinated and boosted. The WHO dashboard shows what is going on country by country. Globally, as of March 24, 2022, there have been 486.8 million confirmed cases of […]
Can Tractors Drive Themselves?
Deere’s autonomous tractor at work. Photo: Deere & Co. Can Tractors Drive Themselves? Written: April 2019 American consumers have a strong demand for unblemished fruits and vegetables. Satisfying the demand requires hundreds of thousands of workers who have the skills to plant the fields, tend the crops, harvest the produce, and pack it and prepare […]
