COVID-19 – Day 123: Why Country is Flattening the Curve?
(E) The New York Times has published today which countries have been successful to flatten the curve? So far Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and China. Italy, Spain, Iran, France, […]
COVID-19 – Day 122: Sanofi Offers Anti-Malaria Treatment for COVID-19 after “Promising” Trials
(E) Sanofi said it could potentially treat COVID-19 patients with its anti-malarial drug Plaquenil after what it described as “promising” early test results. Sanofi said it was ready to work […]
COVID-19 – Day 122: La Musique de Renaud Capuçon pour Adoucir nos Moeurs
(E) Famous French cellist Gautier Capuçon was supposed to perform with MTT and the San Francisco Symphony orchestra several concerts from Tuesday to Saturday last week. But all those concerts […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: From Paris to San Francisco PLEASE STAY HOME!
(E) Seven counties of the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered nearly 7 million residents to shelter in place for the next three weeks as health officials scramble to keep […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: The Implications of Hitting the Hard 0% Interest Rate Floor
(E) If you want to understand how the economy works, listen to hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. Following Sunday’s announcement of the Federal Reserve, Mr. Dalio published today an article […]
COVID-19 – Day 120: First Trial of COVID-19 Vaccine with Humans
(E) It goes without saying that some of the best biotech firms and researchers are working no stop to find a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus. Today, Moderna , a […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Testing, Testing, and Testing
(E) Business Insider has one chart that summarized how the US is behind many other countries in testing its population against the coronavirus: “One chart shows how many coronavirus tests […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Why the Coronavirus Spread Exponentially, and how to “Flatten the Curve”?
(E) The Washington Post has a fantastic article that simulates how the coronavirus spreads exponentially in a population of 200 inhabitants, and why it is so important to slow its propagation: […]
COVID-19 – Day 119: Understand the Novel Coronavirus
(E) The New Yorker has published a thorough interview – Understand the Novel Coronavirus – with Justin Lessler, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of […]
NeurIPS 2019 @ Vancouver
(T) The 2019 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) was held this year from December 8th through December 14th, 2019 at the Vancouver Convention Center. Over 13,000 attendees! And […]
The Timing of the Next Recession and The Negative-Yielding Bond Bubble
(B) I watched Blackstone Q4 quarterly webcast on the financial markets. That webcast was prepared by Blackstone’s Byron Wien and Joe Zidle (I listened regularly to Byron Wien to understand […]
Manon Lescaut with Lianna Haroutounian and Conducted by Nicola Luisotti at the SF Opera
(E) I could not miss this Fall “Manon Lescaut” at the San Francisco Opera. So, I went to see it on November 16th. I was looking forward to listening to […]
The San Francisco Bay Area without Power Because of Climate Change!
(E) For the last two years, Northern California had the most destroying fires of its history. In October 2017, the North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires were a […]
Saving the Dark
(E) I had the pleasure to visit Point Reyes and its beautiful ecosystem of birds this week-end. On Saturday night, a group of astronomers from Santa Cruz were showing to […]
Change is Coming, Whether You Like it or Not!
(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please watch carefully Greta’s […]
You Must not Gamble Your Children’s Future on the Flip of a Coin
(E) We need a billion of climate change activists like Greta Thunberg. We need their courage, their wisdom, and their determination. Our future depends on them. Please read carefully Greta’s […]
Leaving no Plastic to Landfills and to the Ocean
(E) You use plastic first thing in the morning when you grab your toothbrush, you probably have your lunch in a plastic container, and you drink water from your plastic […]
