AskScience Meta Thread: COVID-19 and reaching people in a time of uncertainty |
- AskScience Meta Thread: COVID-19 and reaching people in a time of uncertainty
- AskScience AMA Series: I'm Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone, Demon in the Freezer, and Crisis in the Red Zone, and I know quite a lot about viruses. AMA!
- Why do viruses mostly affect only one species?
- Why can't we just put some dead COVID-19 viruses in a syringe and call it a vaccine?
- How do grid-scale energy storage facilities determine what is 'excess energy'?
- Is there any evidence that individually targeted advertising is any more effective than traditional ads?
- Are there any viruses that don’t make us sick?
- Can microscopic organisms retain memory?
- Why do certain events cause someone to develop mental illness?
- How do asymptomatic people (who don’t cough) transmit COVID-19?
- How does a person develop asthma?
- Where is the water at during a drought? Isn't the sum total of water on Earth constant through time?
- Do sexual thoughts increase testosterone?
- How does the mRNA-1273 vaccine that Moderna is testing work (or is expected to)?
- Is Hempcrete made from MgO or lime vulnerable to degradation by acid rain or carbon dioxide?
- Rehabilitated forests that see an increase in wildlife. Where do they come from?
- What physical attributes makes a virus airborne?
- What is neural phase-locking and how does it relate to music?
- Have there been any significant mutations to SARS-CoV-2 since it was identified? Is it too soon to tell? Are there even enough samples to make that determination?
- Is there any data to suggest that COVID-19 pandemic might indirectly save lives due to a decrease or traffic and traffic accidents, less pollution, and preventing the spread of other diseases?
- Is there any reason to suspect or way to find out if COVID-19 could cause adverse side effects long term after recovery?
- Were there any new islands etc., which were discovered when Satellits started to map the world?
- If an Alpha or Beta Particle ionises an atom is the direction the resulting electron travels random, or defined by the direction the ionising particle was traveling?
| AskScience Meta Thread: COVID-19 and reaching people in a time of uncertainty Posted: 16 Mar 2020 02:52 PM PDT Hello everyone! We thought it was time for a meta post to connect with our community. We have two topics we'd like to cover today. Please grab a mug of tea and pull up a comfy chair so we can have a chat. COVID-19 First, we wanted to talk about COVID-19. The mod team and all of our expert panelists have been working overtime to address as many of your questions as we possibly can. People are understandably scared, and we are grateful that you view us as a trusted source of information right now. We are doing everything we can to offer information that is timely and accurate. With that said, there are some limits to what we can do. There are a lot of unknowns surrounding this virus and the disease it causes. Our policy has always been to rely on peer-reviewed science wherever possible, and an emerging infectious disease obviously presents some major challenges. Many of the questions we receive have been excellent, but the answers to them simply aren't known at this time. As always, we will not speculate. We are also limiting the number of similar questions that appear on the subreddit. Our panelists are working hard to offer in-depth responses, so we are referring people to similar posts when applicable. To help, we have compiled a few /r/AskScience resources:
Of course, all this comes with the caveat that this situation is changing rapidly. Your safety is of the utmost importance, and we'd like to remind you not to take medical advice from the internet. Rely on trusted sources like the WHO and CDC, check in with your local health department regularly, and please follow any advice you may receive from your own doctor. AskScience AMAs Second, we wanted to discuss our AMA series a bit. As you know, many schools have either cancelled classes or moved to online learning. This presents a unique set of challenges for students and teachers alike. Many of our expert panelists also teach, and they are working extremely hard to move their courses online very quickly. We are putting out a call for increased AMAs, with the goal of giving as many students as possible the opportunity to interact directly with people who work in STEM fields. This goes for all disciplines, not just those related to COVID-19. We typically host scientists, but we have also had outstanding AMAs from science authors and journalists. As always, we plan only schedule one AMA per day, but we will be making an effort to host them more frequently. To aid in this process, we've created a website for interested parties to use to contact us. We schedule AMAs well in advance, so don't hesitate to contact us now to set something up down the line. If you'd like to do an AMA with your research team, that's great, too (group AMAs are awesome). If you're a student or science educator, please keep an eye on the calendar in the sidebar! As always, feel free to reach out to us via modmail with questions or comments. To kick things off, we'd like to cordially invite to join us for an AMA with author Richard Preston on March 17. He is the author of a number of narrative nonfiction books, including The Hot Zone, The Demon in the Freezer, and Crisis in the Red Zone. All the best, The /r/AskScience Moderation Team [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2020 04:00 AM PDT For many years I've written about viruses, epidemics, and biology in The New Yorker and in a number of books, known collectively as the Dark Biology Series. These books include The Hot Zone, a narrative about an Ebola outbreak that was recently made into a television series on National Geographic. I'm fascinated with the microworld, the universe of the smallest life forms, which is populated with extremely beautiful and sometimes breathtakingly dangerous organisms. I see my life's work as an effort to help people make contact with the splendor and mystery of nature and the equal splendor and mystery of human character. I'll be on at noon (ET; 16 UT), AMA! [link] [comments]  |
| Why do viruses mostly affect only one species? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 10:25 AM PDT I hope my observation is correct. We talk about a virus jumping from one species to another as a special event, so the normal case seems to be that viruses specialize in one host organism. Most of the machinery of cells is universal, so I wondered why viruses need to specialize. [link] [comments]  |
| Why can't we just put some dead COVID-19 viruses in a syringe and call it a vaccine? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 03:39 AM PDT Isn't that what vaccines are? I know there's a reason why but I'm too ignorant to know it. [link] [comments]  |
| How do grid-scale energy storage facilities determine what is 'excess energy'? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 07:03 AM PDT I've seen a few things lately about energy storage solutions that store the excess energy that is generated by power plants, but I'm not sure how they determine how much energy is 'excess'. My understanding is that the electricity generated is ideally meant to match the electricity required. When more electricity that this is generated, how do these storage facilities know how much of the grid is actually required, and how much they are able to store without affecting everyone else on the grid? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 17 Mar 2020 05:58 AM PDT For all the data that tech companies are supposedly collecting on us, it doesn't seem like the ads I'm shown are really any more relevant to me than Old Media advertising. If anything, it sometimes seems like they're working against themselves. Like, you search the word "lawnmower" once to double-check how it's spelled (don't judge me), and suddenly your feed is flooded with ads for lawnmowers. For all the money and effort that must have been spent on building this system of targeted ads, is there any evidence to suggest that it actually pays off? [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any viruses that don’t make us sick? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 04:02 AM PDT Ok, so there are viruses that cause illnesses as simple as the common cold, all the way up to HIV and Ebola, so have any viruses been discovered that are capable of just living inside us without making us sick? Also, where do viruses come from? I read somewhere how they are different to the life that evolved on Earth and may have come from space. [link] [comments]  |
| Can microscopic organisms retain memory? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 07:52 AM PDT |
| Why do certain events cause someone to develop mental illness? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 07:31 AM PDT Why does staying in isolation for long amounts of time cause someone to go mad? And how do other causes of mental diseases change the way the brain behaves? [link] [comments]  |
| How do asymptomatic people (who don’t cough) transmit COVID-19? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 04:24 PM PDT |
| How does a person develop asthma? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 02:56 AM PDT I know it might seem like a weird question to ask, but how does asthma develop? Does it develop through a bacteria/virus given during birth, similar to Herpes? Is it like a genetical dysfunction/disability (like diabetes)? Is it hereditary? [link] [comments]  |
| Where is the water at during a drought? Isn't the sum total of water on Earth constant through time? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 12:43 AM PDT Is there a place that experiences excess rainfall when another has a drought? [link] [comments]  |
| Do sexual thoughts increase testosterone? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 12:21 AM PDT Heard on an audiobook by Bill Bryson that simply thinking sexual thoughts increases testosterone and thus facilitating facial hair growth. Curious if that's remotely true [link] [comments]  |
| How does the mRNA-1273 vaccine that Moderna is testing work (or is expected to)? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 08:34 AM PDT |
| Is Hempcrete made from MgO or lime vulnerable to degradation by acid rain or carbon dioxide? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 08:08 AM PDT |
| Rehabilitated forests that see an increase in wildlife. Where do they come from? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 01:30 AM PDT Just read an article about a forest planting project and after 20 years various mammals, reptiles and land based creatures returned. Where did they come from? How did they get there again after they were driven out previously? [link] [comments]  |
| What physical attributes makes a virus airborne? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 07:00 AM PDT Do they get longer spikes that catch air currents like dandelion seeds? Or is their shell more aerodynamic? Or maybe the shell is tougher, allowing the virus to survive in the open air as opposed to viruses that lose cohesion when exposed to the elements? [link] [comments]  |
| What is neural phase-locking and how does it relate to music? Posted: 17 Mar 2020 06:57 AM PDT I've seen websites online which claim to offer music that can induce neural phase-locking which apparently helps with concentration? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 11:15 PM PDT I was in the road today, and noticed the lack of traffic which got me thinking there's probably fewer accidents too, then I began contemplating if from a utilitarian point of view if this pandemic was actually a good thing? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2020 02:46 PM PDT Chicken pox, for example, lays dormant in the body for decades before potentially manifesting as shingles. Any clues as to weather COVID-19 could do something similar? [link] [comments]  |
| Were there any new islands etc., which were discovered when Satellits started to map the world? Posted: 16 Mar 2020 02:08 PM PDT I wondered if - when satellites began to correctly map the world - scientists found new Islands or new places which were never known before and if so, which one? [link] [comments]  |
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