I just experienced this when I had to pop out in the car briefly. It’s a big improvement: Apple Launches Revamped Maps App in the United Kingdom and Ireland 🗺
It’s possible that our HomePods are the most used pieces of digital tech in our house at the moment. We’ve lived the six months of the pandemic to a background of music, and it really helps.
I could do with fewer plays of the Trolls World Tour soundtrack, though…
This is a fascinating long read. It suggests that COVID-19 is largely spread by a small number of people in particular settings - super spreading events. And so R may be the wrong way of assessing its spread: K: The Overlooked Variable That’s Driving the Pandemic
Today’s learning: six hours of Zoom feels very different to six hours of in-person lecturing.
However, I’m not facing 90 minutes of travelling before I reach the comfy sofa, so there’s that. 🛋
Today, I am mainly thinking about the health impact on lecturers of spending six hours in front of an iMac Zooming, rather than gamboling, gazelle-like, between lecture theatres and seminar rooms.
