"One" Thing Wednesday - Volume 1
Your regular update of random things I've found and HAVE to share.
Welcome to the first edition of “One” Thing Wednesday.
The “one” is in quotes because I really want to share more than one thing, but “multiple things Wednesday” didn’t roll off the tongue and the obvious “Many Things Monday” isn’t an option because that’s when I send out my regular (free) weekly post. Yes. That’s both arbitrary and inflexible, but it’s my blog.
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"One" Thing Wednesday - Volume 1
The end of the line for “meteorologists”
It’s a running joke that weather forecasters seem to be particularly bad at their jobs. It’s not really their fault though. They are using very complex models that include things like fluid dynamics and potentially billions of variables. You’d think this would start to make things more accurate, but it really hasn’t.
A new approach from Google seems to change that by using historical data more heavily and offering much. more accurate forecasts.
Additional accountability for insurance carriers
ProPublica has done a ton of great investigative work over the years, but it’s recently turned its eye towards healthcare including health insurers. It’s recent story about denials for cancer treatments is particularly brutal. And now they’re released a tool that makes it easy to find out why a claim was denied by any insurer. Turns out that most people in US have the right to know exactly why a claim was denied and this tool takes you through the steps, which you can imagine aren’t simple and involve the US Mail in 2023.
No do-overs
This clip from the amazing show “Connections” with James Burke was a once-in-a-lifetime and perfectly timed. Just watch it.
One more thing to worry about
In case you didn’t have enough on your mind, here’s one more thing to be paranoid about. Turns out that dishwasher detergents and rinse aids may be killing your gut. Check out the study here.
Before you freak out too much, know that this appears to only be in commercial dishwashers (so, just don’t eat out) and it was only demonstrated in vitro using a “gut-on-a-chip,” a term which I will try to use in the course of conversation today.
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