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Thu. 04/15 - What Do Spiderwebs Sound Like?

Cool Stuff Ride Home

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The CDC says we should wait two weeks after our final COVID-19 vaccination to be considered fully vaccinated, but why? What do spiderwebs sound like? These scientists turned them into music. Google Earth’s latest feature shows us how destructive we’ve been to the planet. And the new YouTube channel I can’t get enough of featuring Hot Wheels on a treadmill. Sponsors: Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Covid vaccine: Why it's wise to wait two weeks after your shot (Mashable) Antibody persistence graph (Ian Haydon, Twitter) Scientists Turned Spiderwebs Into Music, And It's Hauntingly Beautiful (Vice) Spider songs (Markus J. Buehler, YouTube) Google Earth Now Shows You Our Planet’s Slow Deterioration (Wired) Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change (The Verge) Die-Cast Treadmill Series (Steve Wilkins, YouTube)  5/18 episode with Marble Racing segment (Kottke Ride Home) Kominers’s Conundrums: Can You Escape This Column? (Bloomberg) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Jackson Bird.

0:42.3

The CDC says that we should wait two weeks after our final COVID-19 vaccinations to be considered fully vaccinated.

0:50.3

But why?

0:52.3

What do Spiderwebs sound like?

0:55.1

These scientists turned them into music.

0:58.8

Google Earth's latest feature shows us how destructive we have been to the planet.

1:04.8

And the new YouTube channel that I can't get enough of that features hot wheels on a treadmill.

1:12.5

Here are some of the cool things from the news today. So one thing about vaccines that I at least feel like isn't

1:20.3

being super well publicized is the need to wait for two weeks after your last shot before you can

1:27.4

consider yourself fully vaccinated.

1:29.9

And this goes for any of the vaccines you may be getting. So if it's a single shot, like

1:33.5

Johnson and Johnson, you're fully vaccinated two weeks after that single shot. And if it's two

1:38.7

shots, like Moderna or Pfizer, you're fully vaccinated two weeks after your second shot.

1:45.9

That is the official word from the CDC here in the U.S. and is supported by infectious disease experts. But why exactly? Mark Cameron,

1:53.1

an immunologist at Case Western Reserve University, who was instrumental in containing SARS in 2003,

1:58.4

explains it's like vaccines are giving our immune system a to-do list,

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