There are a plethora of news stories and reports about declining enrollment at colleges and universities. Of course, not every college and university have enrollment challenges in fact, some are…
So ends another intriguing week on Planet Earth, with former CIA Director, John Brennan revealing that unexplained UFO phenomenon might constitute a different form of life to Hubble’s first image on an exoplanet to Michio Kaku suggesting that the Universe is simpler than we think to Marie Curie’s still radioactive notebooks.
‘Exotic compact objects’ could soon break physics, new study suggests–Gravitational wave detectors could soon uncover hints of new physics from exotic compact objects, reports Space.com.–“”We can’t be so naïve to presume that we know everything that is out there,” Luís Longo, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Universidade Federal do ABC in São Paulo, Brazil, told Live Science.
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At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching.
I know that these are daily vaccinations. But the pandemic is a multiplicative process. To me, the best curves of all would be rising continuously until there’s a sudden drop, because there’s nobody left to vaccinate. It’s too soon to see these numbers dropping. This should worry people. (The Northeast jump was an enormous reporting error, now rectified, though I
Seven Must Reads for the CRE Industry Today (Apr. 20, 2021) Liberal lawmakers proposed $100 billion investment into modernizing the nation’s public housing system, reports The New York Times. Baby boomers are moving closer to their children after COVID-19, according to the Wall Street Journal. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.
Progressives Propose Tripling Housing Commitment in Infrastructure Plan “Top liberal lawmakers unveiled legislation on Monday that would pour more than $100 billion over a decade into modernizing the public housing system and starting a transition to renewable energy, as progressives seek to prod President Biden to expand his far-reaching infrastructure plan.” (