I was driving home from a cello lesson when I thought to myself, It is very hazy outside today. I didn’t think much more of it until about an hour later when my phone notified me of an air quality alert for my county. The air had elevated particulate matter levels that fall within the […]
Posts Tagged ‘alerting’
Relaxed and crowded scenes in Wuhan – a year on from first alerting the world to COVID-19
January 24th, 2021 Awake Goy
Exactly one year after it thrust the word “lockdown” into the global conversation, Wuhan passed the anniversary on Saturday with a mix of pride at emerging from COVID-19’s grip and caution over a possible relapse. A year ago, Wuhan shocked the world by confining its 11 million anxious inhabitants to their homes, beginning a traumatic […]
Video shows prof alerting fellow Nobel winner with 2 a.m. door rap
October 13th, 2020 Awake Goy
Jewish American professor Paul Milgrom couldn’t immediately be reached Monday on the phone by the Nobel Prize Committee to inform him that he had won the prestigious award in economics, so it resorted to a creative solution. Instead of the traditional call, Milgrom received the news via a knock on his door in the middle […]