Ari Herzog

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I am Vaccinated

Ari Herzog

With these three words, I join a growing echelon of the world’s population who are willing to be injected with bioengineered technology in humanity’s fight against SARS-CoV-2. I received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, comprised of a modified adenovirus and other genetic code to tell my body to stimulate an immune response if I get infected with the virus.

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My First Amazon Review

Ari Herzog

I created my Amazon account in 1998. Every time I search for a product, I sort the resulting list by average customer reviews. This enables me to peruse how many total reviews were written and which percentage gave four and five stars. Then, I click into product description pages and scroll down to read other people’s reviews. If one product has fewer reviews than another product, I buy the item with more reviews.

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Portrait of the Coronavirus

Ari Herzog

5 countries. 96 hospitals. 27,584 patients. 187,802 lab tests. …and 1 disease called COVID-19. A team of international researchers analyzed electronic medical records for coronavirus cases from January 1 to April 11 in France, Italy, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. The report summary is fascinating. Related Stories No End in Sight Let There Be Sound Look to Asia.

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On Doing More With Less

Ari Herzog

Joshua Becker , Rachel Jonat , Ashley Ambirge , and Leo Babauta are among my favorite bloggers who preach the benefits of doing more with less. They write about minimalism. There is a 3-step process to embrace it: 1. Accept you have clutter. 2. Reduce the clutter. 3. Be more productive without the clutter. Many friends think I am crazy when I tell them I got rid of hundreds of books a decade ago and currently own less than 30.

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The Mister Machine

Ari Herzog

The Denver Broncos are the latest owners of a “misting booth” to disinfect players with a nontoxic spray. When players walk through the booth, resembling X-ray machines in government buildings, they get misted. Shared on the NFL team’s Twitter page , the gut reaction was disbelief. Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding , an epidemiologist: “This is not a real public health intervention.

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Thinking About Disabling Blog Comments

Ari Herzog

I remember when commenting was a feature at the bottom of every newspaper and media website article. Initially, anyone could add a comment without a profile. That led to vulgarity and incivility, which in turn began moderation with publishers employing a mix of robot algorithms and human checkers. Readers grew frustrated with the lag between the time they posted their comments and the time the comments were approved.

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Why I Deleted 52,000+ Tweets

Ari Herzog

My first tweet from @ariherzog was on September 30, 2009 but I can’t link to it because it’s not there. It’s probably accessible in the Wayback Machine or from archived search engine crawls — but it’s erased from Twitter’s servers. (I initially joined Twitter on April 5, 2007 but I can’t link to that either because that account was deleted in 2009.).