Physics Ph.D., Value Investor. Asst. Director at @NASCENT_ERC Nanomanufacturing Center at UT Austin.
Austin, TX
Joined February 2013
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Larry Dunn retweeted
🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 Officers continue their search for missing 3-year-old Lina Sadar Khil. She went missing from a San Antonio playground. Lina weighs 55 lbs, brown eyes and hair. bit.ly/3H9FhCG
Call the Missing Person's Unit with any information: 210-207-7660
Larry Dunn retweeted
I was sad to learn today that my friend & @8VC partner lost his uncle to COVID-19 in India. The pandemic is getting worse there, and they need more vaccines.
In honor of his family, I will donate $50 for every re-tweet, up to $125,000 USD, to help with efforts in India. (1/2)
Hi @AustinWater, @austintexasgov, @MayorAdler — The @EPA recommends adding small amounts of bleach to water that is unsafe for drinking (due to pathogens) if boiling water is not an option. Is this something the city should be recommending? epa.gov/ground-water-and-dri…
Excellent podcast by @lexfridman, interviewing astronomer Avi Loeb about #Oumuamua (the interstellar object that visited our solar system in 2017). Interesting things they discuss: 1/4
Turns out that #Oumuamua is actually *at rest* with respect to our local galaxy frame of reference (obtained by averaging over the motion of all of the stars in the "neighborhood of the sun"). This is true for only 1/500 stars. WE bumped into IT, not the other way around. 3/4
Huge implications. Avi Loeb speculates that #Oumuamua might actually be one object in a grid of "road posts" to aid aliens with navigation when traveling in this part of the galaxy. Mind blowing stuff. 4/4
youtu.be/plcc6E-E1uU
“An Indonesian cave painting of a warty pig, sporting a pair of large bumps on its neck, ranks among the oldest known artistic portrayals of an actual object or living thing, researchers say.” At least 45,000 years old!!! sciencenews.org/article/olde…
We should never forget that as human beings we have the ability to make the future mind-blowingly awesome
youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
Larry Dunn retweeted
Researchers have found live coronavirus in the air at a distance of nearly 16 feet from a patient. nyti.ms/2CyJ4hy
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“How could this animal even breathe or swallow? And then there is the evolutionary question: Why on earth did this animal evolve this ridiculously long neck?” nyti.ms/2DXRuPU
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CDC calls out face masks with valves -- they do not stop spread of coronavirus because the valve lets exhaled air out. Airlines are banning them. Others should, too. washingtonpost.com/health/20…
242 million years ago, a creature called Tanystropheus looked like an underwater carnivorous giraffe. It was 20 feet long and had a 9 foot long neck. Humans have been around for only ~50k years. (50k x 4840 = 242 million) nytimes.com/2020/08/12/scien…
Larry Dunn retweeted
We need readily accessible, rapid #COVID19 testing that can provide results in real time. @CDCgov is working with local and state health partners to meet this need. More from #CNNTownHall with @AndersonCooper and @DrSanjayGupta: CNN.it/go @CNN
Just took my dad to have a #COVID19 test in #Austin. My question: why did they have to stick what looked like a hard plastic porcupine tail (not even a cotton swab) 3 inches up his nose when people in Hong Kong can get tested with saliva samples? @tomaspueyo
Travis county (Austin) has ~2.8k active cases. Assuming (per CDC) that we’re only catching ~10% of active cases, that’s ~28k total. Out of ~1.3M Travis county pop, that means #COVID19 infection rate in Austin is ~2.2%, or 1 out of every 45 people. kxan.com/news/texas/what-we-…
I would like us to stay calibrated regarding #COVID19: Taiwan (pop. 23.5M) has had 447 cases and 7 deaths. If the US had performed that well we would have (for 329M people) 6.2k cases and 98 deaths. We should keep reminding ourselves that success against the virus is possible!
