The researchers found donanemab slowed the decline of cognition and daily function in Alzheimer's patients by 32% after 76 weeks, compared to those who received a placebo.
Taken over 18 months, that 32% slowing of decline could be noticeably impactful for Alzheimer's patients, noted Maria Carrillo, chief science officer at the Alzheimer's Association, who was not involved in the study.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/13/health/alzheimers-donanemab-cognitive-decline/index.html

I am permitting myself to read articles like this again https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-restaurants-in-san-francisco

An explainer: Code coverage analysis helps expose untested code and provides a metric that your QA team can use to improve their processes. Code coverage analysis helps your team delivery a more robust product with fewer unexpected bugs.

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/what-is-code-coverage-analysis/

"Prosthetic arm technology is still so limited that I become more disabled when I wear one. There are very few, special tasks I can do better with it." https://www.inputmag.com/culture/cyborg-chic-bionic-prosthetic-arm-sucks

This is amazing: A tool for searching free-to-use image repositories from several major museums and libraries around the world. https://museo.app

This map tracks vaccinations around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html

Lockdowns, masks (of sorts), and what we now call social distancing were ominous and omnipresent facts of life for Shakespeare, who is understood to have written some of his greatest plays while in home quarantine. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/mar/09/from-plague-puns-to-isolation-creation-what-shakespeare-teaches-us-about-pandemic-life

My "current reading list" is getting a little out of hand.

If it hears you eating chips while you watch a YouTube Video, the AI automatically turns on captions for your video. https://www.reviewgeek.com/73035/lays-browser-extension-turns-on-youtube-captions-when-it-hears-you-eating-chips/

Money for colleges, libraries and clubs: 10 things you might not know are in Biden's COVID-19 relief package. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/10/covid-19-relief-10-things-you-might-not-know-bidens-bill/6936905002/

"Four years on, to the delight of scientists, the coral reefs of the Fijian archipelago are vibrantly resurgent and once again teeming with fish and colour." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/reef-revival-fijis-corals-bouncing-back-after-ruinous-cyclone

Using a combination of human observation and automated detection, the city of Amsterdam has been mapping its bat population. Its data features more than 6,000 observations, the observation routes, bat-detection device placement and findings, and the city’s known bat abodes. https://maps.amsterdam.nl/vleermuizen/

Lou Ottens, who invented the cassette tape, has died. But he always thought taped music sounded noisy and distorted, so it wasn’t surprising that he helped develop the compact disk as well.

I'm sure I'm missing an opportunity for a pencil-related joke.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975598869/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-has-died

To paint his latest mural, Banksy scaled the prison that once jailed Oscar Wilde, laying claim to the artwork in a video stitched together with a Bob Ross tutorial. https://hyperallergic.com/627151/banksy-oscar-wilde/

Room service could take a while https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/voyager-station-space-hotel-scn/

"This unusual sleeping situation wasn’t just a product of Emily Bronte’s imagination: in the not-very-distant past, people all over Europe were content to sleep tucked away in little boxes." https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/box-bed-weird-history-251821

Every season is a good season to look at birds, but spring is especially good. All of the migratory species that flew away to Central and South America for the winter fly back here to mate, and breeding adults sport their brightest, sexiest feathers. https://defector.com/a-bird-idiots-guide-to-birding/

Some personal news.

They say, "When the time is right, the right thing will come along." It came along.

On March 15, I start a new full time job as managing editor at
@TransmissionB2B, a B2B marketing agency that serves high tech companies. I am so excited!

“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Plants give jailbirds a little peace. Their presence has been linked to lower levels of violence and self-harm. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/25/plants-linked-to-lower-levels-of-violence-and-self-harm-in-prisons