Things are changing by virtue of the impacts of the #CoVID19 pandemic.
Tomorrow we'll have another video catch-up with a long-term mate and former work colleague in England. He's a couple of years older than me, his wife tragically is in a nursing home with early onset dementia and therefore in complete lockdown. An utterly sad position for him. Fortunately the video catch-up option with us and another couple who are in New York (what a place to currently be!) are hopefully of some benefit to my mate.
Additionally some of my former local work-mates are going to try a virtual catch-up possibly involving consumption of alcohol on either Saturday or Sunday evening. A novel concept that would have not occurred five weeks ago when we all met for dinner at our favourite Thai restaurant.
Listening earlier to the excellent ABC podcast "Coronacast" that a team lead by professor Markus Bühler at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) with use of IBM's Watson AI have represented the outer spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in music by assigning musical notes to the amino acids that make up the protein. The duration and timing is based on the shapes the protein forms.
The music which lasts almost two hours to my ears is very appealing. Does that mean my brain is attuned to this protein and does that mean I could be more likely to catch the infection? Is likevtgevtunebplayed by the Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Here's the music on Soundcloud:
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