The New York Times published a vaccine efficacy explainer, using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as an example, that describes how the different percentage figures are calculated.
The University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance created a Bitcoin Electricity Consumption index, including a neat dashboard showing a mining map and comparing the consumption of electricity by the Bitcoin network with those of countries, and boiling all the kettles in the UK and the EU, among other comparisons.
Highlighted by MathematicsUCL on Twitter, Cistercian monks in the 13th century developed a cypher system to prepresent numbers from 1 to 9999 in one symbol.
Olof Hoverfält tracked every piece of clothing that he wore for three years. The resulting analysis, data and charts published on Reaktor is a fascinating read. Olof analyses his clothing on cost per wear, performance and sustainability. His advice after three years is buy and wear what you need and love, and don't waste time on second tier clothing.
Pete Stollery has created a project on Google Earth called COVID-19 Sound Map that allows people to upload soudns of their environments during lockdown to Google Earth. You can explore what the lockdown sounds like aroudn the world here.
Five Thirty Eight have written a piece describing how easily COVID-19 can spread during multiple Thanksgiving dinners. Things to keep in mind for Christmas dinner.
El País published another great COVID-19 data visualisation this week (first one here) illustrating the spread of aersols indoors in a room, bar and classroom. Mask and adequate ventilation severly reduce the risk of contamination.
