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Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the air, under the tent, and around Baltimore.
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This is your daily podcast of all the events going on around Arts and Ideas.
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Right now as I look out, I see a gaggle of young kids on the mulch pile jumping and hopping
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around.
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Love that mulch pile.
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The weather is a little bit brisk, but otherwise enjoyable here under the tent.
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It's sunny at the moment, which certainly helps.
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We're looking forward to a nice brisk October, and we'll see how all that goes.
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Today we had mandatory announcements, and just a quick recap of that.
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We will be having a 12 to 15 year old check-in meeting on Wednesday at noon, so if you are
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in that age range, please plan on attending.
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If you're just slightly younger than 12, we recommend you come to that.
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I will try to go around and ask those students about that.
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We have two visiting students this week.
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One is a five year old and one is a nine year old, and they seem to be enjoying the great
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outdoors along with us.
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We have an article club, which is on Friday going to discuss a couple of videos on environmental
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stuff.
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One is from Kirkesat, and the other is from Mad Blender.
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So I just watched those two videos.
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It's really nice at 2x speed, pretty quick.
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So it could be an enjoyable discussion.
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And then there's the history class that today was discussing about the rubber luxury that
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was on Wednesday.
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And then this coming Wednesday will be on the American West, cowboys, Indians, miners,
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robin barons, unions, and bikes.
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Let's see, all right.
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There might also be a mention of someone named Myles Kug, and definitely Big Bill Haywood.
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Looking forward to it.
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All right, let's see what else.
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We have, yeah, it was announced that we do have a TV that's available under the tent.
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And so far no one's used it, so that makes me very happy.
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There's also, we have plans to do some outdoor camera watching of some wildlife, maybe caterpillars,
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maybe spiders.
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It's exciting.
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All righty, so that's the I think goings ons.
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I feel like the Gaga Pit wasn't used very much today, which makes me very sad.
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But hopefully tomorrow the ball playing will return.
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We shall see.
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All right.
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It's Millions Monday, so I thought let's investigate virus reproduction, because we've got a pandemic
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going on right now.
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So let's say that, you know, a virus gets into a cell and it generates lots of copies
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of itself using the innards of the cell, very sad for the cell.
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Let's say 10,000 viruses get reproduced in a cell and that 90% of them get killed by
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the body, leaving about a thousand to find new cells to infect and reproduce themselves.
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Doesn't sound so bad initially, right?
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Let's say it takes a day for a viral invader to reproduce itself fully in the cell up to
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10,000.
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Now these are just numbers I made up, although I did look it up and 50,000 for a burst size
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was actually mentioned.
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So maybe that's not so bad.
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I don't know about the kill rate, although we'll see that it has to be much higher because,
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well, we'll get to that in a moment.
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So let's say that starting with just one viral element coming into the cell, that we have,
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you know, how many do we get each day?
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Well, so after one day we get a thousand basically new cells infected, right?
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That's the basic assumption.
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Now each of those 1,000 cells, infected cells generates another thousand.
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So that's a thousand times a thousand or a million for the third day.
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And then each of those million generates another thousand.
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So that's multiply that by a thousand, you get a billion.
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So that's the fourth day.
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Fifth day, again, you multiply by a thousand, you get a trillion.
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And then there's the sixth day, which is one quadrillion.
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Now at this point you're dead because the number of cells in a human body is something
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on the order of 10 to 50 trillion.
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So yeah, they're all consumed at this point.
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Now, of course, this generally means that our immune system must be getting better and
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better at killing these little viral guys and rapidly so.
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And you can play with that.
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You can say, okay, maybe the first day, you know, the first 1,000, none of them get killed.
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So maybe even it's like 10,000.
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And then the body gets wise and it's like, okay, we're doing something.
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And maybe they kill 50% of them all.
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And then maybe it gets up to 80, 90%, 95%, 99%, 99.999%.
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So until it's basically all gone and, you know, it's like wiping them out continually.
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All righty.
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So that's your Millions Monday.
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Basically be thankful for your immune system.
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It does a heck of a job because the reproductive power of an unrelenting virus is not pretty
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to behold.
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All right.
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Incidentally, if it's a bacterial infection, it reproduces far fewer of them because bacteria
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are far larger than viruses.
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But bacteria are also much more robust from being killed.
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So there you go.
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So whether you want to be reincarnated as a virus or bacteria, tough to say, tough to
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say.
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I'll just stick with being human.
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All right.
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Have a good day and talk to you all later.