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The material source “Rabbit Rever” by Susan Orlean published in “New Yorker” in the “July 6 2020” edition The article in 3 sentences The author writes about how the rabbit, apparently domesticated for hundreds of years now, has been all of livestock, fur source and since mid century a third most popular choice of pet in the US. But a highly contagious and highly lethal “Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease” ( RHD the “rabbit Ebola”) caused by a lagovirus from the Caliciviridae family, has been wiping out populations of rabbits outside the US since 1984, but in mid 2019, dead rabbits fitting the RHD signs were showing up in the islands near Seattle and in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico not long after. A protective vaccine was developed within five years of the initial 1984 emergence, but because the production of a “live genetically modified vaccine” is not yet allowed in the US, the vaccine (and another vaccine for a subsequent “RHDV2” variant ) cannot be used here except by rare limited emergency requests allowed by the USDA. ...

I was reading Team of Teams sometime around September 2019. I at least remember reading it in a really cold Starbucks in a mall in Tokyo haha. First, the standard template: The book in three sentences Team of Teams is former General Stanley McChrystal’s account of his time at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in his role in the conflict with AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq) and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. He captures the information sharing struggles US forces in Iraq had that made them struggle in keeping up with AQI’s de-centralized un-command. And he shares the good news of how giving autonomy and decision making to teams stopped central command from being a bottle neck. ...