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People have started to look at Professor Nancy Baxter strangely when she meets their attempt at a handshake with an elbow bump.
âThereâs a sense of âweâre back to normal, we donât deal with all this COVID stuffâ,â the clinical epidemiologist says.
Australians are in a âhoneymoonâ period as the absence of COVID-19 has allowed people to get up close.
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Australia hasnât seen a significant outbreak of coronavirus since spring last year. In fact, some communities never have, and with just 22 people hospitalised with COVID-19 around the nation, the most tangible sign of the disease is often a bottle of hand sanitiser at the door of the supermarket or cafe.
“Humans are strange…We are the aliens,” observes Columbia University astrophysicist, Caleb Scharf, noting that humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. “We also have a truly outsize impact on the planetary environment without much in the way of natural attrition to trim our influence (at least not yet).
“Like a Sudden Invasion by Extraterrestrials”
“But the strangest thing of all,” notes Scharf for Scientific American, “is how we generate, exploit, and propagate information that is not encoded in our heritable genetic material, yet travels with us through time and space. Not only is much of that information represented in purely symbolic forms alphabets, languages, binary codes it is also represented in each brick, alloy, machine, and structure we build from the materials around us. Even the symbolic stuff is housed in some material form or the other, whether as ink on pages or electrical charges in nanoscale pieces of silicon.