[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Meeting Reminder: John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854, presented by Jerry Slate. On Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at 10AM ET. Lexington Computer and Technology Group Online Meeting via Zoom

[Jerry Harris]

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a great book on the cholera outbreak and
John Snow's role in proving large cities are viable.

Here's the famous water pump in London today missing its handle that John
Snow removed.
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Jerry

On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 1:29 PM Jonathan Goode <jonathan.goode at gmail.com>
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> *April 6, 2022*
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> *John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic of 1854*, presented by Jerry Slate
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> *John Snow (1813 – 1858) was a British physician who became interested in
> the transmission of cholera. At the time, airborne transmission of disease,
> miasma, was the accepted model for cholera. When Snow showed his data on
> the cholera epidemic of 1854 (in a manner not previously seen), there was
> much resistance in the scientific community to a paradigm shift.*
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> *April 13, 2022*
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> Craig Fields on *DARPA* (not to be recorded at speaker's request) Dr.
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> *Space Update* (conclusion) George Gamota
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> *Virus Follow-up: Browser Guards.* *https://youtu.be/Uy9N8rb0zUk
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