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  1. Mar 2021
  2. www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
    Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates
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    1. davidk01 13 Mar 2021
      “There is very little incentive for Microsoft to make a significant change to features that are used extremely widely by the rest of the massive community of Excel users.”

      Microsoft did the right thing here. Most users are not geneticists and they rely on automatic date conversion.

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  3. Jun 2020
  4. onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
    Reducing SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in the UK: A behavioural science approach to identifying options for increasing adherence to social distancing and shielding vulnerable people
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    1. Gaurav_Saxena 19 Jun 2020

      Michie, Susan, Robert West, M. Brooke Rogers, Chris Bonell, G. James Rubin, and Richard Amlôt. “Reducing SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the UK: A Behavioural Science Approach to Identifying Options for Increasing Adherence to Social Distancing and Shielding Vulnerable People.” British Journal of Health Psychology n/a, no. n/a. Accessed May 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12428.

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