Public Health

My Corona: Authorities, Bureaucracies, and the Illusions of Safety Coronavirus

My Corona: Authorities, Bureaucracies, and the Illusions of Safety

Kristin Devine March 1, 2020

I understand that COVID19 is scary. I’m not thrilled about it either. But I don’t trust these...

Thursday Throughput: Zebra Stripes and Supernovae

Michael Siegel October 10, 2019

Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we...

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Thursday Throughput

Michael Siegel October 25, 2018

No, a quarter of millennials are not experiencing PTSD because of the election. A few months...

Daniel Summers: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made pediatricians’ jobs a lot harder 9717442774_16ee0665cc_b_vaccination

Daniel Summers: Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just made pediatricians’ jobs a lot harder

Mike Schilling January 12, 2017

If enough parents refuse to have their children vaccinated, the herd immunity that protects the nation as...

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But I Fear

Burt Likko September 22, 2014

Burt Likko is mildly surprised that the political response didn't include confiscation of law-abiding citizens' hunting rifles...

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Coca-Cola: Saving the World From its Own Practices

Ethan Gach September 27, 2013

Coca Cola is partnering to deliver clean drinking water to small villages around the world, even as...

Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeThe last part of my interview for a job with the Colorado legislature's joint budget committee was t…
CJColucci on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeLee said he doesn’t know a single student at the school who isn’t using AI to cheat. Birds of a feat…
Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025The Daily Princetonian reports: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions o…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025First term it was a "blink and you'll miss it" thing, but yes it was on the RoR. I can't google up a…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"Testing or measuring procedures cannot be determinative in employment decisions unless they have so…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I am not remembering this from the first Trump administration at all. I suppose it has to do somethi…
Dark Matter in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025they’re not even offering the second [a negotiated deal] If the Palestinians were to offer to match…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixotic quest…
LeeEsq in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Than the Palestinian leadership should negotiate with the Israeli government rather than go on quixo…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeI don't think that Griggs v. Duke Power Co says what you think it says. Or, alternately, you think r…