I stumbled across this term and hadn’t heard of it before. It’s a military maneuver that’s a strong symbolic show of force. The U.S. military just did one on Guam this week. | learn more
In October 2019, Yale historian Frank Snowden published Epidemics in Society: From the Black Death to the Present. Click through for some interesting epidemic context based on the plague in Europe. | learn more
I had to look this up this week. I’ve been guilty of using them interchangeably. “Adverse and averse are both turn-offs, but adverse is something harmful, and averse is a strong feeling of dislike. Rainstorms can cause adverse conditions, and […]
“Since 1950, the world has created 6.3 trillion kilograms of plastic waste — and 91 percent has never been recycled even once, according to a landmark 2017 study published in the journal Science Advances.” | learn more
Carrie Mess is a Wisconsin dairy farmer. This is her insightful look into the complexities of supply chains in our modern world. The analysis is applicable to the toilet paper shortage and other categories where the commercial and consumer markets […]
“Computer scientists and biologists have teamed up to make a new class of living robotics that challenge the boundary between digital and biological.” | learn more
“Urine tests that pick up biomarkers of cancer are one way scientists hope to diagnose the disease early, and MIT researchers have demonstrated a particularly promising example that could give efforts to diagnose early-stage lung cancer a huge boost.” | learn more
“Cadavers, childbirth, and the rise of the Soap Industrial Complex all played a part in getting handwashing to catch on.” | learn more
“In a [2019] study, researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York City show that machine-learning algorithms can predict with reasonable accuracy which patients undergoing total knee or total hip replacement will report a minimally clinically important difference […]
Paul Graham wrote this essay in March 2008. He recognized that the rise of the internet allowed people to express disagreements more frequently than legacy media. Then he ranked the key methods of disagreement from name-calling to refutation of the […]