Albert Einstein resisted attempts to make money on his image. Today, that image earns around $12 million a year in licensing fees.
Albert Einstein resisted attempts to make money on his image. Today, that image earns around $12 million a year in licensing fees.
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Health data can be difficult to communicate.
Health data can be difficult to communicate.
↩︎ xkcd
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This op-ed is dully written but ultimately correct: long Covid needs to be discussed, including medicine’s uncertainty about it.
This op-ed is dully written but ultimately correct: long Covid needs to be discussed, including medicine’s uncertainty about it.
↩︎ STAT
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One possible future for Covid-19: some people get reinfected many times, and a few experience symptoms for months or years.
One possible future for Covid-19: some people get reinfected many times, and a few experience symptoms for months or years.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Was sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline domestic terrorism? An activist appeals her sentence’s “enhancement.”
Was sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline domestic terrorism? An activist appeals her sentence’s “enhancement.”
↩︎ Grist
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Arthur Schopenhauer’s tactics for debate, composed sarcastically, are actually useful suggestions for Twitter arguments.
Carry your opponent’s proposition beyond its natural limits; exaggerate it. The more general your opponent’s statement becomes, the more objections you can find against it.
A. Dirk Moses: Genocide is the “crime of crimes,” but outrage is fickle. The threshold of criminality needs to be reimagined.
A. Dirk Moses: Genocide is the “crime of crimes,” but outrage is fickle. The threshold of criminality needs to be reimagined.
↩︎ Lawfare
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Notes from some tourist travel in Ukraine in April and May, from interrogations to underground concerts, to cats on leashes.
Notes from some tourist travel in Ukraine in April and May, from interrogations to underground concerts, to cats on leashes.
↩︎ Matt Lakeman
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