Book Review: Demystifying the Idea of Consciousness
In “Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious,” neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores the mystery of consciousness.
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Omicron Happy Talk in the US v. Toughening Restrictions in UK, Israel
An attempt to pull some signal out of a lot of Omicron noise.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: No, Covid 19 Is Not an Old Person Problem
Yves here. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shreds the misguided logic behind Covid age-ism. And that’s before getting to the fact that in South Africa, the notion that the old are more likely to get really sick is simply not true: The newscaster starts by describing an “exponential” rise in cases, then interviews the head of ICU […]
Read more...Vaccine Politics Not Working to Biden Administration Advantage
Omicron and vaccine hesitant essential workers are undermining Biden’s vaccine-fixated Covid strategy.
Read more...How Poorer Citizens Pay the Price of Economic Change in the UK
From the speeding up of deindustrialisation and globalisation that began in the early 1980s to the 2008 financial crisis and the decade of austerity that followed, Britain’s economic system has operated with a built-in inequality bias.
Read more...Probable Vaccine-Escaping Covid Variant Sequenced in Gauteng, South Africa and Spreading Rapidly; Press Underplaying Downside Risk
A very nasty new variant is spreading rapidly and looks to evade monoclonal antibodies and current vaccines. Assume the brace position.
Read more...Misremembering Might Actually Be a Sign Your Memory Is Working Optimally
How does a healthy memory operate?
Read more...New, Radically Different Covid Variant Getting Footholds Now as Media and Officials Remain Complacent
A very different Covid variant has made its way out of Africa into Europe and the US. How worried should you be?
Read more...British Medical Journal: “Researcher Blows the Whistle on Data Integrity Issues in Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial”
A new BMJ article raises serious questions about how Pfizer ran its Covid-19 clinical trial.
Read more...“Why I Still Believe Covid-19 Could Not Have Originated in a Lab”
Lab escape theories cannot clearly account for a virus that has evolved for human-to-human transmissibility.
Read more...Tiny Leaks, Big Impacts: New Research Points to Urban Indoor Methane Leaks
A new carbon reduction target: Researchers in Boston find buildings’ indoor sources emit much more methane than most experts thought.
Read more...Book Review: The ‘Mystery’ Illnesses Informed by Culture
Illness may be even less straightforward than you think.
Read more...Book Review: The Rise of Harm Reduction in the War on Drugs
Maia Szalavitz’s “Undoing Drugs” chronicles the growing harm reduction movement which prioritizes people in the battle against addiction.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...“Are vaccines becoming less effective at preventing Covid infection?”
As more data about the Covid vaccines comes out, it is becoming acceptable to step away from cheerleading and make factual judgments.
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