An ICU Doctor Reports From the Frontline ICU nurses are some of the true heroes of this pandemic. George Godfrey 3 May 2020 · 7 min read Douris, Lebanon, 7 April 2020. Frontline staff on COVID Ward A at Dar Al Amal University Hospital’s novel coronavirus treatment facility. They are currently caring for five patients, two in the ICU. Elizabeth Fitt/Alamy Live News
Google and the Gemini Debacle This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered. Toadworrier 18 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real? Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously. Maarten Boudry 18 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
Podcast #233: Creating a Safe Space for ‘Problematic’ Women Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Meghan Daum about The Unspeakeasy, a ‘community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations’ Quillette / Meghan Daum 15 Mar 2024 · 28 min read
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Covid Pandemic Overselling Covid vaccines during the pandemic has backfired and played into the hands of the anti-vaccine movement. Roger Bate 15 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
A Different Way of Fighting In the 18th instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes the confusion that resulted when French and Indigenous fighters jointly assaulted an Iroquois village in 1615. Greg Koabel 14 Mar 2024 · 28 min read
You Can’t Buy an Authentic Self We should be wary of teaching the next generation that identity is something that can be bought. Freya India 14 Mar 2024 · 7 min read