Comparing Covid-19 to leading causes of death, state by state
by Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack
Is love in the attention economy unreal?
by Tara Isabella Burton
Squandering America’s Strength
by M. Anthony Mills
How centralization created a single point of failure in our Covid-19 response
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Not Like the Flu, Not Like Car Crashes, Not Like...
by Ari Schulman, Brendan Foht, and Samuel Matlack
It’s about the spike.
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I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine?
by Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, and Ari Schulman
Covid-19’s low death rate conceals bigger dangers.
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Do Elephants Have Souls?
Listen to the classic 2013 essay by Caitrin Keiper.
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Battlefield Promotions
by Aaron Kheriaty
A call to action for medical students against the Covid-19 pandemic
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Custodians of the Body
by Alan Rubenstein
Our organ donation regime strikes the right balance between generosity to the living and respect for the dead.
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Not as Deadly as We Thought?
by Brendan Foht
Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is a distraction
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Inventing the Universe
by David Kordahl
Are quantum physicists making things up as they go along?
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The Science Before the War
by M. Anthony Mills and Mark P. Mills
How the technological feats of World War II grew out of curiosity-driven research
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The Mathematician and the Mystic
by David Guaspari
Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge
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The Impossible Ethics of Pandemic Triage
by Aaron Kheriaty
Is there a formula for which patients doctors try to save?
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America’s Pandemic Data Gap
by Brendan Foht, Samuel Matlack, and Ari Schulman
The problem isn’t just testing — we still know far too little about what we already know.
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