- How communications technology changes our brains
- The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power
- “…because of poor political decisions [in the US] that every public-health person I know disagreed with, everything that could go wrong did go wrong.”
- Re-opening schools will be much harder than closing them
- Why are cases up and deaths down in the US? Lagging data and more.
- Some good background on the rise of Putin (and KGB power)
- The world is getting angrier, outrage defeats our public discourse, and how poker players are better at dealing with uncertainty
- Colonial powers used opium for income, then made its use criminal.
- Rethinking public spaces in the era of Corona
- The first EMTs in the world were Black guys from Pittsburgh, until they were shut down by a racist mayor
- A funny angry rant on climate change deniers