Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
Even if all our data is accurate and reliable, we should always ask: “What do we count? Who decides what to count? How do we evaluate the numbers against each other?” This is a political rather than scientific task. It is politicians who should balance the medical, economic and social considerations and come up with a comprehensive policy.
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Three basic rules can go a long way in protecting us from digital dictatorships, even in a time of plague. First, whenever you collect data on people — especially on what is happening inside their own bodies — this data should be used to help these people rather than to manipulate, control or harm them.
Radšej na každodennú otázku, ako sa mám, odpoviem “dobre“ namiesto toho, aby som im povedala, že mám úzkosť z rozprávania na hodinách, že len prázdne scrollujem Instagramom alebo Tiktokom a zabíjam tým čas. Že niekedy už nemám chuť ani písať si s kamarátmi. Že nám všetkým utekajú najlepšie roky života. Nerobím to len preto, lebo sa niekedy nechcem rozprávať. Nechcem ich s tým zaťažovať, pretože mi aj tak nijako pomôcť nedokážu.
Getting Sick for the Sake of Advancing Medical Research
Bernot was participating in a human challenge trial: a kind of study in which researchers infect participants with a pathogen, often for the purpose of testing a new vaccine or treatment. Over the years, challenge trial volunteers have been bitten by malaria-infected mosquitoes, drunk water contaminated with typhoid-causing bacteria, and inhaled various strains of influenza. They have been given whooping cough, cholera, parasitic worms, and even gonorrhea.
How Pfizer Makes Its Covid-19 Vaccine
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On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren’t
When someone is telling me they are or have been poor and I’m trying to determine how poor exactly they were, there’s one evergreen question I ask that has never failed to give me a good idea of what kind of situation I’m dealing with. That question is: “How many times have they turned off your water?”.