2021-01-21 Paras Chopra surgery is different than medicine. All new pharmaceutical molecules are subjected to rigorous clinical trials where they’re tested against placebo or doing nothing. In many countries, there’s no such procedure for surgical treatments. If there is a…
2021-01-16 Tom Parker “If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban, it’s not going to be the same speech as the speech you hate.”
2021-01-13 Bruce Schneier There’s not ever going to be enough police or security at any event to stop people if they all act in unison; if enough people want to get to Vanilla Ice at the same time, they’re going…
2020 Taylor G. Lunt . . . I don’t agree with the pro-life opinion I expressed in this essay. This was a thought exercise: take on a position I disagree with, and try to make it as strong as possible.…
2020-09-10 Ned Batchelder
2020-07-25 Joseph A. Wulfsohn “Do you sometimes — because I follow you on Twitter and I know I do this… do you ever tweet out and be like — you wake up and, ‘Aw man, I wish I didn’t send…
2019-12-06 Dwight Stirling When police are revealed to have killed an unarmed suspect or used excessive force during arrest, police generally defend those actions. Cops who report wrongdoing are routinely ostracized as “rats” and denied promotions, according to a 1998…
2020-03-03 Dan Heath When you spend years responding to problems, you can sometimes overlook the fact that you could be preventing them.
2020-02-10 Miguel Ferreira The only way you can get people to do anything is by giving them what they want. How David Bowie charmed journalists.
2020-01-26 by Ben Carlson “there were many stories in the local papers about the dilapidated state of the famous Eiffel Tower. A light bulb went off in Lustig’s head. He set about creating a fake government role for himself, complete…