Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…
Society, Politics and History
Saturday, 08.02.2020 – Why do PISA Results of Immigrant Students Depend so strongly On Country of Origin
Link of the day: Why Do the Results of Immigrant Students Depend So Much on Their Country of Origin and so Little on Their Country…
Thursday, 06.02.2020 – Educated Fools
Link of the day: Why Democratic Leaders Still Misunderstood the Politics of Social Class The Democratic Party has a fundamental problem: Almost none of its…
05.02.2020 – How Sweden, Britain and the US Bent the Law to Suppress Julian Assange
Link of the day: UN special rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer about Julian Assange (German) “Nach Aussagen der betroffenen Frau selber hat es nie eine…
Tuesday, 04.02.2020 – Why Companies Abandon The Development of New Antibiotics
Links of the day: Biopharma has abandoned antibiotic development. Here’s why we did, too. Recently, I wrote a piece arguing that pharma companies should be…
Cognitive inequality
It has by now become a well-known trope that automation of low-skilled jobs hits certain parts of the population much harder than others. And that…
Monday, 27.01.2020 – Focus on the Right Food to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint, Not on Eating Local Food
Link of the day: The effects of food choices on climate change The article gives a very interesting overview over what kind of food choices…
The Pharma Industry is Broken and Medication Should Be Directly Sold To States
The Problem The pharmaceutical industry clearly is not working as it should be. Not only did an industry that makes people healthier, happier and helps…
Saturday 25.01.2020 – Tracking Cell Phone Data
Link of the day: Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Locations of cell phone users are not only tracked by governments, secret services and…
Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?
In 1999 the Russian biochemist Vladimir Skulachev coined the term Phenoptosis in his paper. In analogy to apoptosis (planned cell death), where cells undergo a…