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First Doses First

The UK moved to a first dose first strategy, where they prioritize vaccine uptake over administering second doses. This means that instead of administering the…

30. December 202030. December 2020
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Could we Vaccinate Twice as Many People?

Michael Minna raises an intriguing possibility in an opinion piece in the New York Times: Instead of giving people two shots of a vaccine, we…

19. December 202019. December 2020
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Losing Taiwan Means Losing Japan

Interesting article about the geopolitical importance of Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan is a chokepoint of great utility for blockading Japan. The Taiwan Strait, it notes,…

17. December 202019. December 2020
Categories Science, Statistics

Crowd-Forecasting the Covid-19 Pandemic

Some time ago I started working on a crowd-forecasting app for my PhD (code). The app allows experts and non-experts to make predictions for the…

26. November 202030. November 2020
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Who Should Get a Vaccine and When?

Announcements of early coronavirus vaccine breakthroughs have inspired new hope this may be the beginning of the end of Covid-19. Developing a vaccine is one…

12. November 202013. November 2020
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Replication Markets for Covid-19 Preprints

ReplicationMarkets is launching another project – this time users are asked to predict and bet on the success of preprint papers on Covid-19. The process…

7. November 20209. November 2020
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How the Virus Spreads

El PaĆ­s published an article with very nice visualizations of how the coronavirus spreads via aerosols. It’s a light and informative read. Main takeaways: The…

4. November 20204. November 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

Using Facial Recognition to Identify Police Officers

In many instances, police have used facial recognition technology to identify protesters and suspects. Clearview AI, a private company, has collected billions of photos from…

31. October 202031. October 2020
Categories Science

Ten Years of Retraction Watch

Retraction Watch is a watchdog organization that monitors scientific misconduct and, well, watches the retraction of scientific articles. Not only is their work very thorough…

28. October 202028. October 2020
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How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

NPR’s Planet Money recently released an episode where they tell the story of how big plastic companies convinced the public to recycle more. At that…

21. October 202021. October 2020

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