From Medical Device Network: The UK National Health Service (NHS) is set to initiate the trial of Galleri blood test that can potentially detect over 50 types of cancers. Developed by GRAIL, the test is capable of detecting early-stage cancers through a simple blood test. In rese … | Continue reading
Sander van der Linden in Scientific American: For centuries people have pondered the meaning of dreams. Early civilizations thought of dreams as a medium between our earthly world and that of the gods. In fact, the Greeks and Romans were convinced that dreams had certain propheti … | Continue reading
Immigrant Confession The Cherokee are not originally from Oklahoma. Settlers forced them to disappear west, into air and sky, beyond buildings, beyond concrete, beyond the rabid land hunger. There was a trail. There was despair. Reservations carved out of prairie grass, lost spac … | Continue reading
Justin E. H. Smith in his Substack Newsletter: You might recall the strange case of Matthew J. Mayhew, professor of educational administration at The Ohio State University. In late September he published an opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed enumerating the many supposed virtues o … | Continue reading
Ian Sample in The Guardian: At the heart of Oxford’s effort to produce a Covid vaccine are half a dozen scientists who between them brought decades of experience to the challenge of designing, developing, manufacturing and trialling a safe vaccine at breakneck speed. Prof Sarah G … | Continue reading
Costica Bradatan in the Los Angeles Review of Books: “AND WHAT ABOUT unbiased research? What about pure knowledge?” bursts out the more idealistic of the two debaters. Before the other, the more cynical one, even has a chance to answer, the idealist ambushes him with even grander … | Continue reading
Vivek Menezes in Scroll.in: Our quest centres on this simple question: why do so many languages and cultures identify these North American natives as “the birds from India” (oiseaux d’Inde, or simply dinde in French). I believe one important clue is what the Turks call it themsel … | Continue reading
Michael Hopkins in Christian Science Monitor: Truth is, this year has seen plenty of gratitude, instinctively and generously expressed. The people applauding out their windows for emergency responders, the heart signs, the food deliveries to essential workers, the neighborhood tr … | Continue reading
Burkhard Bilger in The New York Times: Mark Ellison stood on the raw plywood floor, staring up into the gutted nineteenth-century town house. Above him, joists, beams, and electrical conduits crisscrossed in the half-light like a demented spider’s web. He still wasn’t sure how to … | Continue reading
Cade Metz at the NYT: He called the next day. We went out for lunch. We went out for dinner. We went out for drinks. We went out for dinner again. We went out for drinks again. We went out for dinner and drinks again. We went out for dinner and drinks and dinner and… | Continue reading
Brain is most like a priest who revels in the body’s feast and says to much and asks how Long and sings his own electric song until he totters on his shelf and as he falls forgives himself by John Stone from In All This Rain Louisiana State University Press, 1980 | Continue reading
Jill Neimark in Undark: IF THE BOOK of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo once declared, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought that truth home for the world’s mathematicians, who have been galvanized by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. So far this year, … | Continue reading
Jill Neimark in Undark: IF THE BOOK of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo once declared, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought that truth home for the world’s mathematicians, who have been galvanized by the rapid spread of the coronavirus. So far this year, … | Continue reading
Rhodes Center · Austerity Myths and the Health of Nations: What Malawi Tells Us About the Construction of Scarcity | Continue reading
Rhodes Center · Austerity Myths and the Health of Nations: What Malawi Tells Us About the Construction of Scarcity | Continue reading
Chris Hedges in Common Dreams: Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising US elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party leaders and their courtiers in the media now insist, is evidence th … | Continue reading
Chris Hedges in Common Dreams: Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising US elections. The Biden victory, the Democratic Party leaders and their courtiers in the media now insist, is evidence th … | Continue reading
Rachel Nuwer in Smithsonian: When Paul Koudounaris visited Los Angeles’ North Central Animal Shelter one sunny afternoon in 2011, he didn’t intend to adopt the feline who would go on to become the inspiration for what is almost certainly the most unique cat history book ever publ … | Continue reading
Rachel Nuwer in Smithsonian: When Paul Koudounaris visited Los Angeles’ North Central Animal Shelter one sunny afternoon in 2011, he didn’t intend to adopt the feline who would go on to become the inspiration for what is almost certainly the most unique cat history book ever publ … | Continue reading
Poem in Praise of Perfect Pants ….—Inspected by No. 9 …. In case of defect, return …. this tag with garment. Number 9, I found your tag in the pocket. The pants fit, in fact not altogether your doing since I have since readjusted my own inches. Still, at the other end of whatever … | Continue reading
Poem in Praise of Perfect Pants ….—Inspected by No. 9 …. In case of defect, return …. this tag with garment. Number 9, I found your tag in the pocket. The pants fit, in fact not altogether your doing since I have since readjusted my own inches. Still, at the other end of whatever … | Continue reading
Carl Zimmer and Rebecca Robbins in The New York Times: This month has seen a torrent of news about experimental vaccines to prevent Covid-19, with the latest development from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. On Monday they announced that a preliminary analysis showed th … | Continue reading
Carl Zimmer and Rebecca Robbins in The New York Times: This month has seen a torrent of news about experimental vaccines to prevent Covid-19, with the latest development from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. On Monday they announced that a preliminary analysis showed th … | Continue reading
Michael Taussig at Cabinet Magazine: Drugs were doubtless important to Benjamin, who had first smoked hashish in Berlin in 1927. They confirmed his approach to reality and revolution, to art and politics—an approach shaped and sharpened by his experience of Ibiza. He stayed on th … | Continue reading
Michael Taussig at Cabinet Magazine: Drugs were doubtless important to Benjamin, who had first smoked hashish in Berlin in 1927. They confirmed his approach to reality and revolution, to art and politics—an approach shaped and sharpened by his experience of Ibiza. He stayed on th … | Continue reading
Leah Hampton at Guernica: Though most people associate Nina Simone with the jazz clubs of New York and Paris, she grew up here, in rural Appalachia. Her home is only a few miles from my mother’s house, in an area that is more genteel and diverse than the rest of the region. In we … | Continue reading
Leah Hampton at Guernica: Though most people associate Nina Simone with the jazz clubs of New York and Paris, she grew up here, in rural Appalachia. Her home is only a few miles from my mother’s house, in an area that is more genteel and diverse than the rest of the region. In we … | Continue reading
Namit Arora in The Baffler: SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 25, 1975, over six hundred political leaders, social activists, and trade unionists in India were rudely awakened by knocks on their doors. By dawn, they had been placed behind bars for inciting “internal disturbance.” I … | Continue reading
Namit Arora in The Baffler: SOMETIME AFTER MIDNIGHT ON JUNE 25, 1975, over six hundred political leaders, social activists, and trade unionists in India were rudely awakened by knocks on their doors. By dawn, they had been placed behind bars for inciting “internal disturbance.” I … | Continue reading
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: Cosmologists say that they have uncovered hints of an intriguing twisting in the way that ancient light moves across the Universe, which could offer clues about the nature of dark energy — the mysterious force that seems to be pushing the cosmos to … | Continue reading
Davide Castelvecchi in Nature: Cosmologists say that they have uncovered hints of an intriguing twisting in the way that ancient light moves across the Universe, which could offer clues about the nature of dark energy — the mysterious force that seems to be pushing the cosmos to … | Continue reading
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George Soros in Project Syndicate: Hungary and Poland have vetoed the European Union’s proposed €1.15 trillion ($1.4 trillion) seven-year budget and the €750 billion European recovery fund. Although the two countries are the budget’s biggest beneficiaries, their governments are a … | Continue reading
George Soros in Project Syndicate: Hungary and Poland have vetoed the European Union’s proposed €1.15 trillion ($1.4 trillion) seven-year budget and the €750 billion European recovery fund. Although the two countries are the budget’s biggest beneficiaries, their governments are a … | Continue reading
Will Harrison at The Hudson Review: There’s a passage in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which the French theorist, eyeing his own author photo (turned head, silvered temples, faintly illuminated desk) exclaims: “But I never looked like that!” And yet, how can one know? You a … | Continue reading
Will Harrison at The Hudson Review: There’s a passage in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which the French theorist, eyeing his own author photo (turned head, silvered temples, faintly illuminated desk) exclaims: “But I never looked like that!” And yet, how can one know? You a … | Continue reading
Lucy Scholes at The Paris Review: If the Australian writer and critic Thelma Forshaw is remembered for anything today, it’s most likely the hatchet job that she gave Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch in 1972. Of the many reviews the book received, Forshaw’s—published in the Age, … | Continue reading
Lucy Scholes at The Paris Review: If the Australian writer and critic Thelma Forshaw is remembered for anything today, it’s most likely the hatchet job that she gave Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch in 1972. Of the many reviews the book received, Forshaw’s—published in the Age, … | Continue reading
Afterthoughts of Lazarus I’m glad you brought me back, but this business of dying has its own attractions The self grows smaller—not less—but smaller … harder, intense like carbon … growing bright or dark in the deep earth. You glide to the ideal of the point, … location without … | Continue reading
Afterthoughts of Lazarus I’m glad you brought me back, but this business of dying has its own attractions The self grows smaller—not less—but smaller … harder, intense like carbon … growing bright or dark in the deep earth. You glide to the ideal of the point, … location without … | Continue reading