Tag: health

• We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World

  April 12, 2020

  an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain… more ›

• How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America

  March 3, 2020

  The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States Haskell… more ›

• Personal Genomics: Where Are We, Really?

  January 12, 2020

  By Andreessen Horowitz This is a turn of the decade (and January-themed) look backward/ look forward into personal genomics, given recent and past retrospective and prospective pieces in the media… more ›

• Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding—Stephen Wolfram Writings

  December 15, 2019

  Logic is a foundation for many things. But what are the foundations of logic itself? In symbolic logic, one introduces symbols like p and q to stand for statements (or… more ›

• The Myth of a Superhuman AI

  November 17, 2019

  I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go extinct. Is… more ›

• This Company Built a Private Surveillance Network. We Tracked Someone With It

  September 22, 2019

  In just a few taps and clicks, the tool showed where a car had been seen throughout the U.S. A private investigator source had access to a powerful system used… more ›

• Bitter leaves: tobacco’s devastating global legacy

  August 21, 2019

  “A crop that can be grown in any warm, damp environment, tobacco can be farmed on all the continents except Antarctica. With this accessibility among other forces, the industry is… more ›

• Don’t change your DNA at home, says America’s first CRISPR law

  August 10, 2019

  It’s going to be illegal in California to sell consumers “gene therapy kits” unless they carry a warning that says not to use them on yourself. Just one wrinkle: we’re… more ›

• Should the Rich Be Allowed to Buy the Best Genes? – Air Mail

  August 4, 2019

  Biology is the new tech. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-7-27/should-the-rich-be-allowed-to-buy-the-best-genes more ›

• Phenological Mismatch

  July 29, 2019

  “Attention,” a voice began to call, and it was as though an oboe had suddenly become articulate. “Attention,” it repeated in the same high, nasal monotone. “Attention. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/273079/phenological-mismatch/ more ›