This was the moment where fainting tends to happen. I reached for the antacids — and then I found I didn’t need them. Somehow, I understood. It made sense. These men were dead, and this is what we look like… Read More ›
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Every solution has a problem
The NHS Covid-19 app was released yesterday and I decided to download it and have a look at how it compares to others. As you can see advice, I then deleted it because I have no faith in the ability… Read More ›
A Failure of Empathy Led to 200,000 Deaths
In reality, the COVID-19 death toll probably passed 200,000 some time ago. And yet “the photos of body bags have not had the same effect in the pandemic” as after other mass-casualty events such as Hurricane Katrina, says Lori Peek,… Read More ›
Dealing with murder in space
Mario Escamilla was furious. A colleague of his, nicknamed Porky, had just stolen his jug of raisin wine. So the 33-year-old Escamilla grabbed a rifle and set out to reclaim it. He had no idea he was about to get… Read More ›
My weird quest to find a lost game
Although the name of the game escaped them, both had a clear memory of how it looked. In the game, you played as anthropomorphised fruit, interacting with other players in a garish 2D environment. The game, they remembered, was linked… Read More ›
Addicted to losing
Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic. The app offers a variety of typical casino games to play, including their favorite, called Reel… Read More ›
A winter of discontent
This article unfolds the likely scenario of a large resurgence of COVID-19 cases this winter after poor planning for foreseeable events. The situation is set to be exacerbated by the spike in cases we are currently witnessing in the UK,… Read More ›
Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk
Periwinkle goes by many names. You might know her by one of her more fabulous monikers, like sorcerer’s violet or fairy’s paintbrush. In Italy, she is called fiore di morte (flower of death), because it was common to lay wreaths… Read More ›
The New Reconstruction
Those staples of the American racial discourse became hard to sustain this year, as the country was enveloped by overlapping national crises. The pandemic exposed the president. The nation needed an experienced policy maker; instead it saw a professional hustler,… Read More ›
It just worked
My daughter’s iPhone 7 started to suffer battery problems and after a quick check in Settings (which showed that a battery service was needed) I booked an appointment through the Apple Support app. We visited the local Apple store today… Read More ›
