From consumer-facing products like sleep tracking tech with its Nest Hub smart home devices and Fitbit wearables to clinical initiatives like its Care Studio EHR search tool and its health AI work, Google has intensified its focus on health tech… Read More ›
Health
This Is How We Live With Coronavirus
In the 1980s, doctors at an English hospital deliberately tried to infect 15 volunteers with a coronavirus. COVID-19 did not yet exist—what interested those doctors was a coronavirus in the same family called 229E, which causes the common cold. 229E… Read More ›
I could not just sit there
What on earth are the other passengers doing just sitting there and allowing that? Maybe it’s a freedom of speech thing, but he simply does not deserve that privilege.
We have more than five senses
How many senses does the average human have? Assuming you equate senses with their receptors, such as the retinas in your eyes and the cochlea in your ears, then the traditional answer to this question is five – seeing, hearing,… Read More ›
John Amaechi speaks
When John Amaechi OBE was a boy, his white grandfather would lean out of the car window to shout racist abuse at other drivers whilst he sat in the back. He went on to become the first British NBA star… Read More ›
How does this person get through the day?
This tweet struck me in so many different ways, and few of them are positive. It would appear that the word Pfizer = 666 if you discount the letters P, Z and E, and if you turn the 9 upside… Read More ›
AirPods Pro still making me dizzy…
I wrote about the AirPods Pro and the sense that they made me dizzy with noise cancellation on some time back, and now I can confirm that it definitely happens. A week ago I found myself feeling dizzy and verging… Read More ›
1 in 100,000 will die…
Of the 164 million vaccinated Americans, less than 0.1% have been infected with the coronavirus, and 0.001% have died, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: While “breakthrough cases” have been getting some… Read More ›
Anyone can be brought to their knees by mental health
Tyson Fury is used to having to fight his corner, both in and outside the boxing ring. After scrapping his way to become undefeated heavyweight champion of the world in 2015, he fell into a well-publicised battle with his mental… Read More ›
If Simone Biles had a leg injury it would all be fine…
I won’t write a post about Simone Biles because I don’t need to. I can simply point to If Naomi Osaka had a stutter it would all be fine… which I wrote a while back. Naomi and Simone are showing… Read More ›
