Scientists have detected a new type of coronavirus, NeoCov, among bats in South Africa. Scientists from a lab in China’s Wuhan, where the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was first discovered, have reportedly warned that there is a probability that… Read More ›
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Spotify to remove Neil Young’s music
Spotify on Wednesday confirmed it will remove Neil Young’s music from its platform, after the singer demanded that the streaming giant take it down in response to vaccine misinformation being spread by Joe Rogan, a popular podcaster on the platform…… Read More ›
What happens now to the clinically vulnerable?
Starting from a far higher level of risk, those with suppressed immune systems also get less protection from vaccines and are accounting for an increasing proportion of ICU admissions and deaths. Yet many feel like a “forgotten minority”, according to… Read More ›
Should Apple buy Peloton?
Peloton is having a very bad week. On Thursday, CNBC reported that the company is putting the brakes on the production of its products for at least the next two months. It’s as clear a sign as there is that… Read More ›
Outside sponsors = privatisation
Under the re-organisation, Sajid Javid will give more freedom to well-run hospitals that manage to treat patients quickly. But he will come down hard on failing NHS trusts in an attempt to deal with the ‘huge’ variation in performance across… Read More ›
Omicron is ending the pandemic
In the United Kingdom where the Omicron wave is about 2 to 3 weeks ahead of North America, the Chair in Infection and Global Health at the University of Liverpool says the UK is entering “a new Covid-era”, which he… Read More ›
The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’
Nearly 300 years later, in the early 1990s, the historian Roger Ekirch walked through the arched entranceway to the Public Record Office in London – an imposing gothic building that housed the UK’s National Archives from 1838 until 2003. There,… Read More ›
The time that I broke Covid rules
This is a wonderful thread which explains how rules can be broken for the right reason. The reality is that every single person on the planet has broken a Covid rule, either accidentally or on one occasion, but the problem… Read More ›
How to avoid a narcissist
According to Erin Leonard, a practising psychotherapist, understanding the interplay between emotionally intelligent qualities and narcissistic tendencies at various stages in a relationship may help us to be able to see a toxic or abusive dynamic more quickly… More here…. Read More ›
The Fitbit Charge 5 is good, but inconsistent
So far I must say that the Fitbit Charge 5 is a decent fitness tracker in terms of the hardware design. The screen is responsive which is unusual for Fitbit devices and also visible, in a good way, in most… Read More ›
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