How Pfizer and Bio-N-Tech Bet on mRNA
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, were the only major vaccine developers to refuse federal money for research and development, yet...
Time: The History and Future of Everything
How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost...
Contrarian Take: Covid Vaccine & the End of Anti-Vaxxers
The modern Anti-Vaxxer movement of recent years traces its origins to a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by (then Dr.)...
Climate Insights 2020
Source: Resources for the Future From Resources From The Future: In 2020, people are more sure than ever about whether...
Where Covid Cases Are Rising Fastest
Daily cases per 100,000 people in past week Source: NYT Back in March 2020, Covid-19 cases were concentrated in high...
Pandemic Spiral
Ed Wong of the The Atlantic is one of the best science writers covering Covid-19 today. His consistently smart, insightful pieces are...
How Externalities Affect Systems
It took about a billion years for life – single cell organisms — to develop on planet earth. Another 500 million years led...
Covid Confirmed Cases & Deaths by Country
When any government (including USA) stops collecting and/or disseminating data, it is typically because it is not encouraging to the...
Covid Mortality Rates by Country
Source: Johns Hopkins University For the twenty countries currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide, the bars in the chart...
Is Your State Doing Enough Coronavirus Testing?
Is Your State Doing Enough Coronavirus Testing? Source: New York Times The number of daily coronavirus tests being...