by editor | Apr 2, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Erik Sass TES Editor Some things never change, although they can certainly take on frightening new forms. Venezuela is a perfect example. As the country which used to be one of South America’s richest enters the final stages of socialist collapse, collectivist...
by editor | Apr 2, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Erik Sass TES Editor One of the more confounding mysteries of U.S. public health regulation in recent years has been the crackdown on new forms of nicotine delivery, including e-cigarettes and vaping. On the face of it these new technologies, though still bad...
by editor | Apr 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
Writing for Bloomberg, Leonid Bershidsky applauds the European Parliament’s new rules restricting commercial use of plastics — forks, straws, coffee stirrers, balloon sticks and the like — but argues they won’t go far enough to have a...
by editor | Apr 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
An alarming editorial in The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows how outbreaks spread when social bonds become frayed. Measles increased in 98 countries last year, with 229,000 cases reported. It’s a worsening global health crisis, even though measles can be...
by editor | Apr 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
In Devex, Michael Reid makes an optimistic argument that new technology will finally help end the global epidemic of tuberculosis—an airborne infection that kills the most people of any germ. 3.6 million people go without TB treatment each year, mostly due to...
by editor | Apr 1, 2019 | Top Page Links
Internet god and would-be humanoid statesman Mark Zuckerberg took to the Washington Post’s op-ed page to unveil some exciting new rules that should govern our sense of self worth and hasten our evolution into politically reflexive, image-obsessed automatons. ...
