Harm Reduction

For a large part, our schools have been closed for just over a year. Initially, the CDC recommended six feet of social distancing to reopen.

Science is an ongoing process where new discoveries change old theories.  For example, when I was in school, we learned that atoms were the building blocks of matter, and atoms could only be broken down into three smaller particles: elec

Mr. Gutierrez was allegedly exposed to COVID-19 by an infected co-worker who was working close by. But he was only made aware of her diagnosis when he was sent home from work several days later.

The images are taken from an article found in this week’s, The Conversation by Jason Qu

“In 1965, two Norwegian social scientists, Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge made a fascinating observation: What counts as "news" depends very much on the frequency with which we pay attention.

Race may once, long ago, been a stand-in for some perceived biological quality, but as the Human Genome project pointed out almost a decade ago, race is not a biological property; it has no genetic code.

The article, Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence Of Cancer discusses a complaint fi

Amazon, like the aforementioned social media, is driven by algorithms. For social media, algorithms are optimized to keep you on the website, presumably absorbing the advertising along with pictures, articles, and arguments.

The question of the “best” vaccine came up during our group meeting the other day. I have also gotten the question from friends. Here is my best answer. Efficacy of vaccines

    The data set continues to be drawn from Our World in Data and is based on CDC statistics for the US.