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Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, October 26, 2014 Dr. Mary Bassett, the New York City Health Commissioner, is no nonsense. Back in August, Bassett and her team identified Bellevue Hospital Center as the hospital where they would funnel any patients in New York who...
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The Economist, October 25, 2014 An interactive map of the 2014 Ebola outbreak listing the number of infections and deaths, and highlighting where in the world there are widespread cases, limited cases, no recent cases and no cases. […read more]
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Anemona Hartocollis and Emma G. Fitzsimmons, The New York Times, October 25, 2014 A nurse who was being quarantined at a New Jersey hospital after working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone criticized her treatment on Saturday as an overreaction after an initial...
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Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, September 26, 2013 Creative history brims with embodied examples of why the secret of genius is doggedness rather than “god”-given talent. But it takes a brilliant scholar of the psychology of achievement to empirically...
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Marc Abrahams, Ted Talks, September 2014 As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world’s most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting) talk, he tells stories of truly weird science — and makes...
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Charles M. Sennott, GlobalPost, NBC News, October 24, 2014 After a year-long reporting effort by The GroundTruth Project, a clearer picture is emerging of a millennial generation facing an uncertain global economy. The team of 21 GroundTruth reporting...
