COVID-19 can have long-term effects and so can other diseases. The time has come for us to accept that seemingly short-term diseases can have long-term consequences, and help millions of patients to attain more complete treatment and support.
The COVID-19 pandemic, war, geopolitical rivalry and a growing climate crisis have dominated the news, but very few things match the importance of the 17 sustainable development goals the UN has defined for the future of humanity. The goals can be achieved but only by calling into question the prevailing practices.
With increasing health care demands and capacity constraints, does private health care offer a better alternative to universal social insurance schemes? Or, does private health care simply put profits before patients? The authors dive deep to make sense of it all.
Some scientific explanations are so simple and universal they seem to defy logic. For example, vibrations explain almost everything about brains and bodies, in particular how “good pain” works. This article previews a talk for the Festival of Consciousness in Barcelona.
Conspiracy theories are providing simple solutions to complex phenomena, causing violence across Italy and threatening the country’s social and political fabric.
As with everything else in a culture dominated by economics, the real problem is that both realism and humility have become, if not impossible, then unadvisable, which is even worse.
A critical look at the topsy-turvy world of politics in the capital of the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The coming VR revolution, including much of the so-called metaverse, is mathematically guaranteed to create “simulator sickness.”
