Delusions of immortality
In Why We Die, Venki Ramakrishnan demolishes the crackpots and billionaires behind the anti-ageing industry.
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Anjana Ahuja
Anjana Ahuja is a science journalist and contributing writer for the Financial Times.
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How to stop a pandemic
Our leaders must learn from the Covid-19 crisis to prepare for the next virus.
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Even if an effective vaccine does emerge, its value as a tool for reopening economies will trigger squabbles over…
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Boris Johnson’s Covid-19 threat alert system is a parody of mathematical precision
The government uses “number theatre” to distract from the lack of clear guidance.
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Adam Kucharski’s The Rules of Contagion shows the parallels between epidemics, recessions and fake news
Cracking down hard on online misinformation and disinformation is equivalent to vaccination.
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The pseudoscience of hate
Genetics does not recognise race as a biologically meaningful concept, but that doesn’t stop racists invoking its findings.
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When the human tide ebbs
Global population boom may now be turning to population bust. The consequences, for better or worse, will shape our…
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Reasons to be cheerless: all the ways in which humanity might soon be obliterated
Remarkably, Martin Rees’s extended menu of our potential fates does not feel as depressing as it ought to.
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