1. An unlikely superpower
A personal tragedy leads to an curious discovery: Invisibilia tells the incredible story of a woman who can smell alzheimer’s and other diseases medicine never knew come with a distinctive smell. A superpower that comes with a tricky ethical question: How do you deal with the fact that you might know that some random person you just met is dying and she doesn’t know it? Listen to it now.
2. In praise of doubt: we should be less sure about everything. Right?
Here’s a rule of thumb I use when evaluating information from a field I know little about: Trust the people who doubt. The Correspondent’s «Numeracy correspondent» wrote a beautiful ode to doubting and explains why people who doubt tend to make better decisions. Read it now.
3. The Dudes Who Won’t Wear Masks
It has been driving me crazy that almost no one in Switzerland is wearing masks in public, not even in crowded trains and shops. I find it puzzling that people apparently can’t be convinced otherwise. Harv…