Tag: face masks
Google’s Relationship With Facts Is Getting Wobblier
There is no easy way to explain the sum of Google’s knowledge. It is ever-expanding. Endless. A growing web of hundreds of billions of websites, more data than even 100,000 of the most expensive iPhones mashed together could possibly store. But right now, I can say this: Google is confused about whether there’s an African country beginning with the letter k.
I’ve asked the search engine to name it. “What is an African country beginning with K?” In response,
Meet the 2023 Skin-Care Winners of Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards
Lava lamps. Jelly sandals. Charcuterie boards. In a world full of fleeting fads and passing trends, it’s a comfort to know that soft, supple, glowing skin will always be in style. But trying to achieve it has never been a straightforward proposition. Too often we’re distracted by buzzy ingredients and internet-famous products that amount to little more than a flash in the pan. Like a scene from Great Expectations, our medicine cabinet is filled with half-empty jars and abandoned bottles
Meet the 2023 Skin-Care Winners of Allure’s Best of Beauty Awards
Lava lamps. Jelly sandals. Charcuterie boards. In a world full of fleeting fads and passing trends, it’s a comfort to know that soft, supple, glowing skin will always be in style. But trying to achieve it has never been a straightforward proposition. Too often we’re distracted by buzzy ingredients and internet-famous products that amount to little more than a flash in the pan. Like a scene from Great Expectations, our medicine cabinet is filled with half-empty jars and abandoned bottles
What Stanford Law’s DEI Dean Got Wrong
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Question of the Week
I was overwhelmed by your responses to last week’s question on cars! So for now, I’m going to hold off on a new question and promise to send out your excellent thoughts in the next newsletter.
Why the lab-leak and mask debates are such a disaster
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In the past few weeks, the conventional wisdom about COVID seems to have been upended.
Early in the pandemic, several mainstream news outlets dismissed theories that COVID came from a Chinese lab. But recently The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that the Department of
What Is America’s COVID Goal Now?
We know how this ends: The coronavirus becomes endemic, and we live with it forever. But what we don’t know—and what the U.S. seems to have no coherent plan for—is how we are supposed to get there. We’ve avoided the hard questions whose answers will determine what life looks like in the next weeks, months, and years: How do we manage the transition to endemicity? When are restrictions lifted? And what long-term measures do we keep, if any, when we