It wasn’t until Eve ate the apple proffered by the snake in the Garden of Eden that she became ashamed of her nakedness. But a couple of recent decisions by Apple have made me wonder whether their censors are the real snakes. The screen shot above shows a small corner of Filth Fair, a new, [...]
A discussion with an interesting group of students at Tulane in New Orleans on Thursday made me think (not just about how they pass of the acronym SPH as standing for School of Public Health, when clearly it really stands for Socialising, Partying and Happening). We were wrestling with that endless question: how do you [...]
Wiping out diseases: it’s a seductive goal. And like many of the best serial seducers, it’s ultimately hard to pin down. The eradication fashion item for this season is polio, the Lothario sporting it is Bill Gates. Mr. Gates says we can eradicate polio in two years; that just a fifth of the time that [...]
