Cohen to GOP lawmakers: "I did the same thing that you're doing now. For ten years. I protected Mr. Trump for ten years." His warning to them: "The more people that follow Mr. Trump — as I did blindly — are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering." pic.twitter.com/vGXvGMXWxC
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 27, 2019
should we be more trusting, or more sceptical? Onora O’Neill, whose 2002 Reith Lectures were on the subject of “trust”, sharpens the question — as we might hope a philosopher would. Rather than trying to measure or increase some vague measure of “trust”, she says, we should be aiming for a better ability to trust what is trustworthy and to mistrust what is not.
Tim Harford, ‘“Blue Monday” pseudoscience should teach us to be more curious’
[…] de boodschap is dat ook een man die dacht nooit meer enig geluk te kunnen voelen, door die heftige crisis heen kwam, en nu rustig hele lijsten kon opstellen van wat hem blij heeft gemaakt sindsdien. […]
Back in the 1960s, the U.S. started vaccinating kids for measles. As expected, children stopped getting measles.
But something else happened.
Childhood deaths from all infectious diseases plummeted. Even deaths from diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea were cut by half. […]
‘Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine’
[…] biedt via interviews een overzicht op wat er momenteel speelt in het wereldje van het sportieve fietsen. Dus daar hoort dan een ontwikkeling bij als Strava; een sociaal netwerk waarop sportievelingen hun ritten plaatsen, die via GPS zijn vastgelegd. En bij Strava horen dan ranglijstjes, van wie het snelst was over een bepaald stuk weg, en tegenwoordig ook opdrachten waarmee dan denkbeeldige digitale bekers zijn te verdienen.
Alsof het fietsen zelve de beloning niet zijn mag. […]
Part of the failure to see the risks in traditionally female-dominated industries is because often these jobs are an extension of what women do in the home (although at a more onerous scale). But the data gap when it comes to women in the workplace doesn’t only arise in female-dominated industries.
Caroline Criado-Perez, ‘The deadly truth about a world built for men
– from stab vests to car crashes’
Sport quite rightly boycotted South Africa during the apartheid years, refusing to legitimise its morally bankrupt rulers. Now, we see World Tour bike racing in Qatar, Dubai, Oman and Abu Dhabi, all places with repressive, undemocratic regimes where torture and “forced disappearances” are commo
