UK coronavirus blame game

Inside Westminster’s coronavirus blame game: What went wrong with the UK government’s pandemic response and why? As an inquiry looms, the search for a scapegoat is on

Robots working to disinfect your office

Meet the robots working to disinfect your office: As companies aim to reopen amid the pandemic, keeping workers safe is every businesses' primary concern. Fetch Robotics, a 6-year-old logistics automation company, thinks that robots may be part of the solution.

Back to School?

Back to School? “No Thanks” Say Millions of New Homeschooling Parents: Many parents are balking at back-to-school, choosing instead to homeschool their children this fall.

Why Science Needs Skeptics

The COVID-19 Panic Shows Us Why Science Needs Skeptics: The dumpster fire of COVID predictions has shown exactly why it’s important to sustain and nurture skeptics, lest we blunder into scientific monoculture and groupthink. And yet the explosion of “cancel culture” intolerance of any opinion that doesn’t fit a shrinking “3 x 5 card” of right-think risks destroying the very tolerance and science that sustains our civilization.

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England

Why no-one can ever recover from COVID-19 in England – a statistical anomaly: it seems that PHE [Public Health England] regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not. PHE does not appear to consider how long ago the COVID test result was, nor whether the person has been successfully treated in hospital and discharged to the community. Anyone who has tested COVID positive but subsequently died at a later date of any cause will be included on the PHE COVID death figures.

Air conditioning and COVID-19

How much should you worry about air conditioning and COVID-19?: Air conditioners either spread COVID or not, right? But I spoke with three experts to answer that question, and it seems that the role of air conditioning in spreading COVID-19 really depends on two things: the environment you’re in, and what kind of air conditioning that building uses.

Is COVID-19 Changing Americans' Online Shopping Habits?

How Is COVID-19 Changing Americans' Online Shopping Habits? according to a recent RAND American Life Panel (ALP) survey of more than 2,000 Americans who were selected to represent all demographic groups, almost two-thirds of the respondents have not changed their online shopping habits since the pandemic began. About one-quarter are shopping online more, but 13 percent are actually shopping online less.