The Non-fiction Feature: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine;
The Fiction Spot: The Jungle;
The Product Spot: Winix Air Purifier.
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Winix Air Purifier
Breathe again, without allergens, with this air purifier.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
How Joseph Lister and his use of antiseptics revolutionized the frightening state of 19th-century medicine.
The Jungle
One of the most impactful novels in US history—its descriptions of the meatpacking industry’s disgusting sanitary conditions resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.
It’s Probably Penny
A short primer on the basics of probability, for young children.
The Weekly Bulletin: January 6, 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t
The Children’s Spot: It’s Probably Penny
The Product Spot: Risk – a strategy board game
Risk – a strategy board game
A classic probabilistic game with dashes of human interaction throughout.
The Weekly Bulletin: December 23, 2021 | Holiday Quotes Edition
A special holiday edition: a compilation of some favorite quotes that have been held close to soul for many years.
The New Jim Crow
How did this come to be in colorblind America: the mass incarceration and social immobilization of so many of its minorities?