Good news of the day

We’ve not yet tested it on every type of cancer, but it’s more successful than chemo and it’s much more easily tolerated by the patient. In a trial of more than 350 patients, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% treated with the immunotherapy...

Yahooligans at work

First thought was this was going to unwarranted “old boys network” gripes. Does not appear that way. “When Savitt began at Yahoo the top managers reporting to her … including the chief editors of the verticals and magazines, were less than 20 percent...

How fascism starts

For decades, ever since a scandal in the 1980s in which Switzerland’s government was revealed to have been spying on tens of thousands of its citizens, the Swiss have been sceptical about state surveillance. CCTV cameras are rare; even Google Street View is...

A little Saturday night terror

The NY Times rightly calls Donald Trump the worst presidential candidate in modern history. Personally, I think he’s an existential threat to the country, something I’ve never thought about another candidate. If you’re like-minded, you should be...