Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.

Experts analyze why Covid severity has declined, who still benefits from booster shots, and if a once-feared virus is now more like plain old colds or flu.

Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

Official website of author Karen E. Bender

Brainstorm - Richard Scolyer

Seven years after his explosive HBO doc, Dan Reed watches Hollywood cash in on a man he calls 'worse than Jeffrey Epstein.'

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?

Woke 2 is Woke 1 with an honest relation to power.

<strong>Exclusive: </strong>The strange and lonely death of Bikram Lama exposes a glaring gap in homelessness services. What hopes and dreams brought him to Australia, and what went wrong?

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

Criticism of public schools is not entirely wrong – but by ignoring unequal conditions, it misdiagnoses the problem and misplaces responsibility.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Talkspace has amassed “one of the largest mental health data banks in the world,” according to reports to investors, containing 140 million message exchanges.

Artemis II astronauts updated the iconic 1968 image during their 2026 loop around the Moon.