America grapples with millions of people with organ transplants who need extra Covid vaccination

America grapples with millions of people with organ transplants who need extra Covid vaccination

Covid vaccination in the US has been framed as a binary: People either seek out the inoculation, or they distrust the formula or the politics that produced it and reject the shot. People who accept the vaccine get to return to normal life. For the people who don’t, “Your health...

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Global Y-chromosome database solve sex crimes, problem is in obtaining informed consent

Global Y-chromosome database solve sex crimes, problem is in obtaining informed consent

In May 1999, a disturbing crime shocked the inhabitants of Kollum, a small village in the Netherlands. A local 16-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in a field nearby, and some people said that Iraqi or Afghan residents at an asylum seekers’ centre in the village could be to...

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National loyalty: Real America has always been a country of white people

National loyalty: Real America has always been a country of white people

As a national narrative, Smart America has a tenuous sense of the nation. Smart America doesn’t hate America, which has been so good to the meritocrats. Smart Americans believe in institutions and they support American leadership of military alliances and international organisations. But Smart Americans are uneasy with patriotism. It’s...

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PhD holders, researchers want reforms in their fields addressed to rein in wastage

PhD holders, researchers want reforms in their fields addressed to rein in wastage

Nations, universities and research institutions around the world must redouble efforts to expand training for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to prepare them for jobs outside academia. So urges a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental coalition of 38 nations. The report, the result...

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In Smart America, new economy replaced ‘outmoded ideologies’ with dazzling technologies

In Smart America, new economy replaced ‘outmoded ideologies’ with dazzling technologies

Winners in Smart America have lost the capacity and the need for a national identity, which is why they can’t grasp its importance for others. Politically, Smart America came to be associated with the Democratic Party. This was not inevitable. If the party had refused to accept the closing of...

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Zoom distance: Researchers estimate physical signals make up 70 per cent of conversation

Zoom distance: Researchers estimate physical signals make up 70 per cent of conversation

Travel often demarcates an experience, focusing attention and solidifying work-life boundaries –whether it’s a flight to a conference or a daily commute to the office. As the online world has sliced those rituals away, people have experimented with “fake commutes” (a walk around the house or block) to trick themselves...

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Online conferencing cuts cost, but weaned of thrill of in-person connection

Online conferencing cuts cost, but weaned of thrill of in-person connection

The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world, but shifting both the tech and our expectations might make it a better one. I am sitting in a darkened room, listening to upbeat music of the type often used at...

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Vaccinating adults has double benefit of protecting children against Covid

Vaccinating adults has double benefit of protecting children against Covid

Unvaccinated children seem to be reaping the benefits of mass Covid-19 vaccination programmes in many parts of the world. Infections in children have fallen as adults get their shots. But experts disagree on whether this means that unvaccinated children are unlikely to become a ‘reservoir’ for infection – and a...

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Prince Harry and Meghan warned about support in US as they sink ‘beyond redemption’ in UK

Prince Harry and Meghan warned about support in US as they sink ‘beyond redemption’ in UK

Former US Anglo-American advisor and senior fellow of the Bow Group think-tank Lee Cohen has told Express.co.uk the tide was turning on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the US despite initial positivity and welcomeness. Mr Cohen explained that, while the royal couple may be “beyond redemption” in the UK,...

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Free America always had an insurgent mindset, breaking institutions down, not building them up

Free America always had an insurgent mindset, breaking institutions down, not building them up

The government, which did so little for ordinary Americans, was still the enemy, along with “governing elites.” But for the sinking working class, freedom lost whatever economic meaning it had once had. It was a matter of personal dignity, identity. Members of this class began to see trespassers everywhere and...

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