Dwindling ranks and declining public trust plague police agencies amid summer of protests ~life work Article 1805 words 8 votes
Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy ~design architecture Article 404 words 8 votes
How to think like an epidemiologist ~science statistics Article 2341 words, published Aug 4 2020 6 votes
The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects ~design architecture Link 11 votes
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%. ~tech privacy Article 2533 words 31 votes
Architecture studio Cobe and engineering firm Arup have designed the Orienktaj and Nordhavn Metro stations as part of a docklands development in Copenhagen ~transport Article 746 words, published Jun 15 2020 5 votes
Into the fog: How Britain lost track of the coronavirus ~health healthcare Article 5129 words 6 votes
London Tube map made from a working circuit board ~transport Article 412 words, published Jun 23 2020 8 votes
The Boston Public Library needs help transcribing anti-slavery letters ~books libraries.public Article 248 words, published Jun 17 2020 5 votes
Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns ~health Article 499 words 9 votes
Seattle’s coronavirus surveillance program resumes after being shut down by the FDA ~health Article 532 words 7 votes
Black Lives Matter protesters aren’t being tracked with Covid-19 surveillance tech. Not yet ~tech privacy Article 863 words 6 votes
France eases some pandemic restrictions and will reopen restaurants, bars and parks ~health Article 445 words 6 votes
The Black American amputation epidemic ~health healthcare Article 7462 words, published May 19 2020 7 votes
Denmark embraces live music drive-ins – musicians are finding new ways to reach their fans safely ~music Article 7 votes
WHO warns millions of children at risk as Covid-19 pandemic disrupts routine vaccinations ~health Article 492 words 7 votes
Finland has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the number of smokers without seeing a surge in e-cigarette users ~health Article 801 words, published May 4 2020 7 votes
Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps ~health Article 859 words 8 votes
Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain ~health healthcare Article 854 words 8 votes
Straight talk from ex-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the long slog ahead ~health Article 4448 words 5 votes
What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus ~health Article 216 words 8 votes
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong. ~health Article 2259 words 5 votes
An entire city (Noida, India) has been told to download a controversial contact tracing app — Or face jail: "Not installing the app will be considered a violation of lockdown orders," police say ~health Article 9 votes
COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means? ~health Article 1572 words 5 votes
“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response ~health Article 2203 words 7 votes
What happens next? COVID-19 futures, explained with playable simulations ~health Article 4482 words 6 votes
Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners ~transport Article 12 votes
‘Closing borders is ridiculous’: The epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy ~health Article 1233 words 10 votes
How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process) ~health Article 1693 words, published Feb 12 2015 11 votes
A disaster waiting to happen or a bold, evidence-based response? In Sweden, it depends who you ask ~health Article 1057 words 6 votes
Sweden counts coronavirus deaths in care homes but many countries do not – medical officials said a third of deaths recorded last week came from nursing home residents ~health Link 5 votes
America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
Norway's largest mobile operator, Telenor, is collaborating with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health to help them track the spread of the coronavirus ~health Article 96 words 6 votes
Why I’m not making COVID19 visualizations, and why you (probably) shouldn’t either ~health Article 2370 words, published Mar 31 2020 4 votes
For several thousand years the moose have walked the same path to get to the rich pastures of summer – follow the walk live ~tv Link 5 votes
Novelist Arundhati Roy on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next ~health Article 2892 words, published Apr 3 2020 5 votes