Archive - Understanding the unseen

H5N1 influenza: some troubling preliminary signals

A few data sources to keep an eye on

3 hrs ago •

A riddle about random gatherings

How unlikely events can produce a useful rule of thumb

Nov 26 •

What would you do to avoid norovirus?

And why the same caution doesn't seem to apply to other seasonal infections

Nov 18 •

Stop looking for an NPI miracle

Why underpowered trials hinder our ability to respond to future disease threats

Nov 15 •

Science social media is dead

Long live science social media?

Nov 11 •

Why we’re bad at understanding the strength of arguments we agree with

And why this can happen even with ‘rational’ calculations

Nov 7 •

The real revenge of The Tipping Point

How simple stories can give us a misguided view of contagion

Nov 4 •

September 2024

Exams won't tell us whether AI has reached 'peak intelligence'

Acing hard questions isn't the same as doing hard thinking

Sep 26 •

From echo chambers to extreme opinions

How can we get better at seeing a useful spectrum of views online?

Sep 23 •

Three vaccine quirks that aren’t what they seem

Why dynamic health problems can be so counter-intuitive

Sep 20 •

Understanding the online bad faith playbook

Sep 16 •

Three things we learned from 180,000 Premier League PCR tests

Converting control measures into scientific insights, from immunity to infection dynamics

Sep 9 •

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