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Would you get a COVID vaccine that’s less effective than other ones?

Good afternoon, readers. I’d like to use today’s column to pose a question I’ve asked many of my own friends and colleagues: Would you be willing to get a COVID vaccine that’s less effective but perhaps more convenient to receive? One week ago, Johnson & Johnson unveiled results from a global trial finding that its […]

How a data scientist beat the polls by nailing the Georgia senate race

The week of the Georgia senatorial elections, I’ve been following the forecasts by Northwestern University data scientist Tom Miller, who bested most of the polls in the presidential race by missing the margin of Joe Biden’s victory by just 12 electoral college votes. In fact, Miller’s only major wrong call was forecasting a Trump win […]

Lockdown, superspreader, unprecedented: 2020 Has Significantly changed the English language, Such as Great

Last year it had been “climate crisis. ” The former year, it had been “hazardous. ” However, for 2020, the U.K.’s Oxford University Press (OUP) couldn’t come up with a single authoritative “term of this calendar year ”. Rather, the venerable publication of the Oxford English Dictionary has selected to signify 2020’s decade-crammed-into-one-year character by […]