Liu Zheng Zheng of the Harvard Business Review China, based in Beijing, contributed to this report Judging by the forums and private Facebook groups we follow, the most terrifying feature of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak so far has been the Chinese government’s aggressive response — whole cities and tens of millions on sudden lockdown in
Our deep dive into the epidemiological models for the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has brought to light a serious and important mismatch between the public messaging by the World Health Organization and US public health authorities, and the models they’re using internally to make projections about the course of the disease. The incubation period and latent
With the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic still spreading throughout China and to an increasing number of countries around the world, epidemiologists are racing against time to simulate the progress of the disease’s spread. These simulations will not only yield more accurate predictions of future events, but they’ll give helpful guidance to public health authorities on how
Since we published our initial overview of the Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic, there have been a number of new developments, many of them concerning. Key developments: We’ve learned that the virus originated in bats, has transmitted from human to human in Vietnam, and that the CDC is evaluating dozens of potential cases in the United States.
Recent widespread rumors that the Wuhan coronavirus is an escaped bioweapon are irresponsible alarmism unsupported by the underlying facts. While blowback from bioweapon development leading to disease outbreaks is a staple of plague fiction, from 1971’s The Andromeda Strain, to 1995’s Outbreak, to the recent Planet of the Apes films, it’s extremely unlikely that is
Liu Zheng Zheng of the Harvard Business Review China, based in Beijing, contributed to this report Last updated: 01-27-2020 at 3:00 pm ET A previously undiscovered respiratory virus originating in Wuhan, Hubei province, China has given rise to a rapidly growing, headline-grabbing viral epidemic that’s now spreading across the world as we all watch the
Mastersmith Daniel Winkler is showing off a prototype of an upcoming survival knife that’s a twist on the old “hollow-handled Rambo knife” idea from the 80’s. Instead of a hollow tube for a handle, with the knife blade screwed onto it — a weak design that we recommend everyone stay far away from — Winkler
UCO is best known for its fire-starting products — their matches dominated our big match review — but the company also makes a number of outdoor-oriented lighting products. New from the company for 2020 is the Sprout+, small, lightweight lantern that I’m really excited about as a top compact contender for our long-planned lantern review.
This is my sixth year at SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and this is the first time I’ve seen an entirely new product category crop up, here: the hunting e-bike. These new additions to the show floor are ultra-tough mountain bikes with lithium-powered electronic motors — 750W or 1000W — that use microprocessors and
On Tuesday at SHOT Show in Las Vegas, I stopped by the AR500 booth to find a Boba Fett-looking guy in full kit. This was one of those things I’d seen online, but seeing it up-close was even more impressive. When the AR500 rep asked me if I wanted to try on some of the
A collection of key developments in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus (nCoV-2019), updated throughout the week for those who just want the signal and not the noise. If there’s something you think we should include, sound off in the comments thread attached to each week’s post. Saturday, January 25 [10:53 pm] The latest clinical
We’ve had our eye on a brand new, previously-unknown-to-medicine respiratory virus since we put it in our news roundup on Monday. The situation has evolved quite a bit since then, so here are the latest developments: The disease, a coronavirus that is spread through the air, is being called Wuhan Pneumonia, after the area of
If you want to see first-hand how America could conceivably slip back into the kind of political violence we saw in the 1970’s, then you should take a look at what’s currently unfolding in Virginia. It’s one of the best case studies in recent years of how social-media-fueled rumors, changing demographics, the growing urban/rural divide,
This recent BBC feature on “black sky events” — a total grid-down in a large area, like a city or even a country — is worth reading in full if you want to better understand what living through a large-scale blackout looks like. While the term “black sky” events illustrates perhaps the most visible impact
Of all the carbon sequestration technologies available to us for taking greenhouse gasses back out of the atmosphere, the best by a mile are trees. Forests are nature’s carbon sinks, and instead of trying to improve on them with something man-made, savvy inventors have turned their technological know-how to cooking up new ways to reforest
