Karen Hunt Just when you thought you’d heard the last of the Covid vaccines—those mRNA vaccines you’ve come to “know and love” as MIT so endearingly puts it— there’s a new version in town. Welcome to the next generation of self-amplifying Covid vaccines, also known as replicons. No, they aren’t “replicants” like in my favorite …
Karen Hunt This morning I read about a horse escaping on a Boeing 747 mid-flight. The plane was already 30 minutes into its flight to Belgium when its unusual cargo broke free of its constraints and that was it—complete chaos at 30,000 feet. “There’s no issue with flying,” the pilot could be heard saying, “but we need …
Karen Hunt On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris Administration Launched a National Dashboard to Track Heat-Related Illness: The Health and Human Services Department will oversee a national dashboard, called the EMS HeatTracker, that will include maps of emergency services across the country responding to calls about heat-related illness, NBC reported. The EMS HeatTracker will also collect multiple data points …
Karen Hunt In the opening scene of the original Blade Runner film, Leon, a Nexus-6 replicant is given a “Voight-Kampff Test” to determine whether or not he is human. The test is designed to provoke an emotional response. Emotions are read by scanning the iris, the colored part of your eye. The color of your …
Karen Hunt “…With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death.” Ronald Ross, written in August 1897, following his discovery of malaria parasites in anopheline mosquitoes If you’ve been reading the news lately, you know this has happened already. In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved releasing more than 2 …
Karen Hunt Our fearless leaders love war. They love talking about it. They love playing war games. They love fighting in actual wars. That’s because they always benefit from them—any kind of war. “We’re going fight this and win,” they say. “We’re all in this together,” they say. Except, whatever “this” is, what they really …
Karen Hunt I am not a number. I am a free man.” #6, The Prisoner In the 1960s TV show, The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan’s character is an unnamed British intelligence agent who resigns from his job for reasons never explained, is gassed, and wakes up imprisoned in a deceptively lovely place called The Village. He …
