AI continues to amaze — ChatGPT is now passing Wharton Business School exams, Microsoft and Google are doubling down in their AI efforts — and I’m as big a fan as anyone, but I want to talk about a technology that has been more under the radar, so to speak…

News flash from the culture wars: they’re coming to take our gas stoves! Well, actually, “they” are not, but the kind of people who got alarmed about it are a threat to our health, and to theirs. The gas stove furor started with a Bloomberg News interview that Richard Trumka…

The Sunday Times featured an op-ed by Mark Britnell, a professor at the UCL Global Business School for Health, with the headline Our creaking NHS can’t beat its admin chaos without a tech revolution. Substitute “U.S. healthcare system” for “NHS” and the headline still would work, as would most of…

Customers experiencing long, often inexplicable delays, their experiences turning from hopeful to angry to afraid they’ll never get back home. Staff overworked and overwhelmed. IT systems failing at the times they’re most needed. To most people, that all probably sounds like Southwest Airline’s debacle last week, but, to me, it…

I didn’t write about ChatGPT when it was first introduced a month ago because, well, it seemed like everyone else was. I didn’t play with it to see what it could do. I didn’t want it to write any poems. I didn’t have any AP tests I wanted it to…

Happy holidays, and hopefully everyone is safe, warm, and with family! Here is this week’s collection of some of the most interesting health, medicine, longevity and science articles that Tincture founder Jordan Shlain and former editor Kim Bellard thought you should see. This will be the last Takeaways. Tincture has…

A relative — obviously overestimating my healthcare expertise — asked my thoughts on The New York Times article Can a Federally Funded ‘Netflix Model’ Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics? I had previously skimmed the article and was vaguely aware of the Pasteur Act that it discusses, but, honestly, my…

Happy holidays! Here’s this week’s collection of some of the most interesting health, medicine, longevity and science articles that Tincture founder Jordan Shlain and former editor Kim Bellard thought you should see. Jordan’s Takeaways Cancer vaccines are close! Impressive results from “game-changing” mRNA skin cancer vaccine trial Cancer update! World-first…

I’m awfully tired of bad news. The U.S. health care system is flooded, again, with sick people: this time not just COVID, but also flu and RSV. Inflation remains high and we teeter on the edge of a recession. We talk about renewable energy but remain heavily dependent on oil…