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What Happened When Canada Gave Citizens the Right to Die - The Atlantic (No paywall)
 Nine years after Canada legalized assisted death—known formally as Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID—doctors are struggling to keep up with demand, Elaina Plott Calabro reports in a feature for our September issue. Clinicians are also reckoning with a philosophical question that gets more and more complicated as new types of MAID requests emerge: “If autonomy in death is sacrosanct, is there anyone who shouldn’t be helped to die?”
“This is the story of an ideology in motion, of what happens when a nation enshrines a right before reckoning with the totality of its logic,” Elaina writes. I spoke with her about how doctors are dealing with this new form of ethical responsibility, and why demand for MAID in Canada has far outpaced all predictions.
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WorkWorkWorkWhy Hasnt Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? - The New Yorker (No paywall).jpg) Two decades ago, I was leaving my morning clinic at the hospital where I work when I suddenly felt an excruciating pain in my head. It was as if my skull were exploding while simultaneously being gripped in a vise that was getting tighter and tighter. I became nauseated and dizzy, and made my way unsteadily to the emergency room. I was in my early fifties, and my first thought was that this could be a burst aneurysm, known to some physicians as the worst headache of your life. To my relief, a CAT scan showed no sign of bleeding in the brain; then came the bad news. A neurologist arrived, examined me, and said he thought that I was suffering from a migraine. I had never had one before, but his diagnosis turned out to be correct, and, since that time, migraines have been an indelible feature of my life. Their frequency and severity have varied over the years, but once you become a migraineur, as doctors sometimes call us, you are always wondering when your next attack will be, planning how you might strategize around it, scrutinizing your life for possible triggers, and looking for some new treatment that might curb the agony. Work WorkWorkWorkMedicine's AI era urgently demands new doctor-patient relationship - STAT (No paywall) Some time ago, I discovered an online calculator meant to help heart surgeons determine patients chances of complications or death. Surprisingly, the calculator, based on published studies, is not password-protected. A patient willing to wade through a thicket of technical terms could use the information in their electronic health record to manually fill in the needed numbers and discover their surgical risk. Work WorkWhat Happens After Someone Is Arrested by ICE? - The New Yorker (No paywall) The New Yorker staff writer Jonathan Blitzer joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Donald Trumps second-term immigration agenda has shifted from border enforcement to an unprecedented campaign of interior deportations. They talk about the expansion of detention through military bases and state-run facilities, the changes to long-standing arrest protocols, and the strategic transfers designed to separate detainees from their families and lawyers. Plus, they examine how these tactics have eroded due-process protections, why Democrats have struggled to mount an effective response, and whether public outrage could slow the Administrations most aggressive deportation measures. WorkWorkThese Spiders Take a Horrifying New Approach to Mealtime - Scientific American (No paywall) You dont always need a book or movie for a good horror story. Sometimes, if you dare look closely enough, you can find one in your own backyard. Researchers have just confirmed the inner workings of a brutal food-prep technique some spiders use: wrapping their web-snagged prey tightly in silk strands, then puking up toxic digestive fluids to soak the entire package to marinate their meal alive. Work WorkWorkWorkWork
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WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWhite House to Review Smithsonian Exhibitions The White House said on Tuesday that it will launch a sweeping review of exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution to ensure alignment with the Presidents directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions. WorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkLondon museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war Ten years ago, to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, there was a focus on capturing the stories of surviving African soldiers. Documentaries detailed some of their experiences, including being treated like “slaves” by the British, and more positive encounters with African American soldiers who arrived after the Japanese surrendered. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkRising electric bills: How states are tackling Big Tech's energy demands Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. It's not clear that any state has a solution and the actual effect of data centers on electricity bills is difficult to pin down. Some critics question whether states have the spine to take a hard line against tech behemoths. Charlotte Shuff of the Oregon Citizens' Utility Board, a consumer advocacy group, says there's a massive outcry over rising power bills. Some data centers require more electricity than cities or states. That's pushing policymakers to rethink how transmission costs are spread among consumers. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe road to artificial general intelligence - MIT Technology Review (No paywall) Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can todays AI revolution produce models that rival or surpass human intelligence across all domains? If so, what underlying enablerswhether hardware, software, or the orchestration of bothwould be needed to power them? |
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