Anger over past, indifference meet queen’s death in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just hours before news of Queen Elizabeth II's death spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a fiery speech urging India to shed its colonial ties in a ceremony to rename a boulevard that once honored King George V. Rajpath, formerly called Kingsway, was a “symbol of slavery” under the British Raj, he said. Instead, under the newly named Kartavya Path that leads to the iconic India Gate, “a new history has been created,” Modi beamed. His speech last Thursday was t...
Anger over past, indifference meet queen’s death in India
NEW DELHI (AP) — Just hours before news of Queen Elizabeth II's death spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a fiery speech urging India to shed its colonial ties in a ceremony to rename a boulevard that once honored King George V. Rajpath, formerly called Kingsway, was a “symbol of slavery” under the British Raj, he said. Instead, under the newly named Kartavya Path that leads to the iconic India Gate, “a new history has been created,” Modi beamed. His speech last Thursday was t...
Bio Eats World: The Trials of Clinical Trials
On the path from scientific discovery to new drug, the clinical trial is a huge — and critical — hurdle. Clinical trials are themselves experiments, and to make sure that they are doing the best possible job at determining the safety and efficacy of the new drug, we need to be able to do experiments on those experiments. But how do you do that in such a highly regulated space? Host Lauren Richardson talks to James Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, and...
Bio Eats World: The Trials of Clinical Trials
On the path from scientific discovery to new drug, the clinical trial is a huge — and critical — hurdle. Clinical trials are themselves experiments, and to make sure that they are doing the best possible job at determining the safety and efficacy of the new drug, we need to be able to do experiments on those experiments. But how do you do that in such a highly regulated space? Host Lauren Richardson talks to James Zou, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, and...
Disruption at Work: It’s More than just WFH
*The following tweetstorm has been lightly copy edited and formatted. It can be seen in its original form here. * Debates over work from home vs hybrid vs HQ are becoming increasingly polarized (duh). It seems either one gets it, or not, with little room to disagree. There’s a reason for this, and it is rooted in how disruptive forces take hold. A long . 2/ Change in work is part of broader change which is _disruption_ of how companies operate. The structure and design of corporations are roo...
Disruption at Work: It’s More than just WFH
*The following tweetstorm has been lightly copy edited and formatted. It can be seen in its original form here. * Debates over work from home vs hybrid vs HQ are becoming increasingly polarized (duh). It seems either one gets it, or not, with little room to disagree. There’s a reason for this, and it is rooted in how disruptive forces take hold. A long . 2/ Change in work is part of broader change which is _disruption_ of how companies operate. The structure and design of corporations are roo...
