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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz |Gideon M-K
It has finally happened. After a decade of avoiding the show, my wife and I decided that we would try out the new season of Married at First Sight. We consume quite a bit of reality TV, so it’s not that we avoided it precisely, but something about the idea of watching people struggle to build a healthy relationship amid a storm of cameras and manufactured drama just never drew us in. At least until we watched Love at First Sight and realised it was actually kind of fun.
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1 month ago | 
slate.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Medical Examiner Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Measles is back. After the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, it was easy to feel like it was gone for good. But “eliminated” means there was no ongoing local spread.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Measles is back. After the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, it was easy to feel like it was gone for good. But “eliminated” means there was no ongoing local spread.
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1 month ago | 
slate.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Medical Examiner Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. One of my favorite sayings is that there are no silver bullets in medicine. If someone claims that a single treatment can cure everything from cancer to shingles, it’s basically always a scam and they just want your money.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
slate.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Science Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Fluoride is one of the most interesting stories of public health improvement. It all began over 100 years ago, with two simple observations: 1) that lots of people in some areas of the world had weird marks on their teeth, and 2) that somehow they never seemed to lose them to decay.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
slate.com | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. People love giving advice about how to get healthy. There is, especially this time of year, no shortage of attractive people with six-pack abs who will happily tell you the best way to improve your well-being. The problem, of course, is that they all contradict one another. You have to do keto but also be vegan. Cardio is important—but resistance training is where it’s at.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
theafricanmirror.africa | Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz |Matthew Jane
AS governments worldwide move to restrict teenagers’ access to smartphones and social media, a fierce scientific debate has erupted over whether these digital technologies actually harm young people’s mental health. The controversy, sparked by an influential recent book blaming phones for rising youth anxiety, has exposed deep uncertainties in the research evidence – even as policymakers from Arkansas to Australia forge ahead with sweeping bans and restrictions.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Tom Williams |Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
A New Zealand retail crime reporting and surveillance platform currently under investigation by Australia’s Information Commissioner has raised NZ $82 million (A$74.3m) in a Series C. The raise for Auror was co-led by the Woolworths-backed retail venture fund W23 Global, Nasdaq-listed US taser and body camera manufacturer Axon Enterprise, and Westpac-supported Reinventure. Also chipping in were Kiwi VCs Movac, GD1, K1W1, New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) and Sydney’s Folklore Ventures.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Tom Williams |Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Just before the end of FY2024, my wife and I went for test drives in electric vehicles to replace the 10-year-old SUV we’d used to ferry two kids to schools, sports and holidays, often with friends and/or dog in the back. We planned to downsize and go electric.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Harrison Polites |Tom Williams |Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) is hoping to address the industry’s “women problem” by launching a certification framework for the sector to address equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) amid lingering tension over the organisation’s response to former board member Richard White. The TCA is gathering in Melbourne this week for the three-day National Tech Summit, “an inclusive and exciting vision for Australia’s tech future”.
