How will we | Work | Shop | Eat | Travel | Care | after the pandemic? The world is slowly coming out from under the thumb of COVID-19. Each country is at different stages, depending on their access to vaccines, the efficiency of their roll-out, the prevalence of Variants of Concern and the effective application of public health measures. …

During this first quarter of 2021, I have had fantastic conversations on the @Risk podcast with a diverse group of experts and thought leaders on topics stretching from racism to whistleblowing. Each guest shares fascinating factoids, insights garnered from decades of research and reflection, as well as a personal anecdote…

The pandemic may be viewed as a battle between efficiencies: humanity’s ability to allocate our rich resources versus the virus’ transmissibility. Can we allocate everything from supplies to health human resources to scientific discoveries faster and more effectively than the virus can continue to find targets and claim lives. The…

Here we are. We’ve said good-bye to 2020 and we are easing into 2021 with beleaguered optimism. At the end of the 2020, I had the privilege of speaking with STAT News’ infectious diseases and global health reporter, Helen Branswell, on the @Risk podcast about the last mile we are…

Writing for the New Yorker, Jill Lepore tells us that “[e]very plague novel is a parable” told through stories set within the walls of a quarantine and set among a ragged band of survivors. If you read enough plague novels, the common elements of their storylines that serve up the…

Given the importance of journalism to a well functioning democracy, there are many opinions on the fix to its significant challenges. While journalism has seen an increase in the attention being paid by citizens during the pandemic and its need could not be better demonstrated during these dynamic and dangerous…

Art, 9/11 and the U.S. Election — In discussion with internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor, Eric Fischl, he shared that the worst thing for an artist is to be misunderstood. Art has forever been a risky endeavour because the artist can never control how the audience reacts to their work. Fischl understands this profoundly. He is…

“My head was a magpie’s nest lined with such bright scraps of information.” That’s how the narrator of Alice Munro’s short story “Some Women” in her collection of short stories, Too Much Happiness, describes her thirteen year old self’s mind. She says this shortly after breaking into a conversation with…

Risk is all of our business and we make decisions about it every day but not all risk decisions are created equal. There are some decisions that really bring risk home and set off sirens, particularly when they involve kids. On the @risk podcast, I spoke with four parents about…