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Christian Yates, The Conversation
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Absolute vs relative risk: AstraZeneca faces case in the UK for ‘inflating’ vaccine efficacy
A man who suffered a severe brain injury after receiving the shot in April 2021 has sued the pharmaceutical company.
Christian Yates, The Conversation
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Antibody tests with over 90% accuracy seem like game changers – until you do the math
In populations with low disease spread, false positives can outnumber true positives.
Christian Yates, The Conversation
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Have we been calculating dog years all wrong this whole time?
A study suggests that it makes more sense to look at your pets’ developmental milestones than to co-relate their lifespan with human years.
Christian Yates, The Conversation
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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How the brain’s clock speeds up around middle age can determine future health and dementia
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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Maths is our secret weapon in the fight against disease
Biologists have only really started to use maths in the last few decades.
Christian Yates, The Conversation
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How many locusts does it take to start a biblical plague? Just three
They are creepy and destructive little cannibals, so can mathematics help us avoid the next big locust plague?
Christian Yates, The Conversation