Meta is trying hard to saturate the VR headset market with their sell-at-cost Quest lineup. In doing so, they are positioning themselves as the gatekeepers of the metaverse, a virtual space that’s evolving from and with the internet. Meta doesn’t own the metaverse. Said more clearly, Facebook doesn’t own the metaverse. …

Without a completed safety study or expert committee review, the FDA issued a supplemental Biologics License Application (“sBLA”) approval letter granting full FDA approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COMIRNATY® COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for use in children ages 12-15. This was done even though safety study completion, on which approval should be based, …

I. I graduated from Stanford on Sunday, but it almost didn’t happen. In fact, I was almost denied my BS degree — what the BS stands for is up to your interpretation — because I am “unboosted.” I am engaged in “vaccine noncompliance,” at least on one of the three …

For better or worse, my brain is wired to doubt. Even when I’m feeling all gooey and spiritual and thinking that maybe there’s a prime mover in charge of things, my skeptical synapses swoop in and spoil the fun, insisting my thoughts are just a trick of human biology. But the pandemic—or …

In this video, Kate Melgoza discusses the rise of working from home during the pandemic and how the freedom of working from home has allowed people to rediscover themselves through the lens of mental health. Full Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUaIctQmsYU