Archive for April 2025

A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.

Each person lives a personal history of love. Typically, this involves things like middle-school crushes, high-school couples, college hook-ups, beautiful moments, bad breakups, unforgettable dates, dates you’d rather forget, reliable partners, unreliable jerks, leaps of trust, insipid marriages, pains of betrayal, love into old age, and so on. Of course, no single history looks the same. But a reasonable hope is that, as we gain experience as lovers, we figure out what works for us and what doesn’t. Ideally, a person reflects on the reasons they have for loving certain persons and not others, and this reflection allows for the discovery of a deeper, more valuable love. Ideally, love gains wisdom.

In many parts of the country, rising rents have hit a political limit, as politicians, unions, and community organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of housing to the cost-of-living crisis.

I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters. It’s not just the sheer volume of assignments that appear to be entirely generated by AI—papers that show no sign the student has listened to a lecture, done any of the assigned reading, or even briefly entertained a single concept from the course.

Latest workforce figures from the Department for Education (DfE) show 23 per cent of the workforce was either a first-line, middle or senior manager last year. That compares to 20.2 per cent in 2023 and 19.8 per cent in 2017.