Tag Archives: Looks

New coronavirus looks set to cause a pandemic – how do we control it?

By Debora MacKenzie The new coronavirus, as imaged by an electron microscopeZhu et al/NEJM © 2020, Massachusetts Medical Society The new coronavirus may be about to go global. Speaking at a press conference earlier this week, Gabriel Leung at the University of Hong Kong said that without “substantial, draconian measures limiting population mobility” – even… Read More »

It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It’s Not. ‘Just Trust God,’ Buyers Are Told. – The New York Times

Eight-year-old Blake Collie was at the swimming pool when he got a frightening headache. His parents rushed him to the emergency room only to learn he had a brain aneurysm. Blake spent nearly two months in the hospital. His family did not have traditional health insurance. “We could not afford it,” said his father, Mark… Read More »

Hidden home is bigger than it looks

A commanding street presence is a term often used to attach value to a property, however the brief Architect Andrew Child received for a build in Inverloch, on the Victorian coast, south-east of Melbourne asked for quite the opposite. “This project was unique in that it’s a house that attempts to minimise its street presence,”… Read More »