Since 1970, nearly a hundred healthcare workers were prosecuted for their killing sprees in hospitals and clinics, and it is suspected that a hundred more never had to answer for their crimes. These killers remained unnoticed because they preyed on one of the most vulnerable sectors of society – the elderly languishing alone in care homes and hospitals – and because people had trouble accepting that most of these killers were women. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
