[From Cat Sparks:] Ever read a short story by Paul Haines? Chances are that afterwards you needed a strong drink, strong cup of coffee, or a long shower. Paul is well known in the Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction community for writing the creepy stuff, the scary shit, the story that makes you go [...]

This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has a—shall we say—rather frank exchange of views on the methods for assessing casualty rates in Iraq following the 2003 invasion. Readers may well wonder how it is that two studies of deaths in Iraq could come up with a ten-fold difference in reported deaths. The short answer [...]