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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

How DrKoop dot com, briefly the world's top health site, helmed by Koop in his 80s - how it rose and how it fell; from my new Koop biography. "The definitive biography for decades to come," per Randy Balmer. Per top online medic KevinMD. kevinmd.com/2025/04/how-...

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How DrKoop.com rose and fell: the untold story behind the Surgeon General’s startup

C. Everett Koop’s ambitious venture into online health care through DrKoop.com soared briefly before collapsing under the weight of blurred ethics, failed business strategies, and lost public trust.

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Everything is terrible, so why not learn about the first woman to run for US president in 1872. It is a story of defiance and success against incredible odds, so maybe it can cheer us all up a little…

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to the publication of my biography of Dr. Koop! Next month from U Mass Press.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So MS is raising its price for our account by just less than one-third. I'm relieved that this will help fund "new innovations." Seriously....

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12/12/2024

⚡️ Macron, Tusk to discuss deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine after ceasefire, Bloomberg reports. President Macron is visiting Warsaw on Dec. 12 to brief the Polish prime minister on his meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last week.

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Macron, Tusk to discuss deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine after ceasefire, Bloomberg reports

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Warsaw on Dec. 12 to brief the Polish prime minister on his meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump last week and to discuss Europe's support for Uk...

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, during a visit to Kyiv, confirmed his readiness to provide Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles if he heads the German government after the elections in February 2025. www.holosameryky.com/a/merz-pidtv...

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ah, Eurostar! As in the sub-channel original. Crummy wifi and filthy windows. Always. Plus decaying seat-backs and no holders for drinks. And inane nagging messages on the TV screens. #monopoly

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Ahem.... Of course this raises rather starkly two very different issues, one of which is that a gazillion smart folk (including a bunch of my friends) decided to go MAGA; the other is that the MAGA analysis assumes that America ain't great, which is pretty unobservant and, well, unpatriotic.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I suspect someone will get a Nobel for the physics of moving around on a bus.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I'm reminded of Nicholas Kristoff's comment on George W. Bush's PEPFAR, said now to have saved 20m+ lives in Africa - the single best policy of any prez in his lifetime. (Of course, as the sadly late Mike Gerson - who had a lot to do with it - pointed out, Koop had laid the groundwork....)

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Well, there’s a story.

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

One of the fun things about living in Belgium is that many of the locals don't know or care who is "in power," bolstered by the fact that there have been long periods with no-one at all at the helm.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Most admired President or Prime Minster currently in power. Any candidates right now or are we calling the whole thing off?

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Haha. Distinctly weird to be revisiting one's Twitter youth.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Wel, it's complicated! One reason why Americans love criticizing the UK single-payer model, and vice versa, is that neither wants to look at continental Europe. In Belgium and France, where we live now, the systems are hybrid. We are required to buy private insurance from what are called mutuals.

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

"We've spent the last 2 or 3 days talking about what the police are doing, and I wanted to address the question, what did the killer do to make it possible that we're still talking about a massive manhunt?" @cnn.com about my @theatlantic.com essay.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I'm reminded of a flight I took many years back seated beside an increasingly drunk executive of a health insurance company, who spent a couple of hours telling me how they made their money out of denying care, and how bad he felt about it. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

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Opinion | The Rage and Glee That Followed a C.E.O.’s Killing Should Ring All Alarms (Gift Article)

It echoes another era of extreme inequality and extreme violence.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's remarkable how this pretty basic bit of economics seems lost on otherwise intelligent people. Trump is planning to make a whole lot of stuff much more expensive, especially for poorer Americans. See, Walmart.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fascinating. www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/f...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That was then, this is now, has to bear quite a bit of weight!

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Nigel Cameron @nigelcameron.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Pretty much! Of course, I wrote a book that touched on the deskilling inherent in higher-level robotics/AI development....

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