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Alex Bäcker

Alex Bäcker

The Selfless Reason for Our Pride

Yesterday, we witnessed the greatest World Cup final the world has ever seen. Not that Argentina is a stranger to nail-biting World Cup…

Dec 19, 2022

The Selfless Reason for Our Pride

Dec 19, 2022

Alex Bäcker

The Parable of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi

Perhaps the most famous soccer rivalry of the last decade has been that between Lionel Messi, formerly of Barcelona Football Club, and…

Dec 12, 2022

The Parable of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi

Dec 12, 2022

Alex Bäcker

To Reduce Your Chances of Dying From Covid-19, Take Some Sunlight

Imagine you were an extraterrestrial creature trying to understand how to get away from a car, from a ship and from a plane chasing you…

Apr 30, 2020

Apr 30, 2020

Alex Bäcker

COVID-19: What’s ahead

There are two models I am aware of that have reduced the virus. One is China, which did it by waiting to start until new cases were down…

Apr 17, 2020

COVID-19: What’s ahead

Apr 17, 2020

Alex Bäcker

Don’t confuse two different flattenings

Much has been said about the need to flatten the curve and spread infections out in time to reduce the peak of people needing…

Mar 29, 2020

Don’t confuse two different flattenings

Mar 29, 2020

Alex Bäcker

Why Covid-19 killed more Italians than scientists predicted, and the US is headed to an even worse…

Gabor Vattay from Eötvös Loránd University wrote a paper nine days ago predicting the number of deaths in Italy would end up at 6,000, but…

Mar 28, 2020

Why Covid-19 killed more Italians than scientists predicted, and the US is headed to an even worse…

Mar 28, 2020

Alex Bäcker

Alex Bäcker

The author holds a Ph.D. in biology from Caltech, where he serves on the Board of Information Science & Technology, & founded QLess, the social distancing app.

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