“At the end of the day, Brand Ebola may be too strong to counter. ‘It’s got high awareness, it’s easy to understand, it’s got a fairy simple story,’ said Calkins. ‘It’s the ice bucket challenge, but bad.’”
by John Stillman
So you’re doing “Ebola” for your halloween costume this year. You’ve found a topical novelty outfit online, or maybe you’ve just purchased some cheap and readily available medical clothing, knowing that your peers will have no problem guessing what…
It’s election season. It’s October. According to the political-astrological calendar, this is very important: It’s time for an October surprise. Juan Williams thinks the surprise will be war:
To be clear, Republicans remain a…
This is the App Store ranking history for an app called Plague Inc. It’s a game in which players design and deploy…
The White House Briefing Room would have been empty if the remaining reporters had anywhere to go. It was the fourth scheduled press conference that had come and gone without so much as a knock on the barricaded door. Before the TVs went out, things seemed to be slowing…
A group of young people return from a week in a remote and disconnected cabin only to find their home city in chaos. Ebola has arrived, and it has gone airborne. Panic and grief overtake these old friends, who don’t know what to do. One suggests hiding in her apartment, a converted loft…
Every morning, that first glance at your email is a concession and a gamble. It is a concession that this day will proceed in the manner of ___days past, and that you agree to deal with whatever shows up in your inbox, either by consciously engaging with it or consciously ignoring it; it…
An outbreak of Ebola is on track to become the largest in history, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. There are now over 500…
“Fears are growing that the most lethal form of the Ebola virus can mutate into an airborne pathogen, making the spread of the terrifying disease more difficult to check. It was previously thought the untreatable virus, which causes massive internal bleeding and multiple organ failure…
