by Dr Roland Chia | Aug 3, 2020 | Pulse
August 2020 Pulse In an animated debate with Elon Mask at the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in August 2019, Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, insisted that artificial intelligence poses no threat to humanity. ‘Computers may be...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 20, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse An expression that has appeared again and again in reports about measures mandated to contain the global coronavirus outbreak is ‘social distancing’. According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, social distancing (used interchangeably...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 6, 2020 | Pulse
July 2020 Pulse On 7 June 2020, thousands gathered in Bristol to watch and cheer as the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th century slave trader, was torn from its plinth and thrown into the harbour in protest against racism. As Gurminder Bhambra of The New York Times...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 15, 2020 | Pulse
June 2020 Pulse On 25 May, police in the city of Minneapolis arrested George Floyd, 46, for allegedly using counterfeit money to purchase a packet of cigarettes. During the arrest, officer Derek Chavin, 44, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes, despite the suspect’s...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 1, 2020 | Pulse
June 2020 Pulse On March 31, Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, described Covid-19 as ‘the great equaliser’. There is a sense in which Cuomo was right: the coronavirus is no respecter of persons and has in its wake afflicted healthcare professionals, a member of...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 18, 2020 | Pulse
May 2020 Pulse One of the greatest challenges that doctors and healthcare professionals face in the situation of a widespread virus outbreak like the current Covid-19 pandemic has to do with decisions they have to make on a daily basis concerning which patients should...
