Day: November 17, 2005

I don’t know why I get worked up about this stuff, but there’s a boneheaded editor at the NYTimes who today decided that Tamiflu is a flu vaccine. It’s not. It’s a drug that treats the flu. There’s a world of difference. The writers of the article, Andrew Pollack and Tom Wright, got this correct, referring to Tamiflu as a drug throughout the entire piece.

Given the huge debate going on about how to improve the vaccine infrastructure to prevent a flu pandemic, a headline like this is only going to give more people a wrong impression about the issues.

Neat interview at BusinessWeek about innovative retail achitecture with New Retail author Raul Barraneche:

[W]hat interests both the company and the architects involved is the fact that retail spaces are, by nature, building types that allow for innovation. Stores offer quick turnaround times, as opposed to, say, a residence or a museum. […]To paraphrase [architect] Zaha Hadid, shopping is an effective way to see a city; these days, to see what’s new in architecture, the most efficient thing to do is to go and look at stores.

Make sure you check out the accompanying slideshow.