Numbers
Posted by Thomas F. Bersson & Jonathan S. Bersson on June 07, 2020
Now is not the time to go to the grocery store, to restock the pantry, to get fresh milk and eggs. Yet I need to replenish my food supplies. Well then, I should go. Wait, is everyone…
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Culture
Posted by Jim Davies on May 19, 2020
Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of surrogate life. You can learn from them so seamlessly that you might believe you knew something—about ancient Greece, say—before having gleaned…
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Ideas
Posted by Tam Hunt on May 14, 2020
This month, the cover of New Scientist ran the headline, “Is the Universe Conscious?” Mathematician and physicist Johannes Kleiner, at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy…
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Ideas
Posted by Ed Simon on May 12, 2020
Now that we’re corralled into our homes and apartments, something seems pre-modern in how our worlds have shrunk. Unlike past quarantines, we’re also connected by digital technology…
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Culture
Posted by Robert Bazell on May 07, 2020
When I worked as a TV reporter covering health and science, I would often be recognized in public places. For the most part, the interactions were brief hellos or compliments. Two periods…
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Culture
Posted by Mark MacNamara on May 06, 2020
We called Greg Carr the other day to talk about the spread of the coronavirus in Africa. Carr, who has been featured in Nautilus, is the founder of the Gorongosa Restoration Project,…
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Biology
Posted by Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay on April 24, 2020
On January 5, six days after China officially announced a spate of unusual pneumonia cases, a team of researchers at Shanghai’s Fudan University deposited the full genome sequence of…
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Biology
Posted by Robert Bazell on April 23, 2020
Wayne Koff is one of the world’s experts on vaccine development, the president and CEO of the Human Vaccines Project. He possesses a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges…
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Ideas
Posted by Jordan Shapiro on April 20, 2020
Many of us are stuck now, sheltered in our messy dwellings. A daily walk lets me appreciate the urban landscaping; but I can’t stop to smell anything because a blue cotton bandana shields…
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Biology
Posted by Helen Stillwell on April 17, 2020
This story was updated post-publication to include information from a study published on the preprint server medRxiv on April 17, 2020.With more than half a million cases of COVID-19 in…
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