Ideas
Posted by Linda Thunstrom on April 07, 2020
In a recent viral news segment on CNN, cars are shown exiting what a narrator says is a church parking lot—dozens of people, including children, had just attended an evening service.…
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Culture
Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder on April 02, 2020
It’s week three of COVID lockdown here in Germany. Schools are closed, my institute is closed, my husband’s workplace is also closed. Half of the shops in the city are closed. Everything,…
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Biology
Posted by Robert Bazell on March 31, 2020
On April 15, 2020, 2,271 people in the United States will die from COVID-19. That day, the U.S. will be short 61,509 hospital beds, 33,440 slots in intensive care units, and 26,753 ventilators.…
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Biology
Posted by Brandon Keim on March 27, 2020
Needing to clear my head, I went down to the Penobscot River. There they were, swimming with the mergansers, following an early pulse of river herring to the mouth of Kenduskeag stream:…
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Ideas
Posted by Ilan Kelman on March 24, 2020
Parts of the world might have shut down, but nature never does. Even while people stay at home and learn about physical distancing, weather, tectonic shifts, meteorites, and solar storms…
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Ideas
Posted by Kenneth E. Miller on March 20, 2020
Amid all the calls in nearly every country for social distancing, the most powerful tool we have to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, one important fact gets lost: We are fundamentally…
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Biology
Posted by Helen Stillwell on March 19, 2020
Is there a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2? The internet is awash with articles and posts seeking to shed light on this very question.Currently, there is no approved vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.…
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Culture
Posted by Scott Koenig on March 18, 2020
During the Spanish flu of 1918, it was Vick’s VapoRub. During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, it was canned food. Now, as the number of cases of COVID-19 grows worldwide, it’s, among…
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Biology
Posted by Robert Bazell on March 17, 2020
How many people could die from a novel coronavirus infection? Of course, no one knows. But just before anyone had a hint of COVID-19, we got an estimate from a panel of health, security,…
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Ideas
Posted by Ilan Kelman on March 16, 2020
A new virus sweeps the world, closing borders, shutting down arts and sports, and killing thousands of people. Is this coronavirus pandemic, with the disease named Covid-19, simply a natural…
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