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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
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East of Siberia: Owls and the Meaning of April
Spring was always the annual end point for my work studying owls in Russia. This year the coronavirus ensured that the expedition would leave me behind
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Will the Nature-Nurture Debate Ever End?
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Bats Are Not Our Enemies
The viruses they carry spill over into humans mostly when we encroach on their territory or drag them into ours—and bats do great good as well
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The Surprising Power of Social Outreach
Many of us underestimate how positively others will respond when we try it
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During COVID-19, Healers Need Healing, Too
A physician’s suicide reminds us that the plague of COVID-19 creates deep emotional wounds in health care workers
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