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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Racism, Not Genetics, Explains Why Black Americans Are Dying of COVID-19
Some scientists and politicians have invoked baseless ideas about unknown genes, ignoring systemic inequality and oppression
Why Would Anyone Distrust Anthony Fauci?
It’s because Americans tend to believe in science, but they don’t always think scientists share their values
The Last Root of Unity
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One Weird Trick to Make Calculus More Beautiful
The strange power of complex analysis
Rosetta Stones Rolls On
We say so long to the Scientific American blogs network. But this isn’t goodbye!
George Floyd’s Autopsy and the Structural Gaslighting of America
The weaponization of medical language emboldened white supremacy with the authority of the white coat. How will we stop it from happening again?
Coronavirus News Roundup, May 30–June 5
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Silence Is Never Neutral; Neither Is Science
Ignoring science’s legacy of racism or a wider culture shaped by white supremacy doesn’t make scientists “objective“
What Social Distancing Reveals about East-West Differences
The pandemic could spur psychological changes in both the U.S. and China
Proving a Legendary Mathematician Wrong
Remembering “Euler’s spoilers,” who showed that special magic squares exist
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