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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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Disease Outbreaks Happen All the Time, But...
COVID-19 reminds us that failure to prepare can lead to disaster
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Leading with the Unknowns in COVID-19 Models
In times of great uncertainty, we should look beyond the data
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Remembering Big Bang Basher Fred Hoyle
The great astrophysicist Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) named the big bang theory but never embraced it...
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To the Angry Grown-Ups in My Town
Yes, the young people around you are still learning. What are you going to teach them?
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A New Web Tool Can Help You Figure Out if Those Symptoms Might Be COVID-19
It’s not meant to diagnose, but it can flag signs and risk factors that indicate the possibility of serious disease
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The Coronavirus and Climate Action
Confronting global warming will take a completely different approach from confronting the pandemic
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That Time It Took a Student 44 Years to Get Her Degree because She Was a Woman
Christine Ladd-Franklin received a Ph.D. in 1926 for work completed in 1882
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Rural Communities Have a Behavioral Health Treatment Problem
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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
It isn’t making COVID-19 worse than the pandemic otherwise would have been—but we can’t say the same for malaria, dengue and other illnesses
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Your Brain Will Thank You for Being a Musician
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