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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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Our Knowledge of Viruses Is Badly Inadequate
Most of the known families are significantly understudied
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We’re Thinking about Climate Change the Wrong Way
Rather than convince other nations to “do their part,” the U.S. should develop clean energy technologies and make them cheap enough for everyone to adopt
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What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Black Americans
The bias built into the health system means they will have worse outcomes on average if they get sick
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Harnessing Social Media for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Campaigns such as #See10Do10 can make a sometimes frivolous way of communicating socially useful
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How to Stop Science Theft
Universities are creating new tools to guard research against threats to national security and competitiveness
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Yes, Liquor Stores Are Essential Businesses
Keeping them open can help people with alcohol use disorder avoid withdrawal symptoms, including tremors, hallucinations and seizures
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The Pandemic Shows Why the U.S. Must Invest in Public Research
This moment of crisis calls for the nation to rediscover its powers of discovery
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Choose Growth
As Abraham Maslow wrote, “One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again”
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Life as We Don’t Know It
If we’re going to find extraterrestrials, we need to stop assuming they’ll think like humans
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First Category 5 Tropical Cyclone of 2020, Harold, Pounds Vanuatu
Harold’s 165-mph winds make it the fourth strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Southeast Pacific
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