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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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Will the Nature-Nurture Debate Ever End?
Biology writer Carl Zimmer answers questions on heredity, CRISPR, human enhancement, immortality and the coronavirus...
Coronavirus Roundup for May 9–May 15
Here are pandemic news highlights for the week
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
The Surprising Power of Social Outreach
Many of us underestimate how positively others will respond when we try it
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
COVID-19 Is like an X-ray of Society
The disease’s unequal impacts on different segments of the population are illuminating long-standing structural injustices
April 2020: Earth’s 2nd Warmest April on Record
2020 is likely to be the warmest year on record...
The Answer to a COVID-19 Vaccine May Lie in Our Genes, But ...
We shouldn’t risk our genetic privacy to find it
Prediction Tools Can Save Lives in the COVID-19 Crisis
Platforms that enable nuanced forms of crowdsourcing are opening a new era in epidemiological forecasting
We Need to Rethink Involuntary Hospitalization during This Pandemic
Patients held for psychiatric care are especially vulnerable; we must act now to support them
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