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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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Partisan Differences over the Pandemic Response Are Growing
Polling finds public trust in medical scientists has increased but only among Democrats—while optimism about a vaccine is broadly shared
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How ‘Cognitive’ Tech Can Prevent a Food Crisis
The pandemic is threatening the food supply chain, but automation can fill crucial gaps
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Coronavirus Roundup, May 23–May 29
Here are pandemic news highlights for the week
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Nobody Wants to Have End-of-Life Conversations, But ...
Doing so is more important than ever in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Missing Memories of the Universe
With observatories shut down because of the pandemic, the photons that reveal the secrets of the cosmos can’t be recorded or decoded
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The Angle of Doom
When an asteroid hits a planet, it’s not just about the energy
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A Day in the Life of a COVID-19 Physician
The pandemic challenges a young critical care doctor in ways he could never have imagined
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Precision Mobile Testing Is Key to Opening the Economy Safely
Fighting COVID-19 with our antiquated paradigm of centralized health care delivery is like fighting World War III with a musket
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A Passion for Beetles (and Spiders) in the Time of Coronavirus
Although schools are closed for now, nature is still open for exploration and learning
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Robert May (1936–2020) and the Future of Scientific Research
He was utterly unpretentious, without guile or dissimulation, and candid to the point of tactlessness—qualities in unfortunately short supply today
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