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Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria is just one of Africa’s alarming hot spots ~health Article 592 words 7 votes
What we know about your chances of catching the virus outdoors: Pandemic life is safer outdoors, in part, because even a light wind will quickly dilute the virus ~health Article 216 words 8 votes
At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband ~news norway.oslo crime Article 7 votes
The coronavirus is making us all camgirls: For millions of newly remote workers, doing your job now involves looking the part, figuring out your angles, and performing for the camera ~life work.remote Link 7 votes
The board game that turns feminism into a joke: I played Ms. Monopoly so that you don’t have to ~games.tabletop board games Article 1237 words 12 votes
I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl ~life Article 3974 words 11 votes
Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them ~finance economics.macro Article 6 votes
Nearly 40% of Icelanders are using a covid contact-tracing app—and it hasn’t helped much ~health Article 429 words 10 votes
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America ~humanities Article 5662 words 6 votes
As coronavirus overruns Russia, doctors are dying on the front lines ~health healthcare Article 566 words 6 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
Restaurant owners say Uber Eats and Deliveroo are still charging unsustainable commissions on delivery, with many planning to cut the cord on food delivery platforms ~food restaurants Article 719 words 10 votes
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism ~tech privacy internet Article 2873 words, published Aug 23 2018 13 votes
Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends ~humanities language.oral Article 605 words 10 votes
COVID has badly affected wealthy nations, what will it do to poor ones and how can they stop it with their limited means? ~health Article 1572 words 5 votes
'Genocide by default': America prepares for a brutal coronavirus slow burn ~health Article 1043 words 19 votes
Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school ~life education Article 155 words, published May 5 2020 8 votes
'Three decisions and a two-point plan': How Australia got on top of COVID-19 ~health Article 1377 words 4 votes
How scientists could stop the next pandemic before it starts ~health healthcare Article 1581 words, published Apr 21 2020 4 votes
The problem with stories about dangerous coronavirus mutations. There’s no clear evidence that the pandemic virus has evolved into significantly different forms—and there probably won’t be for months ~health Article 2076 words 8 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
"ICU delirium" is leaving COVID-19 patients scared and confused ~health healthcare Article 1848 words 7 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it ~tech internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
How Jared Kushner's volunteer force led a fumbling hunt for US supplies ~health Article 834 words 4 votes
Flattening the truth on coronavirus: All your questions about the pandemic, answered. Sort of ~health Article 922 words 8 votes
A US internal report projects 200,000 new cases per day and 3,000 deaths per day by June 1st ~health Article 772 words 16 votes
‘Murder hornets’ in the US: The rush to stop the Asian giant hornet ~enviro Article 429 words 17 votes
Shipments of SUVs wait out at at sea, revealing scope of US auto market glut ~finance Article 13 votes
Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom ~enviro sustainability Article 16 votes