‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 17, 2020August 17, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: ‘The house was on fire.’ Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic By Jon Cohen on the AAAS Science website on May. 22, 2020.
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The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 15, 2020August 15, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back: The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found Story by Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal on the Atlantic website on August 14, 2020.
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Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale: A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic by Norman Doidge on the Tablet Magazine website on August 14, 2020.
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Diary: On the NHS

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Diary: On the NHS by E.P. Thompson in the London Review of Books Vol. 9 No. 9 · 7 May 1987.
E P Thompson addresses anti-nuclear weapons rally, Oxford, England, 1980. Image: Kim Traynor Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be ‘scientifically meaningless’

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 29, 2020July 29, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be ‘scientifically meaningless’ on the Neuroscience News website on ·July 8, 2019.

Hubble’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Science

Click Here to Read: Hubble’s brand new image of Saturn will blow your mind by Mark Kaufman on the Mashable website on July 25, 2020.
Quadruple Saturn Moon Transit Snapped By Hubble Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Date July 1, 2016. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A New Theory of Dreaming

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: A New Theory of Dreaming: Do dreams exist to protect the brain’s visual cortex? by Neuroskeptic on the Discover website on July 26, 2020,
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