How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him

Click Here to Read: How the Italians Lost Track of Machiavelli Just When They Needed Him Journal of a Plague: When it comes to disease, sometimes the enemy has to be at the gates, or even inside them, before the Behavioral Immune System will start to mount a defense by Norman Doidge on the Tablet website on April 24, 2020.
Map of the 2019-nCoV outbreak in Italy as of March 5, 2020. Image: Night Lantern.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Year of Wonders 1665-1667

Click Here to Read: Year of Wonders 1665-1667 Whilst escaping the Great Plague, Newton’s enormously productive time at Woolsthorpe is often called the Annus Mirabilis, or the “Year of Wonders’. Read about this period of intellectual endeavour, with extracts taken from the new Woolsthorpe guidebook by Patricia Fara on the National Trust of UK website.
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She discovered coronaviruses decades ago—but got little recognition

Click Here to Read: She discovered coronaviruses decades ago—but got little recognition: Scientific pioneer June Almeida is finally being acknowledged for virology breakthroughs she made a half century ago by Sydney Combs on the National Geographic website on April 17, 2020.
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