Click Here to Read: After the Coronavirus, Who Do We Want to Be? ‘It’s a good bet that, for better or for worse, tomorrow’s world will not be the same as yesterday’s’ BY Bernard-Henri Levy on April 27, 2020.
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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.
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A Sobering Astronomical Reminder from COVID-19
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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CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm
Click Here to Read: CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol by Beth Mole on the Ars Technia website
April 20, 2020.
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Susan Kavaler-Adler on COVID-19 and on Marriage
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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