Click Here to Read and View: Early studies show promise in coronavirus immunity by Reid Wilson on the Hill website on April 29, 2020.
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Polio’s Jewish History
Click Here to Read: Polio’s Jewish History: How a community was affected by the epidemic—and by the scientists who discovered the vaccine by Jenna Weissman Joselit on the Tablet website on April 29, 2020.
Vaccination Record – description – Hebrew, Arabic and English Image: Bolter21. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
After the Coronavirus, Who Do We Want to Be?
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.
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.
Image: Sir Issac Newton by Gottfried Kneller. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
