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The Big Picture Spanish Flu

The Big Picture

When I posted my COVID19 turning points one of mine – and one that many TPM Readers shared – was listening to New York Times science and health reporter Donald McNeil on The Daily podcast on February 27th clearly comparing COVID to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in which “not…
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May 13, 2020
Rosie DiManno: Sluggish move to live online teaching puts York Region board on asynchronous path with others Computers in School

Rosie DiManno: Sluggish move to live online teaching puts York Region board on asynchronous path with others

Today’s lesson: Use the word asynchronous in a sentence.Thusly: The York Region District School Board doesn’t know its ass from its asynchronous.Not grammatically correct, probably. Fail.I always like to expand my vocabulary. So I’m indebted to the YRDSB for introducing me to asynchronous — fundamentally two events not happening at…
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May 13, 2020
How growth can help Europe’s companies face the coming economic crisis Jean-Claude Juncker

How growth can help Europe’s companies face the coming economic crisis

The great social imperative of the COVID-19 human crisis is the need to both save lives and protect livelihoods. The threat to both has become increasingly clear: too many people are still suffering and dying—though, at this writing, according to the European Union Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, “the initial…
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May 13, 2020
[Stories of social change] Matching donors with those in need during a crisis Bushfire

[Stories of social change] Matching donors with those in need during a crisis

Over the years, the world has seen remarkable and rapid advancements in technology which are deeply impacting society. Despite this, we continue to struggle with issues such as poverty, violence, and climate change. At ThoughtWorks, we believe that technologists have a unique role to play in how we can positively…
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May 13, 2020
Podcast: The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers Black Hole

Podcast: The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers

Host: Shamini BundellWelcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, Elisabeth Bik, the scientific image detective…Host: Nick HoweAnd how air pollution can form in cities. I’m Nick Howe.Host: Shamini BundellAnd I’m Shamini Bundell.Host: Shamini BundellFirst up, reporter Adam Levy has made contact with a scientific sleuth.Interviewer: Adam LevyElisabeth Bik spends…
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May 13, 2020
C9orf72 suppresses systemic and neural inflammation induced by gut bacteria Antibiotics

C9orf72 suppresses systemic and neural inflammation induced by gut bacteria

AbstractA hexanucleotide-repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common genetic variant that contributes to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia1,2. The C9ORF72 mutation acts through gain- and loss-of-function mechanisms to induce pathways that are implicated in neural degeneration3,4,5,6,7,8,9. The expansion is transcribed into a long repetitive RNA, which negatively sequesters…
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May 13, 2020
Podcast: The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers Air Pollution

Podcast: The super-sleuth who spots trouble in science papers

Host: Shamini BundellWelcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, Elisabeth Bik, the scientific image detective…Host: Nick HoweAnd how air pollution can form in cities. I’m Nick Howe.Host: Shamini BundellAnd I’m Shamini Bundell.Host: Shamini BundellFirst up, reporter Adam Levy has made contact with a scientific sleuth.Interviewer: Adam LevyElisabeth Bik spends…
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May 13, 2020