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New York City’s contingency plan for ‘biological outbreaks’ includes mobile refrigerator units for dead bodies and mass graves dug by inmates New York City

New York City’s contingency plan for ‘biological outbreaks’ includes mobile refrigerator units for dead bodies and mass graves dug by inmates

If the coronavirus outbreak were to get out of control in New York City, government officials have a plan for how to deal with all the dead bodies.The plan, developed by the chief medical examiner in 2008, would see refrigerated units placed outside hospitals to store the dead temporarily, and…
bubmag
March 10, 2020
How Wikipedia’s volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation New York City

How Wikipedia’s volunteers became the web’s best weapon against misinformation

For a few minutes near the end of his first presidential debate, Mike Bloomberg was dead. At 9:38 p.m. Eastern time, a Wikipedia user named DQUACK02 added some text to the Wikipedia page for the former Democratic presidential candidate and New York City mayor:“death_date   = {{Death date and age|2020|02|19|1942|02|14}};…
bubmag
March 7, 2020
‘We Have No Practice Talking About Race in This Country.’ Claudia Rankine on White Privilege and Her New Play Help New York City

‘We Have No Practice Talking About Race in This Country.’ Claudia Rankine on White Privilege and Her New Play Help

On a February afternoon at the Manhattan arts complex The Shed, 19 white men are practicing an interpretive dance sequence on rolling chairs. In between takes, they are at ease; they playfully slide off their chairs, manspread, roll around in circles, drum absent-mindedly on their knees. But no such repose…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
We went inside a New York City ‘nano-warehouse’ that’s being pitched as a solution to e-commerce logistics nightmares — here’s what we saw New York City

We went inside a New York City ‘nano-warehouse’ that’s being pitched as a solution to e-commerce logistics nightmares — here’s what we saw

Alex Nicoll/Business Insider This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. With rising demand for e-commerce, small warehouses near city centers are now highly sought after real estate.Bond, a logistics startup, has opened six "nano-warehouses" across New York City, turning vacant retail space…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
1954: Marilyn Monroe New York City

1954: Marilyn Monroe

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe—already a sex symbol and a movie star—posed on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street in New York City, for a scene intended to appear in her 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. The breeze blowing up through a subway grate sent her white dress…
bubmag
March 5, 2020
A New York City man wasn’t tested for coronavirus even though he had symptoms and had gone to Japan. It highlights the troublingly limited scope of US testing. New York City

A New York City man wasn’t tested for coronavirus even though he had symptoms and had gone to Japan. It highlights the troublingly limited scope of US testing.

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, went to the emergency room with a fever and cough on Thursday. He'd just returned from Japan, where more than 200 people have the new coronavirus.His case was not "of concern" based on the official criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…
bubmag
March 3, 2020