Pandemic

Bonnie Morris requires her history students at the University of California, Berkeley, to buy 25-cent blue books for her midterm exams. She wants to be able to see them write in person, often an anomaly on campuses, where typed assignments and assists from artificial intelligence are routine. The squat booklets,…

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In this episode, we discover the story of two lost pioneers of the 1930s: physician and self-taught epidemiologist Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, sanitary…

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The U.S., however, did not participate, in part because of its intention to withdraw from…

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, Issue 20, May 2025. SignificanceThere is a constant threat of epidemics or pandemics of respiratory viruses. The most common treatment for respiratory viral diseases is to target viral proteins, but viruses can evolve resistance quickly. Host-directed therapy (HDT) can ...Read More

Influencers have typically thrived during shaky times, from the pandemic recession to sky-high inflation. But something is shifting.Why it matters: The backlash against this industry — built on selling aspirational lifestyles — is gaining new momentum as economic uncertainty spikes.Zoom in: Consumer confidence is plunging and the cracks are showing.TikTok…

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Love Letter to a Garden | Debbie Millman Debbie Millman, host of the Design Matters podcast, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, doesn’t have a natural green thumb. But when the pandemic hit, she embraced the challenge and picked up gardening as a new…

Boeing and Airbus have big order backlogs - Copyright AFP/File SAUL LOEB Elodie MAZEIN with Olga NEDBAEVA in Paris Commercial plane prices, already lifted in recent years due to pandemic supply chain shocks, are poised to climb further as Boeing and Airbus are buffeted by trade tariffs. “Compared with 2018,…

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Published: Apr 19, 2025 by Joshua Sophy In Small Business News The City of Flint, in partnership with LISC Flint, has launched the Flint Small Business Rescue Fund, a one-time grant initiative aimed at supporting local businesses still recovering from the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funded by American…

White House reveals Lab Leak: the true origins of Covid-19 that sent markets spinning Christina Comben · 17 hours ago · 2 min read The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new page endorsing the lab leak theory as the origin of COVID-19. 2 min read Updated: Apr. 19,…