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To better integrate disease forecasting into decision-making, the CDC and other public health agencies should look to the history of the National Weather Service for inspiration. Americans take for granted [...]
75 years after the UN's creation, Secretary-General @antonioguterres says we're not living in a multipolar world so much as a chaotic one.Our interview, from today's GPS: pic.twitter.com/b45S3nsUb4— Fareed Zakaria (@FareedZakaria) [...]
Experts know we may need more Covid-19 shutdowns—and are hunting for less costly ways to slow the spread. By ZACHARY KARABELL 06/16/2020 04:30 AM EDT Source: Politico Reprinted for educational [...]
Source: BBC News The leader of Tibetan Buddhism sees reasons for optimism even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. People are helping one another, he tells the BBC's Justin [...]
Defying conventional wisdom: Promoting a fact-based approach The greatest threat facing innovation is a reliance on ‘conventional wisdom’, which constrains industries to old methods that have little basis in fact. [...]
The digital age, like the age of the printing press, has transformed our modes of social interaction — our reading and writing habits and methods of communication and consumption. It [...]
Time is running out to prepare for the next pandemic. We must act now with decisiveness and purpose. By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker May 21, 2020 Source: Foreign [...]
Arriving at a time of change, the pandemic could bring forward the fossil-fuel peak Amid covid-19’s sweeping devastation, its effect on greenhouse gases has emerged as something of a bright [...]
