“Experts say there’s a dire shortage of primates for biomedical research—and it’s putting human lives at risk.”
COVID-19
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Cabin Fever: A Reading List for the Perpetually Isolated
How the pandemic made us confront what it means to be alone.
Posted inNonfiction
The Significance of Sniffing: A Reading List on Smell
Why it’s important to give things a sniff.
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The Cabin on the Mountain
“Sometimes, the mechanism of the answer is something ludicrously complex, a thing that must be pieced out bit by bit. Other times, the solution requires retooling your perspective.”
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A Pandemic Tragedy in Guayaquil
In this harrowing read for The New Yorker, Daniel Alarcón paints a grim picture of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, which endured one of the world’s most lethal outbreaks of COVID-19. In Guayaquil, on any given day before the pandemic, there might have been thirty to fifty people whose deaths had to be accounted for, whose […]
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‘My Sincere Condolences’
Inside the struggles and heartaches of FEMA’s massive COVID funeral assistance program.
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Without Paid Leave, the South’s COVID School Policies Cause a Terrible Trickle Down for Families
“Schools are at the epicenter of local and state COVID-19 protocols, using families—and children—as political bargaining chips.”
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Did Covid Change How We Dream?
“After 9/11, Barrett believed that she’d never encounter another event that would have such a profound and widespread influence on dreams. Now, as the new virus spread and the world began to shut down, she realized she had been wrong. Like her dream-self in the library, she was living through a storm — what she […]