Why does the U.S. have so many Chinatowns?September 14, 2020 – Rooted in both racism and marketing, historic immigrant enclaves grapple with a crippling pandemic, rising rents, and uncertain futures.
An ancient forest in Alaska loses environmental protectionsOctober 30, 2020 – The Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sustains Indigenous communities. A rollback of federal protections puts more than half of it at risk.
Italy’s reopening and Berlin’s digital nightclubs: The world in a weekMay 06, 2020 – Here’s how to explore more: Tour Helsinki and Seoul by podcast, learn to urban forage, and help rhinos in Uganda.
MERS Virus Migrates to One More Country. What Will Contain It?June 18, 2015 – A respiratory virus that originates in the Middle East and has been hopscotching the globe for three years has today landed in yet another country, just as international health officials are raising concerns about the conditions that allow it to spread. The virus is called MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, and this morning Thai officials revealed that […]
Possible Pandemic: Is MERS the New SARS?May 31, 2013 – Almost 50 people have been infected with a new SARS-like illness. Are our modern lifestyles making us more susceptible?
Listen Closely To The Bats and You Can Hear the Viral ChatterMarch 20, 2013 – Last June, a sixty-year-old man in Saudi Arabia fell ill with pneumonia. His disease, it turned out, was caused by a virus no one had seen before. It was a coronavirus–in other words, it belonged to a lineage of viruses that includes ones that cause colds as well as ones that cause SARS. But this […]
I’ve got your missing links right here (11 May 2013)May 11, 2013 – Top picks “I was swallowed by a hippo.” A hungry, hungry hippo. Beating parasites with parasites – Wolbachia bacteria makes mosquitoes resistant to malaria parasite Lord have MERS. New coronavirus gets a name, inspiring a funny rant from Crawford Killian and a powerful piece from Helen Branswell on a Canadian SARS survivor who has gone […]
I’ve got your missing links right here (23 March 2013)March 23, 2013 – Top picks What it’s like growing up when your mum is a futurist. Amazing read from Veronique Greenwood Terrific reporting on a new coronavirus by Ian Sample – will it trigger the next pandemic? Fantastic Amy Maxmen piece on the thorny issue of gene patenting. I had NO idea the BRCA2 patent race went down […]
