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US intelligence agencies raised alarm about coronavirus in classified briefing material prepared for President Donald Trump with increasing frequency over January and February 2020, a period that is seen as a squandered opportunity to aggressively prepare the country for the epidemic. The warnings came in more than a dozen of briefing papers called the President […]
China’s ambassador reportedly is warning the Australian government its pursuit of a coronavirus inquiry could set off a boycott by Chinese consumers, who may no longer travel and study in Australia or buy major exports including beef and wine. Ambassador Cheng Jingye told The Australian Financial Review in an interview published on Monday that Australia’s […]
Trump is not the only one to criticize WHO, India, too, did the same, although PM Modi did not directly criticize the organization in public, only suggested for reforms. In dealing with Coronavirus, the countries, which kept WHO at arm’s length like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and India, have been more successful. Because WHO came […]
Many of us are using home delivery more frequently as part of social distancing — be it parcels, letters or online shopping. But should we be worried about catching coronavirus from the surfaces of these deliveries? Researchers have recently tested how well the new coronavirus survives in the air as an aerosol, and on different […]
The Apple iPhone was released in 2007, a lot of us have not yet grasped the full deleterious effects of ‘the device’, and the many similar not-so-smartphones the now clunky-seeming original spawned. Countless numbers of people have been killed by their smartphones already, and we’re not talking about the tin-foil-hat brigade’s concerns about the effects […]
In the last 3–5 days, a mountain of anecdotal evidence has come out of NYC, Italy, Spain, etc. about COVID-19 and characteristics of patients who get seriously ill. It’s not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong […]
Tony Tovar is the guy who’s become a national sensation known as the “World’s Chillest Man” after he lit up a cigarette at gunpoint as his neighborhood bar was being robbed. Tovar looked cool as a cucumber while the other patrons at Behrmann’s Tavern in St. Louis followed the robber’s orders and hit the deck […]
For six long hours, performance artist Marina Abramovic put her life and body completely in the hands of strangers, turning herself into an object to be used as one wished. During this time she agreed to remain completely passive until the experiment was over. For the audience, there were no immediate consequences. What do you […]
Superstition is any belief or practice that is considered irrational or supernatural: for example, if it arises from ignorance, a misunderstanding of science or causality, a positive belief in fate or magic, or fear of that which is unknown. People have been indulging in weird superstitions throughout history. It used to be customary to tell honeybees when there […]
In the Middle East there’s a veritable boom in marriage these days. Many couples are tying the knot in mass weddings, such as one presided over recently by the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Béchara Boutros Rai. The Maronite Church is one of 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with Rome. According to Jesuit Fr. Steven […]
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