Let’s start with the obvious, $200 is a pretty standard price for the Nintendo Switch Lite, but the real Tom Nook of this deal is that you’re getting Animal Crossing New Horizons for free. During the pandemic, I was sent home with no work and no facility to even work from home for weeks on […]
Read MoreA few weeks after the investigators in Carson published their report, the FDA reinstated its pre-pandemic regulations on hand sanitizer. Now that supply had caught up to demand, the agency said, the relaxed rules were no longer appropriate. Manufacturers were not allowed to sell or donate any sanitizer produced under the rules starting in March […]
Read MoreAfter more than three years, over 6 million hospitalizations, and 1.1 million American deaths, the Biden Administration has officially declared an end to the federal Covid-19 public health emergency as of May 11, 2023. In a fact sheet summarizing the decision, the US Department of Health and Human Services stated that since January 2021, Covid-19-related hospitalizations […]
Read MoreIt’s a truth universally acknowledged that people like money. If you show them the cash, they’re generally more likely to do what you want, whether that be to stop smoking, work out, or keep up with their medication. As vaccines started to roll out of labs during the pandemic, governments began wondering: How can we encourage as many […]
Read MoreI’ve been in academics for more than 20 years as a member of the physics faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Here, the department is small enough that all of us get to share in the course load, which is quite nice—it gives me an opportunity to teach a wide range of courses, […]
Read MoreSamsung has published a study based on data gathered from its Health platform during the COVID-19 pandemic to determine how it has affected our sleeping patterns. Many people have changed their sleeping habits during the pandemic, and the recent findings suggest that although people have spent more time in bed over the past couple of […]
Read MoreWhen the pandemic began, we could imagine that the restoration of specific things we’d put on hold would signal life was returning to normal. Schools would reopen; masks would come off; offices would fill back up, and restaurants would buzz with diners. Thirty months on, we got all those things back—social mixing, return to office, […]
Read MoreThe desperate need to save the lives of Covid patients during the pandemic’s first waves, coupled with shortages of hospital personnel and protective equipment, drove a shocking reversal in progress against deadly superbugs, according to a new analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, released July 12, synthesizes lab and […]
Read More“Alter do Chão has a history of being a matriarchal village,” Neca explains. “If you did a survey here, you’d see that 70 percent of households are run by women.” Dona Lusia never married. “She never let herself be subjugated by a man,” her daughter says. “She raised us all on her own.” Dona Lusia […]
Read MoreWe no longer have a supply problem with vaccines. The only question left is, are you limited by demand or by logistics. In less vaccinated countries, there isn’t much demand. In Nigeria, Covid would be, like, the 15th-largest cause of death—you’ve got HIV, TB, malaria, diarrhea. So when you say to them, “Hey, number 15,” […]
Read MoreApple engineers in China have taken on greater responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, as travel restrictions and lockdowns have prevented Apple from sending as many U.S. engineers to the country as it normally would, according to The Wall Street Journal. While key matters like product design are still handled at Apple’s headquarters in California, the […]
Read MoreThink of the sky as a big bowl of blue soup. Its ingredients include oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, which scientists can precisely measure. But ever since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been adding heaps of extra CO2 by burning fossil fuels, warming the planet 1.2 degrees Celsius so far and complicating those calculations. While […]
Read MorePeople stuck at home during the pandemic are likely to turn to the best gaming laptops for recreation, streaming, and activities that involve social interaction, according to AMD. Vinay Sinha, managing director, sales, AMD India, recently discussed how people are continuing to adapt to remote work and learning as the pandemic persists. A report by […]
Read MoreFor the past two years, the hottest data set in the United Kingdom has dropped every Friday. Scientists, journalists, and amateur data sleuths all dial up one specific website: The Covid-19 Infection Survey, run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), an independent government agency. With 180,000 participants who are swabbed every fortnight, it is […]
Read MoreMicrosoft’s 2022 Work Trend Index (WTI) is here, and with it, new stats on the state of the workforce and fresh insights on the current mindsets of employees. This year’s WTI also includes metaverse-related content. One key figure from this year’s report is that 43% of employees are likely to consider ditching their current jobs, […]
Read MoreExperts have warned for years that those exemptions collectively drive holes in herd immunity and risk sparking epidemics. Outbreaks in states that allow exemptions have proven them correct. As just one example, more than 300 people in California, six other states, Canada, and Mexico developed measles in 2015 after an unvaccinated child caught it from […]
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