The Nobel Peace Prize goes to the UN’s World Food Program for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic. / The New York Times An overview of how other pandemics came to an end. / BBC News Some 171 countries are teaming up for a
The New England Journal of Medicine condemns the White House’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and calls for Trump to be voted out of office. / The New England Journal of Medicine Dexamethasone, the steroid being administered to the president as part of his kitchen-sink treatment for COVID-19,
If you liked David Attenborough's new "witness statement" on Netflix, with lots of footage of the naturalist as a young man, here's Carl Sagan in The Violent Universe, produced by the BBC in 1969, broadcast only three months before the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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Washington, DC, records its highest number of daily coronavirus cases in more than four months. / WAMU Several members of the Pentagon's senior leadership are quarantining after a top Coast Guard official tests positive. / CNN President Trump says he won’t negotiate a new fiscal stimulus package, then reverses.
UCLA astrophysicist Andrea Ghez, who just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, spent over two decades proving that a supermassive black hole anchors the center of the Milky Way. In the video, she (briefly) explains how they did it.
The US has reported more than 97,000 new cases of COVID-19 since the news of President Trump’s positive test. / Vox Meanwhile, the White House is doing almost nothing to investigate its outbreak. / The New York Times The White House blocks new FDA guidelines on bringing potential vaccines
On the meaning of swimming pools in movies. See also: "Which Hollywood Sex Symbols Actually Have Sex on Screen? A Study."
Four percent of the world’s population, and more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths. How the United States has bungled the coronavirus: what went wrong when, and who’s to blame and why.
Yesterday, Trump took a brief motorcade with two Secret Service members to wave to supporters outside Walter Reed hospital. / BuzzFeed News A Walter Reed attending physician: "Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They
