Can We Survive Extreme Heat?
By Jeff Goodell Rolling Stone On a scorching day in downtown Phoenix, when the temperature soars to 115°F or higher, heat becomes a lethal force. Sunshine assaults you, forcing you to […]
Tag Archives: Global Health
Vaccine Privilege in America and COVID-19 Inequities in India
By Madhushree Ghosh Longreads Seventeen years ago, I receive the call most immigrants dread. It is inevitable, and yet. The call announces that my Baba, my indefatigable, extroverted, positively enthusiastic […]
How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life
By Steven Johnson The New York Times Magazine The period from 1916 to 1920 marked the last point in which a major reversal in global life expectancy would be recorded. […]
Understanding Herd Immunity
By James Hamblin The Atlantic Edward Lorenz was just out of college when he was recruited into World War II. He was assigned to be a weather forecaster, despite having […]
How the Pandemic Defeated America
By Ed Yong The Atlantic How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America […]
How Viruses Evolve
By Bob Holmes Knowable Magazine The unusual cases of pneumonia began to appear in midwinter, in China. The cause, researchers would later learn, was a coronavirus new to science. By […]
Closing in on the New Coronavirus
By Tim Vernimmen Knowable Magazine It is new, but not entirely. The coronavirus upending the world right now is so similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus of […]
Using Antibiotics Wisely
By Jim O’Neill Project Syndicate To solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the world needs not only new drugs, but also new behavior – by all seven billion of us. […]
