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Can We Survive Extreme Heat?

8 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Vaccine Privilege in America and COVID-19 Inequities in India

14 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

8 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen & Paul Kiel ProPublica In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income […]

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LAW

How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life

5 May 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

India is What Happens When Rich People do Nothing

3 May 2021by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Vidya Krishnan The Atlantic This month, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, India’s capital and home to millions, tweeted that the city was facing an “acute shortage” of […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Understanding Herd Immunity

31 August 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

How the Pandemic Defeated America

7 August 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

How Viruses Evolve

21 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Cognitive Bias and Public Health Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

5 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog & Franklin G. Miller Journal of the American Medical Association As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic abates in many countries worldwide, and […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Closing in on the New Coronavirus

5 April 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

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 […]

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