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This article appears in The American Prospect magazine’s February 2022 special issue, “How We Broke the Supply Chain.” Anyone old enough to remember the Cold War is familiar with a scene routinely depicted on U.S. television at the time: the Soviet breadline. Warning Americans about life under communism, these clips showed Russian citizens lingering forlornly outside …
The Atlantic: “This one word has come to imply a single pandemic end point. Actually, we have no idea what happens next.By now, we’ve all heard some version of how this ends. The same story has certainly been told often enough: We missed our chance to wipe the new coronavirus out, and now we’re stuck …
Wired: “You’ve seen them a million times. You might be wearing one right now. But do you know how they work to block a potentially virus-carrying respiratory blob? It’s 2022, and by now we’ve all been wearing masks for nearly two years. And unless you are a surgeon or a construction worker who was already …
cnbc – “Creativity is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the better you’ll be at coming up with innovative solutions and ideas at work. One of the most effective ways do this is to train your brain to see and notice opportunities. Often you can find needs or problems hiding in plain sight …
“Inside Daily Brief – More Americans now say they are “not too happy” than “very happy” for the first time in the 50-year history of the General Social Survey. Typically, more than 30% of respondents say they are “very happy” and between 10% and 20% say they are “not too happy.” But, in 2021, 24% …
“U.S. Government Distribution of N95 Respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile: In January 2022, the U.S. government announced a program to distribute N95s to Americans from the Strategic National Stockpile. If you receive 3M N95 Respirators (sometimes referred to as “masks”) through this program, read through the information on this page to learn more about how to put …
Edgar, R.C., Taylor, J., Lin, V. et al. Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery. [Full text – Free] Nature (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04332-2: “Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their systematic exploration has been inhibited by a lack of efficient methods for searching this corpus, which (at the time of writing) exceeds …
Tech Republic: “Deloitte has released a report detailing the firm’s findings on work productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic, stating there was actually a “spike in productivity” during the lockdown period that occurred in 2020. Whereas employers pre-pandemic found it tough to quantify a worker’s output, the pandemic has ushered in a new era of setting …
TechRepublic: “It was a big year for cybercriminals, who made off with somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.5 billion worth of users’ personal identifying information (PII) in 2021, according to a report from threat intelligence company Black Kite. Black Kite looked at 81 third-party breaches that accounted for over 200 public disclosures, and its top …
Washington Post: “Gas-burning stoves in kitchens across America may pose a greater risk to the planet and public health than previously thought, new research suggests. The appliances release far more of the potent planet-warming gas methane than the Environmental Protection Agency estimates, Stanford University scientists found in a study published Thursday in the journal Environmental …
Washington Post: “Seeking to improve what has been among the nation’s grimmest public policy challenges, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg released a plan Thursday with the goal of reducing, and eventually eliminating, tens of thousands of annual road deaths. The Transportation Department strategy calls for following a “safe system” approach that emphasizes the inevitability of human …
WHYY – “Nearly a week after the Biden administration announced it will deploy 400 million free N95 masks to the public, the high-quality face coverings are starting to arrive at pharmacies and local grocery stores. “Every person is allowed up to 3 free masks pending availability,” the Department of Health and Human Services says. The …
