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Read More »Thousands flock to Wuhan pool party
Earlier this year, images of deserted streets in the Chinese city of Wuhan seemed remarkable to a world not yet familiar with the realities of lockdowns and social distance. This week, another set of photos of Wuhan went viral on social media, showing just how our world is dressed upside …
Read More »Heatwave in California: Climate change burns extreme weather
In the last few days, a moisture-laden heat wave has released extreme weather in almost every corner of California. In a single day, Northern California was hit with triple-digit temperatures, as well as hundreds of lightning strikes burning fires. The mercury hit 107 degrees on Sunday in Santa Cruz, known …
Read More »No, your phone does not have a ‘COVID-19 sensor’
Drag Facebook up, assuming you are still using it, and type “COVID-19 sensor” in the search bar. This should give you a list of public messages where people – not a small number of people, mind you – swore up and down that their phones were recently updated with a …
Read More »Intimate violence against partners spikes after COVID-19 lockdown
The toll of COVID-19 does not always show on the screen of a radiologist as injured lungs. These doctors who peer under the skin with the help of CT or MRI scans are seeing more and more evidence of physical abuse by these patients’ domestic partners as a result of …
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