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Ramez Naam
(Books: Nexus Series / The Infinite Resource. Teach @SingularityU. Climate / Energy Innovation Wonk. Optimist.)
The Washington Post
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Yasmeen Abutaleb
– Apr 4, 6:00 AM
By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see more of its people die than in the wars of Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
The New York Times
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Katrin Bennhold
– Apr 4, 4:22 AM
They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear, driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg to check on patients who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the coronavirus. They take a blood test, looking for signs…
The Washington Post
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Jon Swaine
– Apr 3, 10:28 AM
But HHS did not proceed with making the machine. The project was one of two N95 mask ventures — totaling $9.8 million — that the federal government embarked on over the past five years to better prepare for pandemics. The other…
The Financial Times
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The editorial board
– Apr 3, 9:42 AM
If there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that it has injected a sense of togetherness into polarised societies. But the virus, and the economic lockdowns needed to combat it, also shine a glaring light on existing inequalities…
The Financial Times
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Arundhati Roy
– Apr 3, 10:30 AM
Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead…
