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HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might make it a betterone.
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A GALACTIC ARCHAEOLOGIST DIGS INTO THE MILKY WAY’S HISTORY Amina Helmi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in Groningen, the Netherlands, is a leading galactic archaeologist studying these remnants of past events, including the most momentous one: a massive, slow-motion impact with another galaxy that occurred some 10 billion years ago, in the Milky Way’s youth. HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. 7 WAYS TO FIX THIS PANDEMIC 6)To mitigate the effect of any infectious disease, rapid testing that provides results in hours (or even minutes), not days, would make all the difference. If such testing were widespread, the world would look very different right now: People could go to work and school, and maybe even visit relatives in nursing homes. HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. TREATING SLEEP APNEA WITH PILLS INSTEAD OF MACHINES Treating sleep apnea with pills instead of machines. The disorder has several different causes, researchers are learning. That finding opens the door for personalized therapies — and perhaps even effective drugs. My wife’s father, like many who suffer from restless sleep, was long in denial. For years he has slumbered in fits and starts KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 1 day ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might makeit a better one.
HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. THE WHEN OF EATING: THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTERMITTENT FASTING The timing of eating matters for body weight and health, studies are starting to suggest. Though the research is still mixed, heavily animal-dependent and often hard to parse, the literature shows significant potential benefits from fasting every other day or so — or, on a daily basis, eating only when we would normally be awake, within a window of 12 hours or fewer, a practice known as time THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 1 day ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might makeit a better one.
WWW.KNOWABLEMAGAZINE.ORGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE www.knowablemagazine.org HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD Dr. García Coll studies how social and cultural factors influence child and adolescent development, focusing on at-risk and minority populations. Her expertise includes immigrant youths, ethnic minority children and bilingualism. Her career has focused on the championing of ethnic and racial minority youth development, with an emphasis onde
VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY Viruses that come to stay. Some linger in the body for a lifetime. The one causing Covid-19 probably isn’t one of them, but it and others can create mischief long after the immune system appears to HOW ONLINE MISINFORMATION SPREADS How online misinformation spreads. Misinformation is running rampant. To slow this infodemic, researchers are tracking how it spreads on social media. You may have heard the outlandish claim: Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to implant AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM AND OUR COLLECTIVE CRISIS American individualism and our collective crisis. Our national and social identity is deeply rooted in values like freedom, equality and order. A political scientist explores how these ideas have affected the US response to the worsening pandemic. By Anil Ananthaswamy 12.01.2020. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. THE WHEN OF EATING: THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTERMITTENT FASTING The timing of eating matters for body weight and health, studies are starting to suggest. Though the research is still mixed, heavily animal-dependent and often hard to parse, the literature shows significant potential benefits from fasting every other day or so — or, on a daily basis, eating only when we would normally be awake, within a window of 12 hours or fewer, a practice known as time AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS The brain, the criminal and the courts. States of mind that the legal system cares about — memory, responsibility and mental maturity — have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 1 day ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might makeit a better one.
HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 1 day ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might makeit a better one.
HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 1 day ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might makeit a better one.
WWW.KNOWABLEMAGAZINE.ORGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE www.knowablemagazine.org HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD Dr. García Coll studies how social and cultural factors influence child and adolescent development, focusing on at-risk and minority populations. Her expertise includes immigrant youths, ethnic minority children and bilingualism. Her career has focused on the championing of ethnic and racial minority youth development, with an emphasis onde
VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY Viruses that come to stay. Some linger in the body for a lifetime. The one causing Covid-19 probably isn’t one of them, but it and others can create mischief long after the immune system appears to HOW ONLINE MISINFORMATION SPREADS How online misinformation spreads. Misinformation is running rampant. To slow this infodemic, researchers are tracking how it spreads on social media. You may have heard the outlandish claim: Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to implant AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM AND OUR COLLECTIVE CRISIS American individualism and our collective crisis. Our national and social identity is deeply rooted in values like freedom, equality and order. A political scientist explores how these ideas have affected the US response to the worsening pandemic. By Anil Ananthaswamy 12.01.2020. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. THE WHEN OF EATING: THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTERMITTENT FASTING The timing of eating matters for body weight and health, studies are starting to suggest. Though the research is still mixed, heavily animal-dependent and often hard to parse, the literature shows significant potential benefits from fasting every other day or so — or, on a daily basis, eating only when we would normally be awake, within a window of 12 hours or fewer, a practice known as time AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS The brain, the criminal and the courts. States of mind that the legal system cares about — memory, responsibility and mental maturity — have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 22 hours ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might make it a better one. HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 22 hours ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might make it a better one. HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. HOW HEALTH INSURANCE IS FARING UNDER COVID About 158 million Americans, including workers and their dependents, obtained health insurance through an employer in 2019. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic, sending the nation’s unemployment rate to a historic high of 14.8 percent in April 2020. The rate remains elevated — 6.7 percent as of December — compared with pre-pandemic levels. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS THE PROMISE AND PERILS OF LIFE LIVED ONLINE 22 hours ago · Reset. The promise and perils of life lived online. The pandemic has immersed us faster and deeper in immersive communication technologies. It’s a disrupted, confusing, sometimes exhausting world — but shifting both the tech and our expectations might make it a better one. WWW.KNOWABLEMAGAZINE.ORGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE www.knowablemagazine.org HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD Dr. García Coll studies how social and cultural factors influence child and adolescent development, focusing on at-risk and minority populations. Her expertise includes immigrant youths, ethnic minority children and bilingualism. Her career has focused on the championing of ethnic and racial minority youth development, with an emphasis onde
VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY Viruses that come to stay. Some linger in the body for a lifetime. The one causing Covid-19 probably isn’t one of them, but it and others can create mischief long after the immune system appears to HOW ONLINE MISINFORMATION SPREADS How online misinformation spreads. Misinformation is running rampant. To slow this infodemic, researchers are tracking how it spreads on social media. You may have heard the outlandish claim: Bill Gates is using the Covid-19 vaccine to implant AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM AND OUR COLLECTIVE CRISIS American individualism and our collective crisis. Our national and social identity is deeply rooted in values like freedom, equality and order. A political scientist explores how these ideas have affected the US response to the worsening pandemic. By Anil Ananthaswamy 12.01.2020. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. THE WHEN OF EATING: THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTERMITTENT FASTING The timing of eating matters for body weight and health, studies are starting to suggest. Though the research is still mixed, heavily animal-dependent and often hard to parse, the literature shows significant potential benefits from fasting every other day or so — or, on a daily basis, eating only when we would normally be awake, within a window of 12 hours or fewer, a practice known as time AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. THE BRAIN, THE CRIMINAL AND THE COURTS The brain, the criminal and the courts. States of mind that the legal system cares about — memory, responsibility and mental maturity — have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY COVID JOB LOSS: THE CAUSE OF THE NEXT EPIDEMIC? In the first six months of Covid-19, 25 percent of US adults said they or someone in their household lost their job due to the pandemic. Among those who said they lost a job, half reported they were still unemployed six months later. As researchers who study the health effects of job loss and unemployment, we are concerned that the next wave of health problems linked to Covid will not come HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut COULD FASTING OR KETONE DIETS HELP QUASH CANCER? In 2003, his group reported that giving mice with brain tumors called astrocytomas a calorie-restricted low-carb ketogenic diet for 13 days slowed tumor growth by as much as 80 percent. The lower the blood sugar levels and the higher the blood ketone levels, the greater the effect. Seyfried also hypothesized that because starving the cancer KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a KIDS OF THE COVID GENERATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Young kids who’d been toilet-trained started having accidents again. The problems were worse if several family members and friends had died, or if the family atmosphere was gloomy, violent or unsupportive. But after 17 years had passed, the researchers studying these children found that most of them had recovered. PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY COVID JOB LOSS: THE CAUSE OF THE NEXT EPIDEMIC? In the first six months of Covid-19, 25 percent of US adults said they or someone in their household lost their job due to the pandemic. Among those who said they lost a job, half reported they were still unemployed six months later. As researchers who study the health effects of job loss and unemployment, we are concerned that the next wave of health problems linked to Covid will not come HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut COULD FASTING OR KETONE DIETS HELP QUASH CANCER? In 2003, his group reported that giving mice with brain tumors called astrocytomas a calorie-restricted low-carb ketogenic diet for 13 days slowed tumor growth by as much as 80 percent. The lower the blood sugar levels and the higher the blood ketone levels, the greater the effect. Seyfried also hypothesized that because starving the cancer WWW.KNOWABLEMAGAZINE.ORGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE www.knowablemagazine.org BUILDING A BETTER EDIBLE Building a better edible. Foods and beverages containing cannabis are popular, but probing their effects is difficult. Scientists are scouring existing studies and knowledge from nutrition research to learn how these products interact with the body. EFFECTS OF THE PANDEMIC ON THE DEVELOPING CHILD Dr. García Coll studies how social and cultural factors influence child and adolescent development, focusing on at-risk and minority populations. Her expertise includes immigrant youths, ethnic minority children and bilingualism. Her career has focused on the championing of ethnic and racial minority youth development, with an emphasis onde
PANDEMIC PUTS ALL EYES ON PUBLIC HEALTH Pandemic puts all eyes on public health. Covid-19 has exposed the weak spots of the US public health system — and that presents an opportunity, says an epidemiologist, for the nation to recognize the problems and act to fix them. By Lola Butcher 11.17.2020. HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. YES, ALL THIS SCREEN TIME IS HURTING YOUR EYES Yes, all this screen time is hurting your eyes. OPINION: A neuroscientist says that he’s particularly worried about kids, who may have spent much of last year learning online. Some easy hacks can help. There’s no way around it: Since the pandemic began, people around the world, of all ages, are spending lots more time looking atscreens.
HOW ENLISTING DENTISTS CAN SPEED UP COVID-19 VACCINATIONS Even as the Biden administration has upped its Covid-19 vaccine goal to 1.5 million per day, early reports say vaccination rates are lagging in hard-hit Black and Latino communities. On both fronts, America’s dentists can help. Dental professionals — dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants — have been responding to the pandemic from the outset, even as many practices were shut HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. TREATING SLEEP APNEA WITH PILLS INSTEAD OF MACHINES Treating sleep apnea with pills instead of machines. The disorder has several different causes, researchers are learning. That finding opens the door for personalized therapies — and perhaps even effective drugs. My wife’s father, like many who suffer from restless sleep, was long in denial. For years he has slumbered in fits and starts KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. FIGHTING CRIME WITH STATISTICS The total annual cost of crime in the United States probably exceeds $1 trillion (estimates are imperfect). Most of that cost falls on crime victims (property loss, medical expense, lost wages). Governments in the US spend well over $200 billion a year coping with crime. Yet, Ridgeway and others contend, those vast publicexpenditures are
SNOT WHAT YOU THINK: THE UNKNOWN TOLL OF CHRONIC SINUS Beyond stuffed sinuses, sinusitis sufferers endure a constellation of symptoms, from disturbed sleep and fatigue to dizziness, coughing, popping ears, tooth pain and a lost sense of smell. Most people experience acute sinusitis, in which the sinus tissues become briefly inflamed, perhaps from a cold or allergies. SCIENTISTS LOOK TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO MAKE FOOD SAFER CREDIT: B.A. NIEMIRA / AR FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2012. A plume of cold plasma offers a new way to sanitize meat, poultry, fruits, vegetables and other foods without heat. Although new to food processing, cold plasma has been used for years to process products such as textiles, glass, electronics and paper. BAD BOSSES: DEALING WITH ABUSIVE SUPERVISORS Simply reducing contact with a bad boss can do wonders for your work-day and your mental health. Sutton recommends being slow to respond to emails, cutting back on face-to-face meetings, and generally keeping a safe distance. “It’s like the boss is kryptonite,” he says. Take the long view. KNOWABLE MAGAZINEHEALTH & DISEASELIVING WORLDPHYSICAL WORLDSOCIETYFOOD & ENVIRONMENTTECHNOLOGY Knowable Magazine. Society. It’s time for a government reset — and the ideas are flourishing. It started with thinking about sustainability. But after the many traumas of the past year, a lot of people are determined to make some fundamental changes in the machinery of governance. By M. Mitchell Waldrop. HOW TO CONVINCE PEOPLE TO ACCEPT A COVID-19 VACCINE How to convince people to accept a Covid-19 vaccine. Hesitancy rates are falling but they’re still sizable, especially among certain groups. Easy access and trusted community messengers are keys to moving the needle. The most common strategy for a PANDEMICS IN RECENT HISTORY 2014-16: Ebola The severe disease is transmitted from wild animals such as fruit bats, its natural hosts.Contact with fluids and tissues of infected people spreads it to others. The virus was identified after 1970s outbreaks near rainforests in Central Africa; the 2014-2016 outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest ever, killing 11,310 people among the 28,616 recorded cases. VIRUSES THAT COME TO STAY HOW THE PANDEMIC COULD CHANGE ARCHITECTURE How the pandemic could change architecture. COMIC: Covid-19 has inspired a rethink of how we design and use our built environments. By Greg Miller Illustrated by Joyce Rice 03.01.2021. Help us make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Support free, HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. FIGHTING CRIME WITH STATISTICS The total annual cost of crime in the United States probably exceeds $1 trillion (estimates are imperfect). Most of that cost falls on crime victims (property loss, medical expense, lost wages). Governments in the US spend well over $200 billion a year coping with crime. Yet, Ridgeway and others contend, those vast publicexpenditures are
SNOT WHAT YOU THINK: THE UNKNOWN TOLL OF CHRONIC SINUS Beyond stuffed sinuses, sinusitis sufferers endure a constellation of symptoms, from disturbed sleep and fatigue to dizziness, coughing, popping ears, tooth pain and a lost sense of smell. Most people experience acute sinusitis, in which the sinus tissues become briefly inflamed, perhaps from a cold or allergies. SCIENTISTS LOOK TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO MAKE FOOD SAFER CREDIT: B.A. NIEMIRA / AR FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2012. A plume of cold plasma offers a new way to sanitize meat, poultry, fruits, vegetables and other foods without heat. Although new to food processing, cold plasma has been used for years to process products such as textiles, glass, electronics and paper. BAD BOSSES: DEALING WITH ABUSIVE SUPERVISORS Simply reducing contact with a bad boss can do wonders for your work-day and your mental health. Sutton recommends being slow to respond to emails, cutting back on face-to-face meetings, and generally keeping a safe distance. “It’s like the boss is kryptonite,” he says. Take the long view. WWW.KNOWABLEMAGAZINE.ORG www.knowablemagazine.org HOW WE MAKE DECISIONS DURING A PANDEMIC How we make decisions during a pandemic. From mask wearing to physical distancing, individuals wield a lot of power in how the coronavirus outbreak plays out. Behavioral experts reveal what might be prompting people to act — or not. With many states and towns lifting strict stay-at-home orders, people are faced with a growing number of new BUILDING A BETTER EDIBLE Building a better edible. Foods and beverages containing cannabis are popular, but probing their effects is difficult. Scientists are scouring existing studies and knowledge from nutrition research to learn how these products interact with the body. HOW WE BURY OUR DEAD DURING A PANDEMIC How we bury our dead during a pandemic. Funerals, burials and other ways of communally commemorating those who have died have always been part of human history. The need for social distancing has upended these psychologically important rituals and fostered creative alternatives. By Stephanie Parker 09.24.2020. PANDEMIC PUTS ALL EYES ON PUBLIC HEALTH Pandemic puts all eyes on public health. Covid-19 has exposed the weak spots of the US public health system — and that presents an opportunity, says an epidemiologist, for the nation to recognize the problems and act to fix them. By Lola Butcher 11.17.2020. AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGE An old problem: How immune responses weaken with age. The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens. By Jonathan Wosen 04.01.2020. AMERICA THE UNHEALTHY: INEQUALITY KILLS That gap causes an enormous amount of stress in our society — road rage, air rage, stress at work, child abuse. I say stress is the 21st century tobacco. We have learned that inequality kills. People in Japan live longer than those of any other country, an average of 84.5years.
UNDER-DIAGNOSED AND UNDER-TREATED, GIRLS WITH ADHD FACE Under-diagnosed and under-treated, girls with ADHD face distinct risks. It took a long time to figure out how attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder presents in girls and women and the problems it can create. A pioneering study helped change that, but the condition is still often missed. By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 04.17.2020.THE WORKOUT DRUG
The workout drug. As researchers learn more about how exercise fights chronic ills like heart disease and diabetes, doctors may soon be able to treat physical activity as the powerful medicine it is. Exercise is good for you. That’s hardly news: People who exercise tend to have longer, healthier lives. WHAT MAKES A TREE A TREE? Part of what makes a tree a tree is the ability to make wood, a process that originates with the band of cells called the vascular cambium, seen here between the bark (blue, outer cells) and wood (whitish middle bands of cells). CREDIT: BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COLLEGEBIOSCIENCE IMAGE
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WHAT IS A CYTOKINE STORM? An immune reaction gone wild seems to be linked with the most severe cases of pandemic Covid-19. Here’s what happens.Health & Disease
CLOSING IN ON THE NEW CORONAVIRUS The eye-catching spikes sticking out from the surface of SARS-CoV-2 may inspire new ways to prevent or treat Covid-19 infectionsHealth & Disease
DIGITAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE: TRACKING A PANDEMIC Social media posts and online searches may offer vital clues about the spread of influenza — and now Covid-19. But they also risk errors and threaten privacy. OTHER CORONAVIRUS COVERAGEThe Mind
UNDER-DIAGNOSED AND UNDER-TREATED, GIRLS WITH ADHD FACE DISTINCT RISKS It took a long time to figure out how attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder presents in girls and women and the problems it can create. A pioneering study helped change that, but the condition is still oftenmissed.
By Rodrigo Pérez OrtegaHealth & Disease
CHASING THE GENES BEHIND PAIN New treatments for chronic pain face a long road despite promising developments. Research in people with rare diseases is pointing the way to genes that influence how we experience pain — and might leadto new medications.
By Stephani SutherlandHealth & Disease
INFECTIOUS DISEASE: MAKING — AND BREAKING — THE ANIMAL CONNECTIONBy Tim Vernimmen
We know pathogens from other species can endanger us. Scientists are better equipped than ever to do something about it, but politicalbuy-in is crucial.
Living World
INSIDE THE FERTILITY CLINIC FOR FROGS | THINGS TO KNOW Video by Eliene Augenbraun VIDEO: How scientists are using assisted reproduction technology to help amphibian species in troubleHealth & Disease
WHAT IS A CYTOKINE STORM?By Amber Dance
An immune reaction gone wild seems to be linked with the most severe cases of pandemic Covid-19. Here’s what happens.Technology
THE SILENCE OF THE OWLSBy Dana Mackenzie
No one knows exactly how the nocturnal hunters manage their whisper-soft flight, yet it is inspiring the design of quieter airplanes, fans and wind turbinesSociety
THE COMPLEXITIES OF A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOMEBy Ramin Skibba
It’s a hot topic under political debate: providing cash grants as a social safety net. Small programs hint at how it might work — or not — on a national scale.Health & Disease
AN OLD PROBLEM: HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES WEAKEN WITH AGEBy Jonathan Wosen
The body’s defenses lose flexibility and diversity over time, and protective responses to vaccines weaken as well. Scientists are working on ways to boost seniors’ protections against influenza, the novel coronavirus and other pathogens.Health & Disease
DIGITAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE: TRACKING A PANDEMIC By Katherine Ellison Social media posts and online searches may offer vital clues about the spread of influenza — and now Covid-19. But they also risk errors and threaten privacy.The Mind
PSYCHOTHERAPY ON THE COUCH By Katherine Ellison Studies show talk therapy works, but experts disagree about _how_ it does so. Finding the answer could help professionals and patients.Living World
LIFE’S LITTLE OSCILLATIONSBy Adam Mann
A bevy of intricate biochemical fluctuations inside cells rule the natural world. Scientists are trying to figure out how they all work.Health & Disease
CLOSING IN ON THE NEW CORONAVIRUSBy Tim Vernimmen
The eye-catching spikes sticking out from the surface of SARS-CoV-2 may inspire new ways to prevent or treat Covid-19 infectionsTechnology
SYNTHETIC MEDIA: THE REAL TROUBLE WITH DEEPFAKES By M. Mitchell Waldrop Keeping on top of manipulated videos and images is no easy feat. Scientists trace the roots of their proliferation, dig up new techniques to counter digital forgeries and warn of the growingdangers ahead.
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The Mind
TREATING THE GROWING TRAUMA OF FAMILY SEPARATION War, disasters, trafficking and immigration are tearing millions of children from their parents all around the world. A psychologist explores how to help them recover.Society
WHY REAL-LIFE PLACES STILL MATTER IN THE AGE OF TEXTING AND TWITTER Interactions in physical spaces, whether around the watercooler or at the neighborhood bar, are crucial to forming social tiesTechnology
ROBOTS DESIGNED TO SELF-CONSTRUCT Robot researcher Mark Yim offers a look inside the promising field of modular reconfigurable robotics — bots that can shift form to tacklean array of tasks
Living World
WHAT DO GENES DO? | THINGS TO KNOW VIDEO: Scientists have captured live video of parts of the most fundamental event in biology — cells reading and copying DNA instructions to make proteinsPhysical World
NEW PROJECTS BROADEN THE SEARCH FOR ALIEN SIGNALS FROM SPACE A longer list of Earth-like planets, eavesdropping on radio waves and looking for laser light shows: All raise the chances of detecting E.T.By Tom Siegfried
Society
THE 2020 CENSUS HAS ARRIVED. HERE’S WHY THE POPULATION COUNTMATTERS.
Written by Andy Warner COMIC: Written into the US Constitution, the decadal tally has always started arguments. But it is also fundamental to governing.Society
WHEN COURTROOM SCIENCE GOES WRONG — AND HOW STATS CAN FIX IT Story by Regina Nuzzo and Illustrated by Maki Naro COMIC: Bite marks, shoe prints, crime-scene fibers: Matches to suspects are often far shakier than courtroom experts claim. Better statistical methods — among them, a little beast known as the “likelihood ratio” — can cut down on wrong convictions.Living World
THE MONARCH’S STUPENDOUS MIGRATION, DISSECTED Story by Tim Vernimmen and Illustrated by Maki Naro COMIC: The feisty orange-black butterfly uses a toolbox of biological tricks to find its way down to Mexico for winter and flap north again in spring. Here’s how scientists figured out those tricks — and what they don’t yet understand.Sustainability
THE SOIL SOLUTION
By Laura Poppick
Policymakers, entrepreneurs and farmers are increasingly looking to soils in their fight to slow climate changeSustainability
WHAT MAKES FOOD ‘LOCAL’?By Stephanie Parker
More people are choosing what to eat based on where it was grown, made or created. An anthropologist looks at the myriad ways we link food to place — and whether it really could make a difference.Technology
WHEN NUCLEAR GOES RETRO | THINGS TO KNOW VIDEO: Old becomes new as nuclear startups take another look at using liquid nuclear fuel as a safe alternative to conventional nuclearreactors
Living World
HOW HUMANS SHIFT FISH EVOLUTION | THINGS TO KNOW VIDEO: By targeting larger individuals, intense fishing may lead to a fishery dominated by the small Video by Tien NguyenPhysical World
OUT OF ANTARCTICA, CHURNINGS OF CLIMATE CHANGE The interplay of carbon dioxide, winds and Southern Ocean waters could be reaching an environmental tipping point By Anil Ananthaswamy SUPPORT KNOWABLE MAGAZINEDonate
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