Krista Tippett, host: Ezra Klein’s podcast is one of the few places I’ve been finding the political searching I’ve been looking for personally as a journalist and citizen. I’ve admired his willingness to stretch thoughtfully out of his comfort zone, with a real desire to understand aspects of…

The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes and sells products based off that information to clients in the finance, travel, and e-Commerce sectors. The contents of Edison users' inboxes are of particular interest to…

100+ Epsilon Theory PDF Download (paid subscription required): Body Count Lancet nCov2019 propagation model PDF Download (free): Lancet nCov2019 Model Over time, continual bad news will discourage any civilian population, and Americans had the lowest tolerance on the planet for bad news. Karl…

Summary: Virus death toll hits 902, vastly surpassing all of SARS (813) in only three weeks The number of global confirmed cases hits 40,553 in China (40,171) and offshore (382) WHO Director-General warns "we may only be seeing the tip of the iceberg" Exiled Chinese billionaire says true death toll…

Via Golem XIV's blog, Like every issue of consequence, in our Age of Incomprehension, opinion about the truth concerning the Corona virus outbreak is divided. Either China is taking all prudent steps, the virus, while transmissible, has a low mortality rate and the West, with its travel bans, is…

Chengdu, China I was not planning to end up in the middle of a coronavirus outbreak here in the People’s Republic of China for my long winter break. I had been planning on increasing my one-on-one language classes to five times a week for a few weeks, then jetting off to the beaches of Da Nang in…

This is China today: 2/6 #coronavirus In today’s Wuhan, forced quarantine is becoming a “Martial Law”. Another whole family was forced to go to quarantine center, where no medicine, no doctor, no water, no bathroom close by, no nothing is available. People won’t go no matter how good CCP painted❗️…

Read this stunning comment left by “Wyoming Doc,” a physician in Wyoming (whose name I know) whose wife is an immigrant from China: Has been a while since I last wrote anything. I have had the flu and have been home with my wife for the past several days. It has been fascinating. Our satellite TV…

WUHAN - The government of Hubei province, the central Chinese province that is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has given the official fatality rates for the virus for the first time, Chinese media reported. Unexpectedly, Wuhan, the provincial capital city where the virus first emerged,…

A new study by an international team of scientists led by astronomers at the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst Project (CHIME/FRB) in British Columbia has discovered that a mystery radio source in a galaxy some 500 million lightyears from our solar system is sending out…

To the Editor: The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from Wuhan is currently causing concern in the medical community as the virus is spreading around the world. Since its identification in late December 2019, the number of cases from China that have been imported into other countries is on the rise,…

‘Evacuate Now’ Alert Accidentally Sent Out In Six Northern Minnesota Counties

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, travelers pass through a health screening checkpoint at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan in southern China’s Hubei province. For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in ... more > SHANGHAI — For weeks after the first reports of…

You're probably aware that Google keeps tabs on what you're up to on its devices , apps, and services —but you might not realize just how far its tracking reach extends, into the places you go , the purchases you make , and much more. It's an extensive set of data, but you can take more control over…

Dave McCoy, a towering pioneer of the California ski industry, who with vision, hard work and a knack for the mechanical transformed a remote Sierra peak into the storied Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, has died. He was 104 . A notice of McCoy’s death posted Saturday afternoon on the Mammoth Mountain…

A view of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's headquarters in Singapore SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's central bank on Sunday said it had advised financial institutions in the city-state to take additional measures and precautions after the government raised its coronavirus alert level. Among…

The new coronavirus might have infected at least 500,000 people in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicenter of the global outbreak, by the time it peaks in coming weeks. But most of those people won’t know it. The typically bustling megacity, where the so-called 2019-nCoV virus emerged late last…

Five Britons have tested positive for coronavirus in eastern France, the French health minister has confirmed. Four adults and a child were diagnosed with the virus after coming into contact with a British national who recently returned from Singapore. The man returned to the UK on 28 January before…

It appears an effort to mask the danger of the coronavirus from the American people may be in play. This could be an attempt to protect Trump's all-important stock market rally. It has become very apparent that the President values the stock markets' constant move to newer highs as a reflection that…

The Defense Department is standing by to provide assistance to the Department of Health and Human Services to combat the coronavirus, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Rath Hoffman said today. Hoffman said DOD is housing 198 people at March Air Reserve Base, California, and has identified housing support…

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said Democrats are going to continue because they have policies that are so radical and don't have candidates who can beat Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FOX Business' 'Sunday Morning Futures.' "We have got to get Senate Judiciary…

Objectives “The Work” is a meditative technique that enables the identification and investigation of thoughts that cause an individual stress and suffering. Its core is comprised of four questions and turnarounds that enable the participant to experience a different interpretation of reality. We…

811 shares Issued on: 07/02/2020 - 16:33 Modified: 07/02/2020 - 16:34 French President Emmanuel Macron meets military officials at the Ecole Militaire, in Paris, France February 7, 2020. © Francois Mori/Pool via REUTERS Text by: Follow French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday unveiled his nuclear…

BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party faced public anger and recrimination Friday over the death of a doctor who was threatened by the authorities after trying to sound the alarm about the new coronavirus back in December. The death toll, meanwhile, rose to nearly 640, and the number of…

If Steve Bannon is correct (and I think he probably is), Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office; his real plan is far more devious and frightening. Bloomberg is investing a small fraction of his fortune (Bannon says it is now $70 billion) in a “leveraged buyout” of the…

London (CNN Business) Nearly two decades have passed since a coronavirus known as SARS emerged in China, killing hundreds of people and sparking panic that sent a chill through the global economy. The virus now rampaging across China could be much more damaging . China has become an indispensable…

On Monday, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) admitted that it did alter its forms and policies governing whistleblower complaints, and that it did so in response to the anti-Trump complaint filed on Aug. 12, 2019. The Federalist first reported the sudden changes last Friday. While…

If you’re worried about the Wuhan outbreak or feel unprepared, this guide is for you. Experts explain what you should do to get ready, how to protect yourself, what researchers believe are the likely scenarios going forward, and the latest fact-checked news. Always be skeptical of what you read…

At least one of every two instances of human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus is believed to occur while the first patient is not yet showing symptoms, according to an estimate by a group of Japanese university researchers. Based on its determination, the team, headed by Hokkaido…

In 2003, after SARS exploded what we knew about coronaviruses — that they were chiefly causes of the common cold and rarely caused severe infection — there were efforts to understand more about coronaviruses and as part of that effort viral discovery efforts were undertaken to uncover new…

I am asking this because as I look at the trajectory of this outbreak I am beginning to think that maybe this case count reflects large community-based transmission that has been ongoing for some time. I have thought that maybe the cluster at the seafood market was a “red herring” (pun intended) and…

Lately, one of the questions I’ve been asked is how I see the novel coronavirus outbreak ending. It is a complicated question that is hard to answer. One outcome that I think is worth exploring, as a thought experiment, is that the novel coronavirus outbreak ends with the virus become one of the…

W ith the new coronavirus spreading from person to person (possibly including from people without symptoms), reaching four continents, and traveling faster than SARS, driving it out of existence is looking increasingly unlikely. It’s still possible that quarantines and travel bans will first halt…

BEIJING: A US citizen who was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus and a Japanese man suspected to have the infection have both died in Wuhan. "We can confirm that a 60-year-old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Feb 6," an embassy spokesman told AFP on…

The Yaravirus (dark smudges) infects amoebae and has all novel genes. J. Abrahão and B. La Scola/IHU-Marseille/Microscopy Center UFMG-Belo Horizonte Viruses are some of the most mysterious organisms on Earth. They’re among the world’s tiniest lifeforms, and because none can survive and reproduce…

In recent years, many journalists — including myself — have noticed that culture journalism has suffered from a widespread loss of access to those who create the culture we write about, an essential component in producing a unique and compelling piece of journalism and/or criticism. The more time…

Credit: Getty Images It’s never an easy business to predict which flu viruses will make people sick the following winter. And there’s reason to believe two of the four choices made last winter for this upcoming season’s vaccine could be off the mark. Twice a year influenza experts meet at the World…

A week ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed what people have been suspecting: This flu season is one of the worst in recent memory. It’s on track to match the 2014-2015 season in which 34 million Americans got the flu, and about 56,000 people—including 148 children—died. One…

There's a deadly virus spreading throughout China right now, but Self magazine has a calming message for Americans: "For perspective," the publication tweeted Thursday, "the flu is a bigger threat in the US." This was just the latest in an epic run of such comparisons: “The virus killing US kids…