In nationwide demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd in police custody, protesters have been frequently pepper-sprayed or enveloped in clouds of tear gas. These crowd-control weapons are rarely lethal, but in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, there are strong calls for police to stop using these chemical irritants because they can damage […]
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As COVID-19 cases and fatalities surge around the world, a parallel surge of predictions and recommendations are competing for our attention. Commentators race to weigh in on this pandemic moment, eager to satisfy a pressing human need: facing an epidemic of both enormous consequence and enormous uncertainty, we all crave answers. We want to keep […]
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President Trump and other politicians have often criticized scientists like Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the frequent public face of science during COVID-19 times. While scientists widely agree on the severity of the disease and measures needed to combat it, some politicians, notably including the president, have not […]
There is still plenty we don’t know about COVID-19, but one fact is inescapable: African Americans are disproportionately represented among the dead. Although the numbers are incomplete, the non-profit APM Research Lab estimates that, as of May 27, the overall death rate from COVID-19 is 2.4 times greater for African Americans than it is for […]
There’s a lot of cash crawling on the sea floor. American lobsters bring in more money than any other U.S. fishery—a record $670 million in 2016, mostly through Maine and Massachusetts. The fishery relies on traditional lobster harvest techniques—a series of traps are dropped to the ocean floor with a long rope attached to a […]