Share this on WhatsApp Along with COVID-19, something else is spreading across America: conspiracy theories. In the dark alleys of the Internet, people have concocted a dizzying array of unfounded explanations for the pandemic. The phenomenon doesn’t surprise John Cook, a cognitive scientist at George Mason University. “When people feel threatened, when they feel out […]
Share this on WhatsApp Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf—a large ledge of ice, jutting out from the edge of the continent into the ocean—captured international attention in 2002. Over the course of just a few weeks, the ice shelf splintered, broke into pieces and collapsed entirely into the sea. Nearly 20 years later, it’s still […]
Share this on WhatsApp Public health interventions don’t just work during your run-of-the-mill pandemic. They are effective even when people are trying to kill you by using a disease outbreak as a genocidal weapon of mass destruction. A paper published on Friday in Science Advances reports on a sophisticated mathematical analysis that shows how personal […]