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On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science

Editors, The Scientific American Scientific American
On an individual basis, the most powerful action you can take to protect science is to vote out of office a president who is trying to gut it—and to encourage people you know to do likewise, especially in the battleground states.

The Evolving Science of the Coronavirus and Children

Apoorva Mandavilli, Robin McKie The New York Times
Three articles. Researchers are finding that children of all ages become infected and spread the virus to others but that children do respond differently immunologically to this virus, and it seems to be protecting the kids.

Friday Nite Videos | September 25, 2020

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How Trump Plans to Win No Matter What. Drive-By Truckers | 21st Century USA. RBG Crowd Greets Trump With 'Vote Him Out!'. 113 Reasons REPUBLICANS Aren't Voting for Trump in 2020. P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo.

The Networks of Women Behind the Polio Vaccine

Stephanie Martin Lady Science
The polio vaccine highlights the networks of women—some scientists, some not, some named, and some not—who made the laborious, costly, and difficult work of vaccine development possible.

California’s Apocalyptic ‘Second Nature’

Mike Davis Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Lake Fire in California Fire in the Anthropocene has become the physical equivalent of endless nuclear war. A new, profoundly sinister nature is rapidly emerging from our fire rubble at the expense of landscapes we once considered sacred.

Climate Change Is Worsening California's Hellish Wildfires

Dana Nuccitelli Yale Climate Connections
It's exacerbating hot, dry conditions allowing wildfires to spread farther and faster. Demographic and forest management factors alone are insufficient to explain the magnitude of the observed increase in wildfire extent over the past half-century.
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