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Hilary Rose, Steven Rose and Katherine L. Bryant Monthly Review
I think one’s got to look not at the technofix—you’ve got to look at the transformation of the way in which all of us live and ask how you move toward that in a time of gross inequality within and between nations.

Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics

The Editors of Scientific American Scientific American
Stopping deforestation will tamp down the spread of a long list of vicious diseases that have come from rain forest habitats—Zika, Nipah, malaria, cholera and HIV among them

Math in Music

Eugenia Cheng WFMT
Math and the inner workings of music can seem mysterious and intimidating. In this fun explainer series, Dr. Eugenia Cheng shows everyone a way in, enhancing our understanding and enjoyment of both music and math.

New Pathogen, Old Politics

Alex de Waal Boston Review
We should be wary of simplistic uses of history, but we can learn from the logic of social responses.

Covid-19: The Path to Treatment and Prevention

Ignacio López-Goñi The Conversation
An international consortium is racing to test three possible antiviral treatments for Covid-19 and 10 different vaccines. No one of these experiments is guaranteed to succeed, but the chances of finding one that will are high.

An Interactive Web-based Dashboard to Track COVID-19 in Real Time

Ensheng Dong, Hongru Du, Lauren Gardner Science Direct
In response to this ongoing public health emergency, we developed an online interactive dashboard, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, to visualise and track reported cases
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